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Tech Xplore / 'Appy marriages: AI helps hundreds of Japanese wed

A total of 265 couples have married after meeting on an AI-powered dating app launched by the Tokyo government in 2024 to lift Japan's low birth rate, according to official data.

Jul 28, 2026
Tech Xplore / Workplaces look for cheaper AI as 'tokenmaxxing' fades as a corporate fad

A corporate fad of "tokenmaxxing" on artificial intelligence technology is hitting its limits as workplaces throwing AI at everything are seeing the costs rise without a similar spike in productivity.

Jul 28, 2026
Medical Xpress / New wearable ring tracks glucose, ketone and other biomarkers in sweat simultaneously

Engineers at the University of California San Diego created a smart ring that simultaneously and continuously monitors up to four different chemical biomarkers from finger sweat. The biomarkers the smart ring can monitor ...

Jul 24, 2026
Phys.org / Identify birds offline using AI: New app records animal sounds directly on your smartphone

Previous apps for identifying animal calls regularly hit practical limits: Without a stable internet connection, real-time identification in forests or high mountains was impossible.

Jul 27, 2026
Tech Xplore / X adds banking in 'everything app' push

Elon Musk's social media app X on Monday began offering its X Money banking service to all U.S. subscribers of its paid Premium and Premium+ tiers, part of the multibillionaire's ambition to turn the site into an "everything ...

Jul 28, 2026
Science X / Beneath pale ash, a quantum microscope reveals hidden traces of Neanderthal fire use preserved for millennia

An ancient hearth at El Salt (Spain) is giving up its secrets—not with flames, but with physics. Scientists have already established that Neanderthals used to make fires at this site (spanning from 80,000–45,000 years ago), ...

Jul 24, 2026
Phys.org / How NASA plans to build the Habitable Worlds Observatory

We've been covering the journey of the Habitable Worlds Observatory for some time now. Over the past few years, it's gone from a proposal to a relatively fleshed-out plan for how and what the next Great Observatory should ...

Jul 27, 2026
Phys.org / Trace molecules emerge as chemical 'keystones' that steer life's communities

In nature, the rarest ingredient can be the one that holds everything together. In a new article published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Dr. Erika C. Freeman of the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries ...

Jul 26, 2026
Phys.org / Diet reveals what life was like 2,700 years ago in an Italian community: Gender inequality, social status and migration

An international study led by the Universities of Córdoba and Pisa used isotopic analysis to reconstruct the dietary traces left in human remains found in an Italian necropolis, revealing what daily life was like in that ...

Jul 27, 2026
Phys.org / Sperm whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep

New research from the University of St Andrews and Université de Neuchâtel has uncovered the mechanism that allows sperm whales to sleep in a unique vertical position just under the ocean surface.

Jul 23, 2026
Medical Xpress / Scientists find compound that may help muscles stay strong as we age

Skeletal muscle is one of the first tissues to decline with age. This decline can lead to weakness, scarring, fat accumulation inside muscle and the loss of fast-twitch muscle fibers that are important for quick, powerful ...

Jul 24, 2026
Phys.org / Kindness emerges intuitively in young children before reflection catches up, study finds

While humans are inherently social beings, psychology studies suggest that their social skills are gradually fine-tuned over time and with experience. Understanding when different social skills emerge and how they typically ...

Jul 22, 2026