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Phys.org / AI has powerful uses for First Nations oral cultural knowledge. Here's how

Much of the conversation about artificial intelligence (AI) and Indigenous peoples focuses on harms, such as cultural appropriation, cultural flattening and digital exclusion. These risks are real.

Mar 4, 2026
Phys.org / Heavier hydrogen makes silicon T centers shine brighter for quantum networks

Quantum technologies, computers or other devices that operate leveraging quantum mechanical effects, rely on the precise control of light and matter. Over the past decades, quantum physicists and material scientists have ...

Feb 28, 2026
Phys.org / Large land predators were hunting big plant-eaters more than 280 million years ago, study finds

A study examining fossil evidence shows that large land predators were already hunting big plant-eating animals more than 280 million years ago. University of Toronto Mississauga researchers Jordan M. Young, Tea Maho, and ...

Mar 2, 2026
Medical Xpress / Sun smart kids have 50% fewer moles and a lower melanoma risk

A long-running Queensland study has found children today are developing significantly fewer moles than kids 25 years ago, with predictions of a major reduction in future melanoma risk. The Brisbane Twin Nevus Study, led by ...

Mar 4, 2026
Phys.org / Permafrost is key to carbon storage. That makes northern wildfires even more dangerous

The devastating wildfires in northern Canada in recent years have climate consequences that go far beyond smoke and carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere, according to a new study co-authored by two NAU researchers. ...

Mar 3, 2026
Medical Xpress / Intranasal vaccine booster shows stronger immune response and protection against sarbecoviruses

Researchers at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) and Monash University in Australia have demonstrated that an intranasal vaccine booster may confer significantly stronger ...

Mar 3, 2026
Medical Xpress / Key DNA changes in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease identified

In a study published in Nature Communications, Mayo Clinic researchers have identified specific DNA-level changes in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Using advanced biological analysis, the team mapped ...

Mar 3, 2026
Medical Xpress / High-fat diet accelerates triple-negative breast cancer growth in engineered tumors

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Princeton University conducted a study to find out what patients diagnosed with breast cancer should eat to ensure the best prognosis. "We took the approach of building identical ...

Mar 3, 2026
Phys.org / Creating sustainable supply of declining tree species can support floodplain habitat restoration

A number of native black poplar whips—young unbranched trees—were planted at the campus near Southwell as part of a project involving NTU, the Environment Agency, Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, Trent Rivers Trust, Nottinghamshire ...

Mar 4, 2026
Medical Xpress / Trauma patients recover faster when medical teams know each other well, new study finds

When a trauma patient enters the emergency department, their potential for survival often depends on what happens within the first minutes after their arrival. After studying trauma resuscitation teams at UPMC Presbyterian ...

Mar 4, 2026
Phys.org / Synthetic gene medicines may disrupt DNA repair

Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs), used to treat genetic diseases, can affect how cells repair damage to their DNA. This is shown in a new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications. The findings ...

Mar 3, 2026
Phys.org / 'Old Mother Goose' challenges a 14-million-year lineage story in New Zealand

The discovery of a rare fossil goose in an ancient Central Otago lake shows the evolutionary history of Aotearoa New Zealand birds is much more dynamic than once thought, a University of Otago–Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka researcher ...

Mar 2, 2026