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Phys.org / In Chile, injured penguins sport copper vests to help them heal

Researchers in Chile have designed an unlikely new garment for injured penguins—snug red vests threaded with copper and zinc that they hope will help the aquatic birds heal faster.

Sep 3, 2026
Tech Xplore / Your smartwatch may not be as smart as you think

Smartwatches can provide useful health information, but many of those numbers are algorithmic estimates rather than direct measurements of the body, and some outputs are more accurate than others, a new University of Michigan ...

Sep 3, 2026
Tech Xplore / Apple faces £2 billion lawsuit in UK over app privacy feature

Apple faces a £2 billion ($2.7 billion) lawsuit brought by UK app developers who on Thursday accused the U.S. tech giant of giving its own advertising services an unfair advantage by imposing tougher privacy rules on third ...

Sep 3, 2026
Medical Xpress / Identifying patients at lower risk for kidney transplant rejection

A new risk stratification model developed by Northwestern Medicine scientists may help identify patients at lower risk of kidney transplant rejection, informing more personalized treatment and care strategies with fewer adverse ...

Sep 3, 2026
Phys.org / Firelight may have sparked human storytelling by extending social hours

New research from the University of St Andrews has developed a novel hypothesis of how firelight was critical to the evolution of sophisticated storytelling.

Sep 1, 2026
Tech Xplore / Europe bids to be a robot superpower like the US, China

AI-powered robots briefly took over the European Parliament this week to showcase the continent's creators as the bloc races to compete in a field dominated by China and the United States.

Sep 3, 2026
Medical Xpress / MS therapy uses patients' red blood cells to curb autoimmune attacks without broadly suppressing immunity

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease that particularly affects young adults. The disease is driven by immune cells—primarily what are known as T lymphocytes. These cells normally fight off ...

Sep 1, 2026
Phys.org / New enzyme mechanism explains how sulfur-reducing bacteria process elemental sulfur

Sulfur-reducing bacteria of the phylum Desulfobacterota play a crucial role in the global biogeochemical sulfur cycle. Species such as Geobacter sulfurreducens use elemental sulfur as a terminal electron acceptor during anaerobic ...

Sep 3, 2026
Medical Xpress / AI-assisted approach helps novice users capture heart ultrasound images and identify aortic stenosis

Mayo Clinic researchers tested an approach that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help people without previous ultrasound experience capture heart images and identify patients who may have a common and serious heart valve ...

Sep 3, 2026
Phys.org / How cities can use rain gardens to help prevent flooding

Canada's capital, Ottawa, was bombarded with 167 millimeters (6.6 inches) of rain in five hours earlier this summer in what the city called a 1-in-200-year event. Close to 5,800 reports of basement flooding followed, and ...

Sep 3, 2026
Phys.org / Who hears you say 'thank you?' It matters more than you might think

There are many ways to say thank you.

Sep 3, 2026
Medical Xpress / Certain fertility treatments associated with Kawasaki disease risk in children

A large-scale study in Japan led by researchers from the University of Osaka and the Osaka Women's and Children's Hospital found that certain fertility treatments are associated with an increased risk of Kawasaki disease ...

Sep 3, 2026