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Medical Xpress / Study finds pregnancy reduces odds of developing rheumatoid arthritis

Women who have given birth multiple times are less likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis, while no or fewer pregnancies was a risk factor along with obesity and smoking, a University of Queensland study has found.

May 5, 2026
Tech Xplore / US to assess new AI models before their release

The US government on Tuesday announced in a policy shift that it will have access to tech giants' new AI models to evaluate them before they are released.

May 5, 2026
Medical Xpress / Q&A: How 3D printing could revolutionize the cost, fit, and performance of dentures

Jeffrey Stansbury, Ph.D., senior associate dean for research and professor at the CU Anschutz School of Dental Medicine, has four properties he wants the next generation of dentures to include: that they are cheaper, faster ...

May 5, 2026
Phys.org / How plants make copies of themselves—key 'cloning switch' gene identified

A Hiroshima-University-led research team has discovered a key gene responsible for the initiation of gemma development, acting as a "master switch" to start asexual reproduction (cloning) in the model plant Marchantia polymorpha ...

May 4, 2026
Tech Xplore / When AI can't count—and what researchers are doing about it

Today, artificial intelligence can describe images, recognize objects, and explain complex relationships. The pace of development is remarkable: So-called vision-language models (VLMs) combine text and image understanding ...

May 4, 2026
Medical Xpress / 'Super shoes' can improve running performance but may contribute to injury

Researchers at Mass General Brigham have found that although advanced footwear technology (AFT), commonly known as "super shoes," may improve performance in elite runners, they also cause subtle changes in running mechanics ...

May 5, 2026
Phys.org / Where was your backyard millions of years ago?

An international team of Earth scientists led by Utrecht professor Douwe van Hinsbergen has developed an online tool that allows you to see, for any given location on Earth, what latitude it occupied in the distant past, ...

Apr 29, 2026
Medical Xpress / Two-pronged phage treatment counters resistance in Mycobacterium abscessus lung infections

Scientists from A*STAR Infectious Diseases Labs (A*STAR IDL), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore's Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine), the National University of Singapore (NUS), and international collaborators ...

May 4, 2026
Science X / Your hand betrays your sense of fairness, and it does so before you even realize it

It turns out that your body is much more truthful about what is and isn't fair than you might imagine. The rate at which we make physical movements is able to reveal whether our motives are self-interested or retaliatory.

Apr 30, 2026
Phys.org / Plants under stress switch from photosynthesis to protein cleanup, researchers show

Plants are under constant stress due to pathogens, heat, or other environmental factors. Proteins can become damaged as a result and cell function is thrown off balance. Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum working with ...

May 4, 2026
Phys.org / New research reveals repeated flooding is altering Florida freshwater resources

Heavy rains causing repeated river flood intrusions into Florida's freshwater springs are changing the function of the clear natural resource. Findings from University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences ...

May 5, 2026
Phys.org / Identifying severe weather hazards further in the future with AI

An artificial intelligence (AI) tool built by the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR) can help forecasters look further into the future as they work to identify the potential ...

May 5, 2026