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Tech Xplore / AI prevents unstable material designs, cutting costs for chip and cooling applications

Today, anyone with a large enough artificial intelligence model can generate millions of new material designs in minutes. Unfortunately, that hasn't led to a huge leap in the number of new materials being used to improve ...

Aug 26, 2026
Tech Xplore / Amoeba-inspired method could enable energy-efficient hardware for complex optimization

Combinatorial optimization problems are ubiquitous, underpinning decision-making in a wide range of fields, including logistics, transportation, communication networks, drug discovery and materials science. However, these ...

Aug 26, 2026
Medical Xpress / Out of sync: How competing demands shape the cancer patient experience

Scientists are making progress in developing new cancer treatments, but a patient's experience with cancer is shaped by more than medicine. A new sociological study finds that conflicting medical, work and family timelines ...

Aug 28, 2026
Medical Xpress / Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo spreads to 2 new health zones with a total of 60 areas now affected

The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has spread to two new health zones in eastern Congo, with a total of 60 now affected, according to the latest government figures published on Friday.

Aug 28, 2026
Tech Xplore / Guns, drugs and car chases: GTA 6 preview lands on Netflix after leaks

Rockstar Games on Thursday launched, for the first time on Netflix, a preview of its hotly anticipated next installment in the Grand Theft Auto franchise, which will be released in November after a monthslong delay and recent ...

Aug 28, 2026
Medical Xpress / Can you slow the aging process? Study reveals which interventions might help

When Raghav Sehgal arrived at Yale as a graduate student several years ago, he wanted to explore the use of powerful computer science tools in cancer research. With an engineering background and a computational biology startup ...

Aug 24, 2026
Phys.org / Meteorite dust holds records of magnetism that may have helped form the sun

Around 4.6 billion years ago, the solar system was little more than a giant ball of gas and dust. Over the next few million years, this "solar nebula" underwent a huge transformation, flattening into a disk of matter that ...

Aug 24, 2026
Phys.org / Supersized quantum sensors make faint photons easier to catch

Our everyday life is flooded with photons, the quantum building blocks of light. For cutting-edge technology, from quantum computing to deep-tissue imaging, detecting every single photon counts.

Aug 24, 2026
Tech Xplore / Using light to distinguish real from fake with hard-to-replicate 'artificial fingerprints'

Shine a light, and the real can be distinguished from the fake. KAIST researchers have developed a security technology that uses unique artificial fingerprints created by the random assembly of nanoparticles. Although extremely ...

Aug 26, 2026
Phys.org / Naked photobombing comet found in public image

Sometimes images are released before anyone realizes they have been photobombed, meaning something unexpected showed up in the background. A team of researchers found a naked photobombing comet in publicly available archival ...

Aug 25, 2026
Tech Xplore / Major security weaknesses found in leading open-weight LLMs

Safety protections built into some of the world's most widely used artificial intelligence (AI) models can be stripped away with alarming ease, according to a new international study.

Aug 25, 2026
Phys.org / Near-total lunar eclipse is coming up with the Americas in prime position

Now it's the moon's turn to pull a disappearing act. After being shut out of this month's total solar eclipse, the Americas will have the best seats in the celestial house when Earth's shadow briefly envelops the moon. Almost ...

Aug 22, 2026