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Phys.org / Extra school roles can boost teachers' job satisfaction when balanced within existing hours, easing teacher shortages

Teacher retention remains a significant concern in Australia, with stress, burnout, and job dissatisfaction being major contributors to educators leaving the profession.

Feb 17, 2026 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Review finds wide gaps in 'silent trials' used to test medical AI

A review led by Adelaide University researchers has found there's a lack of clear guidelines around the early testing of AI tools in health clinics during a process known as silent trials. The global scoping review, published ...

Feb 17, 2026 in Health informatics
Medical Xpress / Overweight, obesity remained highly prevalent in US youths in 2024

Excess youth overweight and obesity remained highly prevalent in the United States in 2024, according to a study published online Feb. 10 in JAMA Network Open.

Feb 17, 2026 in Overweight & Obesity
Medical Xpress / Why you hardly notice your blind spot: New tests pit three theories of consciousness

Although humans' visual perception of the world appears complete, our eyes contain a visual blind spot where the optic nerve connects to the retina. Scientists are still uncertain whether the brain fully compensates for the ...

Feb 13, 2026 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Combining GLP-1 drugs with hormones may lower uterine cancer risk

Adding GLP-1 medications like Ozempic to progestin therapy could cut the risk of developing endometrial cancer. A retrospective study published in the journal JAMA Network Open found that women using this combination had ...

Feb 14, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Cancer virus imaging helps uncover potential therapeutic targets

New research from the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry and Masonic Cancer Center is providing important new insights into the structure of a human virus that causes blood cancer. In their study published in Nature ...

Feb 16, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / Microscopic plankton reveal tropicalization of the Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is rapidly changing under ongoing climate change. In the eastern basin, tropicalization is already well documented and driven by a combination of strong warming and the influx of tropical species through ...

Feb 15, 2026 in Earth
Medical Xpress / How your posture may be fueling neck pain and headaches

If you spend hours a day looking at a computer, tablet or phone, you're not alone. But that daily habit may be quietly contributing to neck pain, headaches and even dizziness—it is a pattern neurologists are seeing more ...

Phys.org / Philly's snowpack reaches a 65-year milestone, and here's when it finally may disappear

You may not have noticed, but that endless snowpack has developed a slow leak—in this case, historically slow. Its endurance continues to climb the charts among the snowpacks of yesteryear—and in at least one way may ...

Feb 16, 2026 in Earth
Phys.org / Elephant trunk whiskers exhibit material intelligence, revealing the secret behind an amazing sense of touch

A new study from an interdisciplinary German research collaboration, led by the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), reveals the secret to the gentle dexterity of the ...

Feb 12, 2026 in Biology
Phys.org / Play reduces stress and lifts well-being—and adults benefit as much as children do

Somewhere along the way to adulthood, time to play fades away. We tend to trade silliness and imagination for seriousness and busyness.

Feb 17, 2026 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Football-sized fossil creature may have been one of the first land animals to eat plants

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto the land, and it took another 100 million years for the first animals with backbones to join them. ...

Feb 10, 2026 in Biology