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Phys.org / College professors face an emerging challenge: We know students are no longer reading entire books

Anyone who has spent time on a college campus lately has probably heard laments from faculty about their students' reading habits, or rather, nonreading habits. Such complaints are more than unfounded nostalgia for a bygone ...

Jul 23, 2026
Phys.org / New insights into how DNA, the body's instruction manual for life, is regulated

Scientists at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Center have uncovered new insights into how cells regulate DNA methylation, a fundamental process that helps keep potentially harmful viral elements in our genome under control.

Jul 21, 2026
Tech Xplore / Novel method lets multimodal AI update knowledge without losing earlier information

Korean researchers have developed a core technology that allows multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) to reliably retain existing knowledge while repeatedly learning new information.

Jul 23, 2026
Phys.org / New simulation challenges leading explanation for why galaxies stop forming stars

For decades, astronomers have cast galaxy mergers as the universe's ultimate relationship drama: two galaxies collide, chaos erupts, black holes awaken and star formation comes to a screeching halt. Upending this long-held ...

Jul 21, 2026
Phys.org / Hundreds hospitalized in Japan heat wave 'disaster'

More than 450 people received hospital treatment for heat-related issues in a single day in Tokyo—the highest number since records began 16 years ago, emergency services said Thursday.

Jul 23, 2026
Tech Xplore / Airbus, Boeing fly in different directions at Farnborough

Airbus and Boeing presented differing outlooks for their commercial aircraft in coming years as the aviation sector gathered near London for this week's Farnborough airshow.

Jul 23, 2026
Medical Xpress / Two ways to read a genome: Body-wide, single-cell atlas maps DNA folding and methylation together

Every cell in the human body carries the same 3 billion letters of DNA, yet a neuron, a heart muscle cell and a pancreatic beta cell each use that shared code to do entirely different jobs. How cells pull off this trick comes ...

Jul 23, 2026
Phys.org / Early respiratory infections may lower higher education completion and adult income

Infants exposed to respiratory illnesses through older siblings typically fare worse in education, income and health in adulthood, according to new research from the University of Copenhagen.

Jul 22, 2026
Phys.org / Recoverable molecular helper guides synthesis of highly pure chiral rotaxanes

Chiral molecules can exist in left- and right-handed forms. Although these mirror-image forms may look almost identical, they can behave very differently in chemical reactions, biological systems and advanced materials. Preparing ...

Jul 23, 2026
Medical Xpress / Poll: Costs are top health care issue for midterm voters, but fraud tops GOP list

Health care costs top the list of voters' health care priorities for the midterm elections, with half (51%) of all voters and more than half of Democratic (60%) and independent (55%) voters saying the issue is extremely important ...

Jul 23, 2026
Phys.org / Ancestral variation, not new mutations, may impact survival of species facing climate change

Research co-authored by an Oklahoma Museum of Natural History curator, her graduate student and an international team of scientists has shed new light on the evolutionary "toolkit" animals use to survive environmental change.

Jul 20, 2026
Phys.org / What explains gender pay gaps in academia?

Gender pay gaps in academia are well documented. The harder question is why they persist. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences tested several leading answers to that question.

Jul 20, 2026