All News

Medical Xpress / Pentagon drops flu vaccine requirement for US military

Flu shots will no longer be required for every U.S. service member.

Apr 22, 2026
Medical Xpress / Cardiorespiratory fitness may cut dementia, depression and psychosis risk

Many studies carried out over the past decades have explored the relationship between mental and physical health, showing that the two are often interlinked. One well-established indicator of overall physical health is cardiorespiratory ...

Apr 19, 2026
Phys.org / Penguin muscle map reveals how waddles and underwater 'flight' both work

Penguins may look charmingly awkward on land, but new research shows their bodies are finely tuned for powerful, efficient movement both on land and underwater. A team of anatomists from Midwestern University, in collaboration ...

Apr 21, 2026
Medical Xpress / Fixed or flexible? Study shows vision-related neurons can rapidly switch codes

For many years, a dominant view in neuroscience was that neurons in the inferotemporal (IT) cortex—a critical center in the brain for the recognition of objects—represent the world through fixed tuning functions. Doris Tsao ...

Apr 22, 2026
Phys.org / A laser inspired by black holes: Extreme physics recreated in the lab

Researchers from Bar-Ilan University have successfully recreated key features of black hole physics in a laboratory setting using an innovative optical system that mimics how black holes behave after violent cosmic events ...

Apr 21, 2026
Medical Xpress / New clues to hepatitis B species restriction could help build a novel model for studying infection

Some 254 million people live with a chronic hepatitis B (HBV) infection that is often asymptomatic for decades, only to emerge in an advanced stage of disease that turns to fatal cirrhosis or liver cancer in nearly a million ...

Apr 22, 2026
Phys.org / Rose pangenome maps 55,000 genes, opening new path for breeding

Roses are among the most economically significant ornamental plants worldwide, with widespread applications in the cut flowers, garden, and cosmetics industries. Yet fewer than 10% of rose species have contributed to modern ...

Apr 21, 2026
Phys.org / Perovskite quantum dots crack two big barriers, staying stable in polar solvents and growing with atomic precision

Perovskite quantum dots are considered promising materials for LEDs, photocatalysis, and future quantum light sources. Researchers at LMU Munich have managed to master two major hurdles in working with these quantum dots: ...

Apr 21, 2026
Medical Xpress / How a tiny circle of repeat offenders poisoned 100s of gold-standard medical trials for over a decade

Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are the gold standard of medical research as random assignment approach helps eliminate bias and yields the most reliable evidence on whether a treatment truly works. Since RCTs sit at ...

Apr 17, 2026
Medical Xpress / Plug-and-play AI recognizes 18 cancer types from just a handful of slides

A research team led by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed a pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) pathology analysis system that can accurately recognize multiple types of cancer using ...

Apr 21, 2026
Tech Xplore / Tiny 'light-concentrating' particles boost terahertz technology, study shows

Scientists have found a way to boost terahertz technology using particles thousands of times smaller than a grain of sand. Research published in Scientific Reports by Loughborough University's Emergent Photonics Research ...

Apr 21, 2026
Medical Xpress / COVID antiviral speeds recovery but doesn't reduce hospitalization in vaccinated patients, trials find

Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir-ritonavir) does not reduce hospital admissions or deaths in vaccinated adults at higher risk of severe COVID-19, despite helping them recover faster, according to results from two national trials published ...

Apr 22, 2026