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Tech Xplore / New 3D benchmark leaves AI in knots

Today's artificial intelligence models can't even tie their own shoes.

Dec 16, 2025 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / Basalt and cotton fiber composite yarn advance textile industry's green transition

A research team from the Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has developed a basalt fiber/cotton fiber composite yarn that integrates weavability with multiple functional ...

Dec 19, 2025 in Engineering
Medical Xpress / New understanding of T cell receptors may improve cancer immunotherapies

One of the most exciting advances in cancer treatments in the past decade is the development of T cell immunotherapies, in which a patient's own immune system is trained to recognize and attack dangerous cells. Yet a full ...

Dec 16, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / GoMars model simulates 50-year Martian dust cycle

Mars is a dusty planet dominated by vast, dry deserts, with no easily accessible sources of liquid water. Much like on Earth, dust is lifted from Mars's surface by wind and rotating air columns, transported through the atmosphere, ...

Dec 17, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Inflammation-induced metabolic shifts linked to brain disorders

Acute systemic inflammation has long been suspected to trigger harmful processes within the brain, contributing to neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. A new study published online in the ...

Dec 19, 2025 in Neuroscience
Tech Xplore / Engineers develop real-time membrane imaging for sustainable water filtration

CU Boulder researchers have introduced a solution to improving the performance of large-scale desalination plants: stimulated Raman scattering (SRS).

Dec 16, 2025 in Engineering
Phys.org / The hidden physics of knot formation in fluids

Knots are everywhere—from tangled headphones to DNA strands packed inside viruses—but how an isolated filament can knot itself without collisions or external agitation has remained a longstanding puzzle in soft-matter ...

Dec 15, 2025 in Physics
Phys.org / 'Ouzo effect' reveals how oil droplets can resist flow and form stable patterns in liquids

Whether it's Greek ouzo, French pastis or Turkish raki, when these spirits are diluted with water, the mixture becomes cloudy. The reason for this is that the aniseed oils contained in the spirit dissolve well in alcohol ...

Dec 17, 2025 in Physics
Tech Xplore / AI system protects wireless networks from jamming attacks in real time

A research team at the University of Ottawa has developed an advanced artificial intelligence system designed to autonomously defend wireless networks from jamming attacks, operating much like a digital immune system. This ...

Dec 17, 2025 in Telecom
Phys.org / Dazzling cosmic jet reveals time-stamped history of star birth

An international team of astronomers has uncovered the most unmistakable evidence yet that the powerful jets launched by newborn stars reliably record a star's most violent growth episodes, confirming a long-standing model ...

Dec 16, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Metabolic analyses of animal fossils help scientists reconstruct million-year-old environments

For the first time, scientists have analyzed metabolism-related molecules from the fossilized bones of animals that lived 1.3 to 3 million years ago, revealing insights about both the animals and their environments.

Dec 17, 2025 in Biology
Phys.org / People tend to overestimate others' emotions, but this may boost empathy

According to a new study led by Prof. Anat Perry and her Ph.D. student, Shir Genzer, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, together with Prof. Noga Cohen from the University of Haifa, chances are you're overestimating just ...

Dec 16, 2025 in Other Sciences