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Tech Xplore / Structural reform needed to address UK electricity price pressures

New research from the University of Aberdeen warns that UK electricity bills are unlikely to fall under current arrangements and urges policymakers to consider structural reforms to protect consumers while delivering the ...

Nov 25, 2025 in Business
Phys.org / Australia's vast savannas are changing, and AI is showing us how

Australia has the largest intact savannas on Earth. Savannas are an ever-changing mosaic of ecosystems—from the sparse grasslands to dense woodlands, forests and wetlands.

Nov 25, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Automated system enables real-time malignancy grading of prostate tumors

The precise identification of tumor boundaries during radical prostatectomy remains a major clinical challenge. As positive surgical margins occur in 15–40% of prostate cancer cases, the risk of postoperative recurrence ...

Nov 24, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Thyroid dysfunction during pregnancy may increase autism risk in children

Women with persistent thyroid hormone imbalance across pregnancy may be at an increased risk of having children with autism, according to a study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

Nov 25, 2025 in Autism spectrum disorders
Phys.org / Final experimental result for the muon still challenges theorists

For experimental physicists, the latest measurement of the muon is the best of times. For theorists there's still work to do.

Nov 21, 2025 in Physics
Phys.org / Tiny copepod reveals that gene location influences natural selection

A new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison provides the first empirical evidence connecting the chromosomal location of genes to natural selection, indicating the arrangement of genes can influence ...

Nov 24, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Liquid biopsy tool can guide early-stage gastric cancer treatment

Early-stage gastric cancer can be assessed more accurately using a new liquid biopsy tool that predicts lymph node metastasis, as reported by researchers from Science Tokyo. They developed a model that uses deoxyribonucleic ...

Nov 25, 2025 in Gastroenterology
Phys.org / The seamounts of Cape Verde: A biodiversity hotspot and a priority for marine conservation

An international team has published the first comprehensive study on the seamounts of the Cape Verde archipelago, their biodiversity, ecological functionality and socio-economic relevance in the journal Progress in Oceanography. ...

Nov 25, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / AI learns from the tree of life to support rare disease diagnosis

Researchers have created an artificial intelligence model that can identify which mutations in human proteins are most likely to cause disease, even when those mutations have never been seen before in any person.

Nov 24, 2025 in Genetics
Phys.org / Nanowire platform reveals elusive astrocytes in their natural state

Scientists have engineered a nanowire platform that mimics brain tissue to study astrocytes, the star-shaped cells critical for brain health, for the first time in their natural state.

Nov 24, 2025 in Nanotechnology
Phys.org / NZ's draft science curriculum favors rote learning over critical thinking

New Zealand's draft science curriculum, released last month, promises to advance "knowledge-rich" learning.

Nov 25, 2025 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Certain immune cell subtypes drive lupus, study finds

Detailed mapping of CD4⁺ T cells from children with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has revealed distinct immune cell subsets with likely roles in disease pathogenesis, according to a study led by Weill Cornell Medicine ...

Nov 24, 2025 in Immunology