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Tech Xplore / They look like harmless game features, but these design tricks quietly reshape how young players spend money

Originally, video games were a product you paid for once and that then provided as many hours of entertainment as users wanted to spend at the computer or console. Now, however, on the mobile phones that are in almost everybody's ...

May 14, 2026
Medical Xpress / Immune system overreaction linked to deadly flu in pregnancy

In most people, influenza stays in the upper respiratory tract—mainly the nose—and clears without spreading further. But during pregnancy, the virus can extend beyond the lungs into the cardiovascular system, increasing the ...

May 14, 2026
Phys.org / JWST maps cosmic web in record detail back to universe's first billion years

Using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers led by researchers at the University of California, Riverside have produced the most detailed map of the cosmic web ever made, tracing the network of galaxies ...

May 12, 2026
Medical Xpress / France and Netherlands say all hantavirus contact cases negative

France's health minister said Thursday that 26 people in France identified as close contacts of hantavirus cases linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship had tested negative for the illness.

May 14, 2026
Medical Xpress / Doctor on ship who helped care for passengers with hantavirus leaves medical isolation unit

An oncologist traveling on the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak has been cleared to leave a special biocontainment unit in Nebraska, where he was the lone American placed in isolation after he helped care ...

May 14, 2026
Medical Xpress / Review shows obesity drugs, obesity surgery lead to a higher proportion of fat-free mass loss than diet and exercise

A new systematic review and meta-analysis of studies presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Istanbul, Turkey (May 12–15) shows that diet and exercise interventions result in a lower proportion of fat-free mass loss ...

May 14, 2026
Phys.org / AI surrogate accelerates nonlinear optics simulations by orders of magnitude

Simulating the nonlinear optical physics that underlies ultrafast laser systems is computationally demanding—a practical bottleneck in settings that require rapid feedback. A study by researchers at Stanford University, University ...

May 12, 2026
Medical Xpress / Steroid use falls, but creatine use climbs rapidly, study shows

U.S. teens report far less anabolic steroid use than they did two decades ago, but creatine use has risen rapidly in recent years, according to a new University of Michigan study. Combined with declining perceptions of steroid ...

May 14, 2026
Phys.org / How a single radioactive cloud caused Fukushima particle contamination

A new study shows that a single radioactive cloud was responsible for a large share of the nuclear fallout during the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster on 11 March 2011. The work is published in the Journal of Hazardous ...

May 12, 2026
Medical Xpress / Study shows that people who gain the most weight are at more than double the risk of certain cancers

New research presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2026) in Istanbul, Turkey (12-15 May) shows that people who gain the highest amount of weight across adulthood are at greatly increased risk of certain obesity-related ...

May 14, 2026
Tech Xplore / These optical sensors don't just see—they think fast enough to change surgery, space exploration and more

Imagine a surgical robot that could detect the boundary between a tumor and healthy tissue during an operation; not by sending images offsite for testing, but by quickly analyzing subtle differences fast enough to guide the ...

May 12, 2026
Medical Xpress / Study finds one in eight adults carries hidden genetic risk—and reveals what it takes to act on it

When Mayo Clinic researchers sequenced the genomes of 484 seemingly healthy adults, they found that about 13% carried a serious, previously unrecognized genetic risk—conditions those patients did not know about and that standard ...

May 14, 2026