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Phys.org / Jupiter's Galilean moons may have gained life's building blocks at birth

Southwest Research Institute was part of an international team that demonstrated how complex organic molecules (COMs), key chemical precursors to life, could have been incorporated into Jupiter's Galilean moons during their ...

Feb 23, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / The brain's primitive 'fear center' is actually a sophisticated mediator, research reveals

A Dartmouth study challenges the conventional view that the amygdala—the two-sided structure deep in the brain involved in emotion, learning, and decision making—is simply the brain's primitive "fear center," reflexively ...

Feb 24, 2026 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / Water supplies in rural Nepal could be cleaned by harnessing the power of the sun, scientists claim

A new method for cleaning household water supplies in rural communities in Nepal is being developed by an international team of scientists. The solution removes harmful bacteria from the water by inserting non-toxic metal ...

Feb 25, 2026 in Earth
Medical Xpress / Cannabis in pregnancy may leave schizophrenia-risk signals in the placenta

Schizophrenia is a serious mental health disorder that is characterized by psychosis, making it difficult for a person to tell what is real. It impacts about 1% of the Canadian population and is linked to major health challenges, ...

Feb 25, 2026 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / Why letting museum visitors smell horse manure might be good for conservation

What does it take to make people genuinely care about endangered cultural heritage? According to a new study from researchers at Nagoya University and Gifu University in Japan, the answer might begin with something unexpected: ...

Feb 25, 2026 in Other Sciences
Tech Xplore / AI may boost productivity—but it can hurt a creator's reputation, new research finds

Generative AI is now commonly used in creative fields like marketing and music, but new research from FIU's College of Business suggests that how creative work is made may matter just as much as the final product, especially ...

Feb 25, 2026 in Machine learning & AI
Phys.org / Sunray-like ripples emerge on a frozen reaction front

Researchers in Belgium have unveiled a striking chemical reaction in which ripples along a frozen reaction front resemble the rays of a shining star. Publishing their results in Physical Review Letters, Anne De Wit and colleagues ...

Feb 22, 2026 in Physics
Medical Xpress / Early healthy eating shapes lifelong brain health, new research finds

Eating unhealthy foods early in life leaves lasting brain and feeding changes, but gut bacteria can help restore healthy eating, a new University College Cork (UCC) research study finds. A high-fat, high-sugar diet during ...

Feb 24, 2026 in Neuroscience
Tech Xplore / Novel framework for unsupervised point cloud anomaly localization developed

The automatic detection of surface-level irregularities—defects or anomalies—in 3D data is of significant interest for various real-world purposes, such as industrial quality inspection, infrastructure monitoring, robotics, ...

Feb 25, 2026 in Computer Sciences
Medical Xpress / Molecular imaging may reduce need for melanoma biopsies

Douglas Grossman, MD, Ph.D., co-leader of the Melanoma Center at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah (the U) and professor of dermatology at the U, has helped develop a noninvasive technology that aims to ...

Feb 25, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / Methane's missing emissions: The underestimated impact of small sources

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, with an impact estimated at 80 times that of CO₂. Although efforts are being made to reduce the contribution of big polluters to methane in Japan, new research from Osaka Metropolitan ...

Feb 24, 2026 in Earth
Medical Xpress / US funding freeze linked to HIV care disruptions in 32 countries, study finds

A new study led by researchers from the CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health (ISPH) finds that the 2025 freeze on U.S. foreign assistance triggered disruptions to HIV services, medications, labs, ...

Feb 25, 2026 in HIV & AIDS