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Tech Xplore / Cheaper brass coatings for aircraft parts and pipelines move closer to real-world field repairs

Researchers from Skoltech—a VEB.RF group institution—have, for the first time, deposited a brass-based composite coating with reinforcing particles on a stainless steel part using low-pressure cold spraying. The technique ...

Jun 8, 2026
Phys.org / Q&A: Expert discusses 250 years of sports in the United States

Sports in the United States look very different than they did when the nation was founded 250 years ago, according to Mark Dyreson, professor of kinesiology and history at Penn State. But one thing has remained constant—sport ...

Jun 8, 2026
Tech Xplore / Supersonic— NASA's X-59 breaks the sound barrier for the first time

On June 5, 2026, NASA's experimental X-59 aircraft flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time, setting the stage for demonstrating its quiet supersonic capabilities later this year.

Jun 8, 2026
Medical Xpress / South and Southeast Asia lead the world on taxing sugary drinks, analysis reveals

One of the challenges public health officials face in reducing diet-related disease is the relatively easy and inexpensive access to sugar-sweetened beverages globally. To help address this burden, public health organizations ...

Jun 8, 2026
Phys.org / Strange winds on seven hot Jupiters reveal strongest signs yet of exoplanet magnetic activity

A team of astronomers has found the strongest evidence yet that some planets outside our solar system may be magnetic. Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) and the Gemini North telescope, ...

Jun 2, 2026
Phys.org / A very strong El Niño is approaching. Here's what we can expect

El Niño is a recurring climate event with impacts across the globe. It has three phases: one cold (known as La Niña), one neutral, and one warm (El Niño).

Jun 3, 2026
Medical Xpress / Study proposes reconsidering how histone deacetylase inhibitors work in cancer treatment

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions are challenging the traditional understanding of how cancer drugs called histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors function. For decades, scientists believed ...

Jun 7, 2026
Tech Xplore / Apple tries again on AI, turns to Google for help

Apple unveiled an artificial intelligence overhaul for the iPhone on Monday, turning to Google for help two years after the company stumbled in its first attempt.

Jun 8, 2026
Medical Xpress / Children's well-being plummets across 29 states, report finds

The kids are not all right, at least in the United States, according to a new report showing a nosedive in children's well-being from 2019 to 2024. In 29 states, the overall U.S. score fell from 553 to 547 on a 1,000-point ...

Jun 8, 2026
Medical Xpress / Egg allergy rates declining in Australia

Australian guidelines recommending eggs be introduced into a child's diet in the first year of life have seen the number of children with egg allergy drop by 17%, researchers have found.

Jun 8, 2026
Phys.org / Single cell transforms into cannibalistic 'supergiant,' swallowing its clones whole

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have discovered a microscopic organism that can transform into a cannibalistic "supergiant" that drastically changes size, shape, and behavior, and abandons filter-feeding ...

Jun 2, 2026
Tech Xplore / Social media accounts uncover how fake jobs trap people in cross-border scam compounds

Under the pretext of employment prospects, hundreds of thousands of job seekers are lured by scammers to cross the border into countries such as Myanmar, Laos or Cambodia. Instead of the promised lucrative positions, they ...

Jun 8, 2026