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Medical Xpress / How stroke influences speech comprehension

Following a stroke, some people experience a language disorder that hinders their ability to process speech sounds. How do their brains change from stroke?

Dec 29, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / West Antarctica's history of rapid melting foretells sudden shifts in continent's 'catastrophic' geology

Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and spanning both hemispheres of the globe. The Western Hemisphere sector of the ice sheet is shaped like ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Earth
Tech Xplore / They graduated from Stanford: Due to AI, they can't find a job

A Stanford software engineering degree used to be a golden ticket. Artificial intelligence has devalued it to bronze, recent graduates say.

Dec 29, 2025 in Business
Phys.org / Physicists experimentally realize a quantum Hilbert hotel

(Phys.org)—In 1924, the mathematician David Hilbert described a hotel with an infinite number of rooms that are all occupied. Demonstrating the counterintuitive nature of infinity, he showed that the hotel could still accommodate ...

Oct 21, 2015 in Physics
Phys.org / New law implies thermodynamic time runs backwards inside black holes

(Phys.org)—Black holes are known to have many strange properties, such as that they allow nothing—not even light—to escape after falling in. A lesser known but equally bizarre property is that black holes appear to ...

Sep 3, 2015 in Physics
Phys.org / Quantum computer that 'computes without running' sets efficiency record

(Phys.org)—Due to quantum effects, it's possible to build a quantum computer that computes without running—or as the scientists explain, "the result of a computation may be learned without actually running the computer." ...

Aug 31, 2015 in Physics
Medical Xpress / AI-designed protein shows 50% greater anti-inflammatory effect in animal studies

A research team has developed a next-generation anti-inflammatory protein using AI and supercomputing.

Dec 29, 2025 in Inflammatory disorders
Medical Xpress / How can I get water out of my ear after swimming?

Swimming is one of the best parts of summer. But long after you've cooled down and dried off, you might be left with a niggling feeling—there is still water in your ear.

Dec 29, 2025 in Health
Phys.org / Officials suspect bird flu after 12 swans die at Orlando's Lake Eola

A dozen of the iconic swans that live in the heart of downtown Orlando, Florida, have died in recent days of an unknown cause, leading officials to suspect that bird flu is to blame.

Dec 29, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Social media, not gaming, tied to rising attention problems in teens, new study finds

The digital revolution has become a vast, unplanned experiment—and children are its most exposed participants. As ADHD diagnoses rise around the world, a key question has emerged: could the growing use of digital devices ...

Dec 26, 2025 in Health
Phys.org / Ancient pottery workshop reveals Iron Age production chain

Ceramics are one of the most important sources of information for archaeologists. Yet how these objects are produced, especially in the firing stage, has received little attention to date. The excavation of a well-preserved ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Indoor tanning makes youthful skin much older on a genetic level

Tanning bed users are known to have a higher risk of skin cancer, but for the first time researchers have found that young indoor tanners undergo genetic changes that can lead to more mutations in their skin cells than people ...

Dec 27, 2025 in Genetics