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Medical Xpress / Mimicry connects smokers and can make quitting difficult

Going out for a smoke together and mimicking behaviors associated with smoking can double tobacco consumption and make quitting more difficult. Researchers from SWPS University examined mimicry as a "social glue" in interactions ...

Aug 28, 2026
Medical Xpress / How much the immune system sees may shape how well we fight infections

Why does the same infection cause only mild symptoms in one person but more serious disease in another? A new study led by the HUN-REN BRC Szeged Momentum Systems Immunology Research Group, together with several international ...

Aug 26, 2026
Tech Xplore / Multiple cameras can better track a person's identity using geometry and appearance

By combining two complementary clues—camera geometry and visual appearance—researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan, developed a new approach for preserving identities across multiple cameras. The method uses ...

Aug 28, 2026
Phys.org / Less buying power, elevated inflation push down consumer views

Consumer sentiment dropped about 6% from last month, landing around 11% below a year ago amid continued worries that inflation will remain elevated for the foreseeable future, according to the University of Michigan Surveys ...

Aug 28, 2026
Phys.org / Looking into the eyes of gibbons: New noninvasive eye-tracking study features these little-studied apes

When you look at someone, you usually look at their face. It serves as one of the most important sources of social information in primates, so the evolution of face perception has attracted considerable scientific attention. ...

Aug 26, 2026
Medical Xpress / First evidence of mirror-like activity found in individual human neurons

In the early 1990s, researchers studying nonhuman primates discovered a population of brain cells they called "mirror neurons." These specialized brain cells fired when the animal performed an action and also when the animal ...

Aug 25, 2026
Phys.org / Naked photobombing comet found in public image

Sometimes images are released before anyone realizes they have been photobombed, meaning something unexpected showed up in the background. A team of researchers found a naked photobombing comet in publicly available archival ...

Aug 25, 2026
Medical Xpress / How pregnancy itself drives deadly hepatitis E outcomes

Researchers have uncovered a biological mechanism that helps explain why hepatitis E virus infections can be especially severe—and often fatal—during pregnancy, finding that normal pregnancy-related hormonal changes inadvertently ...

Aug 26, 2026
Tech Xplore / Who does AI consider an expert? New benchmark shows bias across 22 LLMs

AI chatbots powered by large language models (LLMs) are widely used as recommender systems. While accelerating access to information, AI can also give factually incorrect responses or propagate societal biases.

Aug 24, 2026
Medical Xpress / Doctors and scientists race to understand a rising form of heart failure

Approximately 3 million people in the United States are living with a condition called heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, or HFpEF. The number of people with this form of heart failure, which is more common in ...

Aug 24, 2026
Tech Xplore / Recycled aggregates can match structural concrete strength

A new study challenges one of the most deeply rooted assumptions in civil engineering: that using recycled materials in structural concrete inevitably means sacrificing strength. Researchers from Escuela Superior Politécnica ...

Aug 28, 2026
Phys.org / Fossil-fuel carbon fingerprint reaches the deep North Atlantic

The use of fossil fuels alters both the concentration and the carbon isotope composition of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Since surface water exchanges carbon dioxide with the atmosphere, this also alters the isotopic ...

Aug 26, 2026