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Medical Xpress / Preeclampsia rates in minority communities shed light on the social roots of maternal health disparities

In November 2020, Lupe was in the final weeks of her pregnancy when dark spots began distorting her vision. Lupe, a participant in a study on emotional distress and maternal health in El Paso, Texas, recounted her birth experience ...

Jul 30, 2026
Tech Xplore / How an OpenAI safety test became a real‑world cyberattack on the Hugging Face platform

OpenAI's AI models recently escaped their constraints during an internal cybersecurity evaluation and broke into the production systems of Hugging Face—a popular machine learning platform and community used across the AI ...

Jul 30, 2026
Phys.org / Why and how birdsong differs across the world—and the eight motifs that tie them together

Birdsong carries meaning across open space, helping birds attract mates, defend territory and communicate with rivals. While there has been much research into the use of birdsong across species, researchers have lacked a ...

Jul 24, 2026
Phys.org / Kids who own cellphones have poorer reading comprehension scores than those who don't, researchers find

School cellphone bans might seem like a good way to improve learning for elementary school children, but new research published in Behavioral Sciences shows that simply owning a cellphone correlates with worse reading comprehension. ...

Jul 27, 2026
Medical Xpress / Perilla oil improved platelet function and lowered inflammation in smokers, trial finds

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is among the leading causes of death worldwide. In South Korea, it is the second-leading cause of death, and its incidence has continued to rise in recent years. CVD places a substantial burden ...

Jul 30, 2026
Medical Xpress / How brain cells restore healthy growth and connections after a disease-causing genetic deletion

Scientists at Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have discovered how an experimental therapy can help brain cells overcome the effects of a disease-causing genetic deletion. Instead of repairing the ...

Jul 28, 2026
Phys.org / Drone cameras can measure pigments indicating surface health of dryland soils

Drylands soils are being degraded by human activities and climate change, threatening the thin living layers covering their surface, called biocrusts, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Composed of cyanobacteria, lichens, ...

Jul 30, 2026
Tech Xplore / EAR-Sys could reduce airport computing delays by 14% during major disruptions

Airports could become better able to withstand major operational disruptions under a new computing system designed to keep digital services running during periods of intense pressure. Details are reported in the International ...

Jul 30, 2026
Phys.org / Queen bee pheromones help daughters decide whether to stay or leave the nest

Female sweat bees need to make a pivotal life decision: remain in the nest to help their mother raise more offspring or leave to establish nests of their own. New research from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute ...

Jul 28, 2026
Tech Xplore / Why the AI industry is so fond of the prefix 'co'—by an expert in linguistics

AI companies and evangelists frequently use terms such as copilot, coworker, cocreator and co-scientist to imply these rapidly developing systems can happily coexist with us humans. Their inference is clear: People should ...

Jul 30, 2026
Phys.org / How invasive rats rewire coral reef food webs to create winners and losers

Invasive rats on tropical islands are creating winners and losers among the tiny underwater animals near the bottom of the food chain that inhabit surrounding coral reefs. Scientists say the changes to these marine ecosystems ...

Jul 27, 2026
Phys.org / Scientists uncover two new ways doxycycline disables bacterial ribosomes

Scientists have discovered two new mechanisms for how a well-established antibiotic works, paving the way for the potential development of new antibiotic treatments.

Jul 28, 2026