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Science X / Who are his people? The 4,000-year hunt for a warrior's kin

For 4,200 years, the Y chromosome of a Yakutian warrior has quietly echoed in Siberia's Arctic peoples. His extraordinary Stone Age grave was discovered in Russia's far northeast near Yakutsk in 2004 by scientists. The middle-aged ...

May 4, 2026
Phys.org / Rare footage of elusive sea-floor creatures and backward-swimming fish captured by compact video-acoustic system

Arctic glacial fjords are hotspots of marine life, yet their seafloor environments remain some of the least explored regions on Earth. Their extreme remoteness and the technical challenges of deep-water observation have led ...

May 6, 2026
Medical Xpress / Not just insulin: Early increases in glucagon in type 2 diabetes are linked to fatty liver disease

Until now, research into type 2 diabetes has focused primarily on insulin: if the body's cells become less responsive to the hormone produced in the pancreas, blood glucose levels rise over the long term. A recent study by ...

May 10, 2026
Tech Xplore / 'I'm not sure'—AI finally learns three words that could make its biggest mistakes far less dangerous

A new approach has been proposed to address the problem of "overconfidence"—one of the most critical risks of artificial intelligence (AI) in areas such as autonomous driving and medical diagnosis, where AI shows high confidence ...

May 10, 2026
Phys.org / Dark proteome yields 1,785 new microproteins that could reshape disease research

Scientists have uncovered more than 1,700 new proteins that could have implications for human diseases, including cancer. Mostly very small, these proteins were found in what's called the "dark proteome," which covers gene ...

May 6, 2026
Medical Xpress / Could the 'Ozempic Era' shift blame for obesity from individuals to the food industry?

An essay presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Istanbul, Turkey (12–15 May) suggests that a new age of obesity drugs could shift the blame for living with obesity from individuals to the food industry—just as smoking ...

May 10, 2026
Phys.org / No trees, no fans: surviving extreme heat in India's salt pans

India faces challenging heat waves each year, but few places endure conditions as searing as the country's western desert salt pans, where workers rely on simple techniques to survive almost unbearable temperatures.

May 10, 2026
Phys.org / Why infected stink bugs lift their wings: Hidden parasite escape caught on camera

Male strepsipterans develop inside a host insect during their larval stage and, upon reaching the adult stage, emerge from the host body to begin a free-living phase. In a new study, researchers at University of Tsukuba directly ...

May 8, 2026
Medical Xpress / Common asthma drug shows promise for reversing fatty liver

MUSC researchers are tackling MASH, or metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis, a liver disease affecting hundreds of millions worldwide. It is also a leading cause of liver transplantation, yet treatment options ...

May 8, 2026
Medical Xpress / Ultrasensitive test detects biomarkers for specific form of dementia

Dementia affects over 57 million people worldwide, a number expected to nearly double in the next 20 years. This permanent loss of cognitive abilities affects daily function and can be caused by multiple brain pathologies, ...

May 10, 2026
Phys.org / A new way to read the universe could sharpen understanding of cosmic expansion and dark energy

An international team led by researchers at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) has developed a new method that could significantly improve our understanding of the expansion of the universe ...

May 6, 2026
Phys.org / When strength in numbers stops working: Climate extremes rewrite monkey society in Costa Rica

As climate change intensifies, scientists are becoming increasingly concerned about how animals will cope with a more unpredictable world. One way to gain insight is by studying how animals have already responded to natural ...

May 6, 2026