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Medical Xpress / Treating disease at birth: How a brief spike in testosterone sets the trajectory for disease that appears decades later

Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is a rare inherited disease that causes progressive muscle weakness and wasting in men. Patients typically develop early symptoms such as hand tremors in their 30s, but diagnosis ...

Mar 27, 2026
Medical Xpress / Scientists pinpoint a skin alarm system pathway that links local damage to systemic immune responses

Skin, our largest organ, acts as a protective barrier against pathogens that try to invade our bodies while constantly monitoring for potential threats. In the skin's outermost layer, the epidermis, reside keratinocytes, ...

Mar 23, 2026
Phys.org / Electronics of the future: Ultra-efficient graphene switch developed at nanometer scale

A team of researchers from Tel Aviv University, in collaboration with colleagues from Japan, has taken an important step toward the next generation of electronics. The scientists achieved highly precise control of the internal ...

Mar 24, 2026
Phys.org / Fieldoscopy reveals femtosecond optical switching in 15 nm indium tin oxide nanocrystals

Just as an antenna interacts with radio waves, light interacts with metallic nanostructures. Therefore, understanding how a structure influences field oscillations provides valuable insights into the structure's physical ...

Mar 26, 2026
Phys.org / Bio-based polymer offers a sustainable solution to 'forever chemical' cleanup

Researchers at the University of Bath have discovered a renewable, bio-based polymer membrane capable of efficiently capturing toxic "forever chemicals" from water, offering a potential new route to more sustainable water ...

Mar 24, 2026
Medical Xpress / AI model can predict chemotherapy benefit in breast cancer

Deciding whether to administer chemotherapy after surgery is one of the most challenging questions in early-stage breast cancer care. While chemotherapy can reduce the risk of recurrence, most patients do not benefit from ...

Mar 28, 2026
Medical Xpress / New tool rates diet misinformation by potential for harm, not just true or false

A new tool that not only identifies diet and nutrition misinformation online but also evaluates the content's risk for potential harm has been developed by a team of UCL researchers. The work has been published in Scientific ...

Mar 27, 2026
Phys.org / Radio signals at the edge of extreme stars come from far beyond their surfaces

Pulsars are ultra-dense, rapidly spinning, and highly magnetized remnants of dead stars. They act like cosmic lighthouses, sending out regular pulses of radio waves and sometimes gamma rays in beams that sweep across the ...

Mar 25, 2026
Phys.org / Boys ditch books when schools close—girls keep reading: Study

When holidays or pandemics shut down schools, gender differences in children's reading habits widen; boys stop reading, while girls continue, according to a new study from the University of Copenhagen. The researchers say ...

Mar 24, 2026
Medical Xpress / Self-management of warfarin dose is safe, effective and empowering, clinical trial shows

Warfarin is an oral anticoagulant, commonly known as blood thinner, that is prescribed to help treat the formation of dangerous blood clots that can lead to stroke or heart attacks. Even with newer medications on the market, ...

Mar 23, 2026
Phys.org / How AI English and human English differ—and how to decide when to use artificial language

Suspicion and affection. Apprehension and excitement. Most people have mixed feelings about AI English, whether or not they always recognize it. When reading text generated by AI, people feel it sounds off, or fake. When ...

Mar 28, 2026
Phys.org / Shell-cracking turtles defied mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period

The mass extinction at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods was catastrophic, wiping out much of life on Earth. Vertebrate groups that dominated at the time, such as dinosaurs and many large marine reptiles, ...

Mar 25, 2026