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Medical Xpress / AI-assisted approach helps novice users capture heart ultrasound images and identify aortic stenosis

Mayo Clinic researchers tested an approach that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help people without previous ultrasound experience capture heart images and identify patients who may have a common and serious heart valve ...

Sep 3, 2026
Dialog / Faint far-infrared radiation drives a correlated insulator-to-metal transition in magic-angle graphene

One of the central ideas in modern physics is the phase transition—a sudden transformation of the state of a material. We encounter phase transitions throughout everyday life: water freezes into ice, wax melts in the warmth ...

Aug 31, 2026
Phys.org / Declining star formation not caused by simple 'fuel crisis,' new measurements suggest

The universe has been having fewer and fewer stellar "babies." Over the past 4.5 billion years, the rate of star birth has crashed to less than half of what it once was. But here's the twist: the most essential "fuel" for ...

Sep 1, 2026
Phys.org / How cities can use rain gardens to help prevent flooding

Canada's capital, Ottawa, was bombarded with 167 millimeters (6.6 inches) of rain in five hours earlier this summer in what the city called a 1-in-200-year event. Close to 5,800 reports of basement flooding followed, and ...

Sep 3, 2026
Medical Xpress / Dozens of genes tied to OCD and tic disorders discovered

A Rutgers-led international collaboration has identified 36 genes that substantially raise the risk of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and chronic tic disorders—providing, two researchers said, the most detailed biological ...

Sep 1, 2026
Phys.org / Who hears you say 'thank you?' It matters more than you might think

There are many ways to say thank you.

Sep 3, 2026
Phys.org / New enzyme mechanism explains how sulfur-reducing bacteria process elemental sulfur

Sulfur-reducing bacteria of the phylum Desulfobacterota play a crucial role in the global biogeochemical sulfur cycle. Species such as Geobacter sulfurreducens use elemental sulfur as a terminal electron acceptor during anaerobic ...

Sep 3, 2026
Dialog / A Permian fossil may reveal the oldest known flowering-plant structure

Despite the importance and dominance of angiosperms ("flowering plants") in the current ecosystem, it is rather surprising that we know so little about their origin and early evolution. Paleobotanists have been making efforts ...

Aug 31, 2026
Phys.org / AI-informed AdaptiveFlow redefines large-scale cloud computing for drug discovery

Researchers today announced AdaptiveFlow, an AI-informed platform that can virtually screen billions of drug-like molecules with a 1,000-fold reduction in computational costs over existing methods. Developed and validated ...

Sep 1, 2026
Medical Xpress / Decoding pet talk may help explain how pets affect our well-being

Every "good girl," every "who wants a treat," every one-sided debate with the cat—University of Arizona researchers have found a way to measure it all.

Sep 1, 2026
Medical Xpress / Certain fertility treatments associated with Kawasaki disease risk in children

A large-scale study in Japan led by researchers from the University of Osaka and the Osaka Women's and Children's Hospital found that certain fertility treatments are associated with an increased risk of Kawasaki disease ...

Sep 3, 2026
Medical Xpress / Smart walker boosts walking efficiency and dynamic balance in older adults

Researchers have evaluated a novel smart wheeled walker designed to enhance mobility and safety for aging populations. Published in JMIR Aging, the randomized crossover trial revealed that the smart wheeled walker significantly ...

Sep 1, 2026