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Medical Xpress / Foundational research points to new therapeutic strategies for an emerging cancer drug

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers and the third-leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States. While scientists continue searching for new therapies, advances can also come from understanding ...

Jun 23, 2026
Phys.org / Happy Asteroid Day! Prize-winning plan focuses on space infrastructure

For decades, astronomers and policymakers have been working on plans to protect our planet from killer asteroids. But now there's a new realm to protect: the thousands of satellites we're putting in orbit.

Jun 23, 2026
Medical Xpress / People consciously recognize the meaning of words they can no longer see, study finds

When humans are awake, they are typically aware of specific sounds, movements, objects and other stimuli in their surroundings. Most of these are stimuli that they can see, hear or perceive with any of their other senses.

Jun 19, 2026
Phys.org / Third known interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS may be billions of years older than the solar system, study finds

An interstellar comet that blazed past the sun last year could be nearly three times older than our solar system and is unlike anything ever seen before in our cosmic backyard, astronomers said Monday.

Jun 22, 2026
Phys.org / Insects exhibit evidence of a daily body clock for humidity

In a novel experiment at the University of Cincinnati, researchers recently isolated kissing bugs, fruit flies, mosquitoes and spider beetles in a climate- and light-controlled environment and found that they responded predictably ...

Jun 22, 2026
Tech Xplore / Haptic insoles and forearm band improve balance by substituting lost foot-pressure feedback

Misjudge a curb or miss a step on the stairs, and there is a split second of panic as your foot doesn't land when you expect it to. That brief loss of pressure can be enough to throw off your balance entirely.

Jun 22, 2026
Dialog / Documented concussions in NFL players linked to higher odds of arrest

Football is a lab for studying the many dimensions of head injury. From defensive backs running at the pace of a sprinter downhill into a 220-pound muscular running back at full speed, to 400-plus-pound linemen knocking heads ...

Jun 22, 2026
Phys.org / Quantum sensor overcomes major obstacle in search for dark matter and gravitational waves

A prototype quantum sensor developed by researchers at Imperial has demonstrated for the first time that a key principle behind next-generation quantum detectors can work under realistic conditions.

Jun 17, 2026
Phys.org / Primordial halo simulations reveal how cosmic storms shaped the universe's first stars

Just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, the universe was a dark and simple place. There were no galaxies like the Milky Way, no planets, and no heavy elements such as carbon or oxygen. Instead, vast clouds of ...

Jun 22, 2026
Tech Xplore / Forgetting may be the secret to better AI language learning

Giving AI a human-like memory limitation may actually help it learn language better. In their new proof-of-principle study, Abishek Thamma (University of Amsterdam) and Micha Heilbron (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) ...

Jun 23, 2026
Medical Xpress / Investigators identify blood protein signature for non-invasive diagnosis of pediatric inflammatory bowel disease

For children with suspected inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a chronic, relapsing condition of the gastrointestinal tract, getting the right diagnosis relies on a combination of clinical evaluation, imaging, endoscopy and ...

Jun 23, 2026
Tech Xplore / Onsite fabrication unlocks large-area electronic skin for robots and wearables

Korean researchers have secured flexible electronic skin technology that can be fabricated directly in the field. This achievement has increased the feasibility of commercializing electronic skin for use in various fields, ...

Jun 23, 2026