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Phys.org / Snow cover on Greek mountains has more than halved in four decades, study finds

Snow cover in the mountains of Greece—an important water source for communities, agriculture and natural ecosystems during the dry summer months—has more than halved over the past four decades, a study has found.

Apr 30, 2026
Tech Xplore / Cleaning up toxic solar panels to bring them indoors

Safer and more environmentally friendly indoor solar panels could soon help power electronics in homes and offices, thanks to University of Queensland researchers. A team of chemical engineers led by UQ's Dr. Miaoqiang Lyu ...

Apr 30, 2026
Phys.org / Single X-ray photons reveal hidden light-matter interactions in 50-nanometer double slits

A rainbow reveals with colors what otherwise remains hidden: light is "refracted" by transparent matter, in this case water droplets. This same physical effect underlies many everyday technologies, like LCD screens and broadband ...

Apr 27, 2026
Phys.org / Q&A: What AI actually does in diffusion models for drug design

In the search for new drugs, artificial intelligence in the form of diffusion models is being used in drug design. What exactly does AI do in this context? Dr. Andrea Mastropietro and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bajorath from Life Science ...

May 2, 2026
Medical Xpress / AI surpasses physicians on clinical reasoning tasks, raising the bar for more serious testing

In one of the largest studies to compare artificial intelligence and physicians on a wide array of clinical reasoning tasks including real emergency department data, a team of physicians and computer scientists at Harvard ...

Apr 30, 2026
Medical Xpress / Genetic discovery may explain why pancreatic cancer is so difficult to treat

Pancreatic cancer can remain quiet for years, developing undetected before causing symptoms that lead to a diagnosis. Even after a surgeon removes a pancreas tumor, other cells often hide and erupt later. But University of ...

Apr 30, 2026
Phys.org / Self-organizing 'pencil beam' laser could help scientists design brain-targeted therapies

MIT researchers discovered a paradoxical phenomenon in optical physics that could enable a new bioimaging method that's faster and higher-resolution than existing technology. They discovered that, under the right conditions, ...

Apr 27, 2026
Phys.org / Perseverance and Curiosity panoramas reveal dual sides of Mars

NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance rovers have captured two 360-degree landscapes that highlight how the missions are revealing details of the Red Planet's formation, watery past, and potential for life. Located 2,345 miles ...

Apr 28, 2026
Phys.org / Massive reef expansion 20 million years ago may explain modern coral life's origins

New research published in Science Advances reveals that the largest expansion of coral reefs in the past 100 million years happened about 20 to 10 million years ago, between Australia and Southeast Asia.

Apr 30, 2026
Phys.org / Fungi utilize ancient antimicrobial proteins to attack hosts and their microbiomes, plant researchers discover

An international research team led by Cologne-based plant scientist Professor Dr. Bart Thomma from the Institute for Plant Sciences, the Collaborative Research Center MiBiNet and the CEPLAS Cluster of Excellence for Plant ...

Apr 30, 2026
Medical Xpress / Experimental KRAS G12D drug slows cancer growth, shrinks tumors in early test

A first-in-human clinical trial led by an international team of researchers and published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that setidegrasib, an investigational targeted therapy drug designed to eliminate a key ...

May 2, 2026
Phys.org / Early human embryonic cells may be vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection

A University of California, Riverside study reports that cells in the earliest stages of human development could be susceptible to infection by SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, offering new insight into how the virus interacts ...

May 2, 2026