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Phys.org / Saturday Citations: Cancer therapy breakthrough; Sumatran tigers thrive; frogs eat what, now?

This week, JPL scientists reported that glaciers speed up and slow down at predictable intervals. CERN's ATLAS experiment detected evidence for the decay of a Higgs boson into a muon-antimuon pair. And researchers discovered ...

Dec 6, 2025 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Long-term study of nearby blazar reveals complex emission patterns

Using NASA's Swift and Fermi space telescopes, Indian astronomers have conducted a long-term multiwavelength study of a nearby blazar designated TXS 0518+211. Results of the study, published Nov. 26 on the arXiv pre-print ...

Dec 5, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / China outlines future plans in new video, including finding Earth 2.0

In a recent Hot Take segment, the China Global Television Network recently released an interesting video detailing China's future plans for space. Titled "Earth 2.0? China's plan to find new Earth," the video actually details ...

Dec 8, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / An existing drug may improve ovarian cancer treatment

Hua-Ying Fan, PhD, hopes that her team's latest discovery could help the almost 21,000 people who are expected to receive an ovarian cancer diagnosis this year.

Dec 8, 2025 in Medications
Medical Xpress / An innovative tool helps measure healthy aging

A Florida State University researcher is part of a pioneering team that has developed a new measure to understand and support healthy aging, with the potential to change how health care workers, employers and policymakers ...

Dec 8, 2025 in Gerontology & Geriatrics
Phys.org / Genomic discovery could save farmers millions by preventing groundnut sprouting before harvest

Unpredictable rains pose a serious threat to groundnut farmers, with pre-harvest sprouting causing significant losses. Spanish groundnut varieties, representing nearly 60% of global production, are particularly vulnerable. ...

Dec 8, 2025 in Biology
Tech Xplore / Aging bridges are crumbling. Here's how new technologies can help detect danger earlier

New signs of deterioration recently discovered on the Île-aux-Tourtes Bridge in Montréal have spurred the Québec government to reinforce beams and install shoring just to keep the structure open.

Dec 8, 2025 in Engineering
Medical Xpress / School reopening during COVID-19 pandemic associated with improvement in children's mental health

Reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic was linked with significantly lower rates of mental health diagnoses among children, including anxiety, depression, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and a ...

Dec 8, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / New study explains why people fall for fake news

In a world where misinformation spreads faster than fact, a new study is offering insight into why so many people fall for fake news, even when they suspect it's false.

Dec 8, 2025 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Millions of liters of medical imaging contrast media contribute to environmental pollution, study reveals

A new study published in JAMA Network Open highlights the significant environmental footprint of medical imaging contrast agents, finding that Medicare patients alone received 13.5 billion milliliters of contrast media between ...

Dec 8, 2025 in Earth
Medical Xpress / New combination approach aims to make CAR T more durable in lymphoma

A new clinical trial suggests that pairing bispecific antibodies and antibody-drug conjugates with CAR T-cell therapy may sharply boost one-year progression-free survival for people with aggressive lymphoma.

Dec 8, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Comprehensive map reveals neuronal dendrites in the mouse brain in greater detail

Understanding the shape or morphology of neurons and mapping the tree-like branches via which they receive signals from other cells (i.e., dendrites) is a long-standing objective of neuroscience research. Ultimately, this ...

Dec 4, 2025 in Genetics