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Tech Xplore / Wary of news media, Silicon Valley builds its own

When OpenAI acquired the tech podcast TBPN this week, it wasn't just buying a show—it was buying a message.

Apr 4, 2026
Medical Xpress / Reprogramming 'gatekeeper' immune cell may boost cancer immunotherapy

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have discovered how tumors disable immune "gatekeeper" cells that alert the rest of the immune system to the presence of cancer—and how restoring their energy production can ...

Apr 2, 2026
Phys.org / Stretching metals can tune catalysis: A new method predicts energy shifts

Heterogeneous catalysis—in which catalysts and reactants are of different phases, e.g., solid and gas—is important to many industrial processes and often involves solid metal as the catalyst. Ammonia synthesis, catalytic ...

Apr 1, 2026
Phys.org / Quantum researchers engineer extremely precise phonon lasers

When lasers were invented in the 1960s, they opened new avenues for scientific discovery and everyday applications, from scanners at the grocery store to corrective eye surgery. Conventional lasers control photons—individual ...

Mar 30, 2026
Phys.org / Chaos shapes how meandering rivers change over time, research shows

Rivers are rarely the calm, orderly streams we imagine on maps. Over time, their winding paths—called meanders—shift, bend, and occasionally snap off in sudden "cutoff" events that shorten loops and reshape the landscape. ...

Apr 1, 2026
Medical Xpress / Sleep cleans the brain: Researchers develop fast, non-invasive way to measure the process

Sleep helps the brain to cleanse itself—and now this process can be measured in humans entirely noninvasively. Researchers at the University of Oulu have developed a method that allows the increased movement of brain fluids ...

Mar 31, 2026
Medical Xpress / Scientists discover how multiple sclerosis kills neurons

For decades, multiple sclerosis research has focused on myelin, the insulation around the brain's wiring. Scientists paid less attention to another loss that was happening in parallel: neurons in the cortex, the seat of higher ...

Apr 1, 2026
Phys.org / Microscopic coils and coffee trees lead to new fungal discovery

Yunnan Province in southwestern China is a global biodiversity hotspot, accommodating an incredible variety of plants and animals. It is also the heart of China's coffee industry, with Yunnan accounting for almost all of ...

Apr 2, 2026
Tech Xplore / Solar energy could be key to making sustainable aviation fuel

A new way of making sustainable aviation fuel that could cut the reliance on used cooking oil as a feedstock has been developed by a team of engineers led by the University of Sheffield. The new technique captures CO2 from ...

Mar 31, 2026
Tech Xplore / Photonic chip packaging can withstand extreme environments

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new way to package photonic integrated circuits—tiny chips that convey information using light instead of electricity—so they can survive ...

Mar 30, 2026
Phys.org / Animals are powerful landscape engineers shaping the Earth's surface, global study finds

Wild animals are not just inhabitants of the natural world. Many also act as natural landscape engineers, reshaping Earth's surface as they burrow, feed, and build shelters that move soil and sediment across ecosystems. From ...

Mar 30, 2026
Phys.org / Artemis II's moon-bound astronauts capture Earth's brilliant blue beauty as they leave it behind

The Artemis II astronauts have captured our blue planet's brilliant beauty as they zoom ever closer to the moon.

Apr 3, 2026