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Medical Xpress / Blood-based DNA signals may help track osteosarcoma in children

Detecting whether osteosarcoma, a rare but aggressive bone cancer that most often affects children and adolescents, has returned or spread remains a major challenge for patients and doctors. Blood-based biomarkers, which ...

Apr 15, 2026
Phys.org / Young stars dim quickly in their X-ray output, potentially benefiting orbiting planets

Scientists have found that young stellar cousins of our sun are calming down and dimming more quickly in their X-ray output than previously thought, according to a new study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. A paper ...

Apr 14, 2026
Tech Xplore / Electric vehicles could be key to more efficient home energy use

An Australian study has found that electric vehicles (EVs) equipped with vehicle-to-home (V2H) technology can significantly reduce household electricity costs and lessen the need for large, costly home battery systems. Researchers ...

Apr 16, 2026
Tech Xplore / Computational 'time machine' shows solar and wind power on track for 2°C target, but not for 1.5°C

Wind and solar power have grown faster than almost anyone predicted, but projecting their future expansion remains surprisingly difficult. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed what they ...

Apr 14, 2026
Phys.org / Study challenges a site that's key to how humans got to the Americas

For decades, the strongest evidence for the earliest human settlement in the Americas came from a site in Chile called Monte Verde.

Apr 11, 2026
Medical Xpress / Diagnosing dementia: Neuroimaging technique could speed detection

Yale School of Medicine (YSM) researchers have tested a new and potentially more sensitive neuroimaging tool for diagnosing behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). They reported their findings on April 9 in the ...

Apr 16, 2026
Phys.org / Mirror-positioning method could make quantum gravity tests possible

In quantum physics, objects can exist in multiple states at the same time—a phenomenon known as quantum superposition, where a particle does not have a single definite value of position or momentum until it is measured. A ...

Apr 14, 2026
Tech Xplore / Improved AI method enables reliable logical conclusions

Weighing up arguments, drawing logical conclusions and deriving a clearly correct answer—such tasks have so far presented artificial intelligence with a number of hurdles. When it comes to complex problems, computing a logically ...

Apr 16, 2026
Phys.org / The once-theoretical skyrmion could unlock supercomputing memory

When looking to the future of information technology, researchers have pinpointed a once-theoretical particle-like structure: the skyrmion. Magnetic skyrmions are very stable structures found on micromagnetic materials that ...

Apr 14, 2026
Tech Xplore / Tiny cameras in earbuds let users talk with AI about what they see

University of Washington researchers developed the first system that incorporates tiny cameras in off-the-shelf wireless earbuds to allow users to talk with an AI model about the scene in front of them. For instance, a user ...

Apr 14, 2026
Medical Xpress / Exclusive breastfeeding linked to long-term changes in marks on DNA, found in blood

Babies who are exclusively breastfed for at least three months carry markers in their blood that differ from babies who are not breastfed. The finding comes from the largest study of its kind, conducted across an international ...

Apr 16, 2026
Medical Xpress / Lab-grown mini-brains shed light on childhood epilepsy

Why does the same genetic mutation cause a severe brain malformation in some patients but not in others? Researchers from the MOSAIC team at the Paris Brain Institute have developed mosaic human cortical organoids carrying ...

Apr 16, 2026