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Medical Xpress / No safe tan: Why Canada's sunburn problem keeps getting worse

Scroll through social media and you will encounter a strange vocabulary for an old impulse: "tanmaxxing," "UV chasing" and "SPF shunning." In some corners of the internet, sunscreen is described as toxic, while a "natural" ...

Aug 27, 2026
Medical Xpress / Egyptian group developing Ebola vaccine

An Egyptian pharmaceutical firm is developing a potential vaccine against the deadly Ebola strain raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), it announced Thursday.

Aug 27, 2026
Medical Xpress / New approach to mental health care reduces hospital admissions

A new approach to caring for people experiencing a mental health crisis, emphasizing continuity and community, can reduce hospital admissions and improve satisfaction with care, a study led by a University College London ...

Aug 27, 2026
Tech Xplore / Cracking the packing code: New models incorporate item priority, location and weight distribution

Packing isn't just about fitting everything into a certain space—it's also about being able to retrieve important items quickly and correctly. In a pair of new studies, researchers from North Carolina State University developed ...

Aug 27, 2026
Medical Xpress / Vagus nerve stimulation hints at a vascular pathway to support long-term learning

Do you ever feel like sometimes you can master a new dance step almost immediately, while other times you struggle to nail it despite repeated practice? This might be due to skill or effort, but also to something less obvious: ...

Aug 26, 2026
Phys.org / Does envy influence the way we vote?

Envy plays a greater role when resources are allocated through majority voting than when we make decisions individually. This is shown by new research from Linköping University, Sweden. According to the researchers, the explanation ...

Aug 27, 2026
Phys.org / Light particles reveal critical scaling in a two-dimensional photon gas

A team of researchers from the University of Bonn, Heidelberg University and the National Autonomous University of Mexico has studied the critical behavior of light particles (photons) close to a phase transition. This critical ...

Aug 27, 2026
Phys.org / Using plutonium to probe the universe: Magneto‑ν experiment advances dark matter and neutrino research

Astronomers can't see dark matter directly, but they know it's there: Its gravity shapes galaxies and the large-scale structure of the cosmos. In an effort to uncover the composition of this hidden mass, a team at Lawrence ...

Aug 25, 2026
Medical Xpress / First-in-human pilot trial improves stem cell collection and delivery for sickle cell gene therapy

Patients with sickle cell disease are often hesitant to undergo transformative gene therapy—the current lengthy process requires multiple hospital visits to collect enough stem cells. Researchers from Boston Children's Hospital ...

Aug 25, 2026
Phys.org / Why ancient grasslands, once plowed, don't grow back the same

When a 10,000-year-old prairie is plowed up to plant corn or a savanna is consumed by a strip mall, these once-grassy expanses, if left to regrow, can eventually look vaguely like they did before. But a growing body of research ...

Aug 24, 2026
Phys.org / Overconfident CEOs more likely to expose businesses to risk

Companies led by overconfident chief executives are potentially more exposed to political and regulatory risks because they engage in significantly less corporate lobbying, according to University of Queensland research.

Aug 27, 2026
Phys.org / Mystery statue unearthed at Sardis archaeological dig

Researchers with the long-running Harvard–Cornell Archaeological Exploration of Sardis have unearthed a larger-than-life statue estimated to be nearly 2,500 years old.

Aug 24, 2026