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Tech Xplore / Rise of the rice robots—creating active smart materials

Rice becomes weaker when compressed quickly, while staying stronger under slow pressure—a discovery enabling scientists to design a new material that could be used to build "soft" robots that change stiffness automatically ...

Feb 24, 2026 in Robotics
Tech Xplore / Can smart cameras improve evacuations? A new approach to smarter crowd mapping

Emergency evacuations during natural disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis increasingly rely on advanced technology to effectively assess real-time crowd movement and points of congestion. Disaster-preparedness involves ...

Feb 27, 2026 in Engineering
Medical Xpress / Cell signaling step sharpens understanding of how the body responds to exercise's energy demands

Researchers have investigated the role of a certain enzyme in regulating energy in muscle and exercise performance for decades, but a new study by Virginia Tech scientists has identified more precisely than ever how this ...

Feb 25, 2026 in Endocrinology & Metabolism
Phys.org / Targeted climate policies are successfully cutting carbon, study shows

Countries with stricter and better-targeted climate policies cut carbon emissions faster, according to a major new study by researchers in the UK and EU. The study draws on the most comprehensive climate policy dataset ever ...

Feb 24, 2026 in Earth
Phys.org / Climate change could fragment habitat for monarch butterflies, disrupting mass migration

Suitable habitat for migrating monarch butterflies will shift southwards because of climate change, according to a study published in PLOS Climate by Francisco Botello and Carolina Ureta at the National Autonomous University ...

Feb 25, 2026 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Keeping neurons on the right path: Scientists identify key driver of cortical layering during brain development

The cerebral cortex, the brain's outermost region responsible for higher cognitive functions, depends on a highly ordered, layered structure. Its proper development requires newly generated neurons to migrate to precise locations ...

Feb 25, 2026 in Neuroscience
Phys.org / Mate choice: How social trends influence mate diversity

Whether people follow a general trend when choosing a partner or consciously decide against it has a noticeable impact on the diversity of phenotypes to choose from. This is shown by a new study by the University of Würzburg.

Feb 24, 2026 in Biology
Medical Xpress / 'Off the shelf' immunotherapy could get a lift from gene-edited natural killer cells

Since scientists first discovered that human immune cells could be modified to become cancer-fighting agents, they've been trying to engineer a cell that's effective against solid tumors, which account for the vast majority ...

Feb 25, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / Scent vs. brand image: What an EEG study reveals about luxury marketing

Sungkyunkwan University announced that a research team has identified, through EEG (electroencephalogram) analysis, the impact of "fragrance" on consumers' emotions, memory, and deep emotional bonds with luxury brands. Going ...

Feb 27, 2026 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / AI accurately spots medical disorder from privacy-conscious hand images

An AI can accurately diagnose a rare endocrinological condition just by analyzing pictures of the back of the hand and the clenched fist. The privacy-conscious achievement by Kobe University holds promise for establishing ...

Feb 27, 2026 in Health informatics
Tech Xplore / Solvent‑free perovskite solar cell technology could pave way for scalable production

Researchers at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have developed a multi-source co-evaporation recipe that markedly enhances the crystal quality of vacuum-deposited perovskite films. This advance brings ...

Feb 24, 2026 in Energy & Green Tech
Medical Xpress / Why our immune system remembers vaccinations for decades

Why can the human immune system often remember a vaccination for a whole lifetime? Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen have now investigated this question. ...

Feb 24, 2026 in Immunology