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Phys.org / Image: Meltwater turns iceberg A-23A blue

The year that iceberg A-23A first broke away from Antarctica's Filchner Ice Shelf, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the movie "Top Gun" was setting box office records. Forty years later, the massive tabular ...

Jan 8, 2026 in Earth
Medical Xpress / Immune sabotage: How a Vitamin A byproduct compromises the body's normal anti-cancer response

Scientists at the Princeton University Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have identified novel mechanisms by which a metabolic derivative of vitamin A—all-trans retinoic acid—compromises both the body's ...

Jan 6, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / Up to 4,700 metric tons of litter flows down the Rhine each year

The river Rhine is estimated to carry between 3,000 and 4,700 metric tons of macrolitter—pieces of litter larger than 25 millimeters in size—towards the North Sea every year, according to research published in Communications ...

Jan 8, 2026 in Earth
Phys.org / UK marine heat wave research priorities outlined in new national roadmap

Marine heat waves (MHWs) are periods of unusually warm sea temperatures, recognized as one of the fastest emerging climate-related drivers of change in the ocean.

Jan 8, 2026 in Earth
Medical Xpress / AI uncovers two distinct multiple sclerosis types

Artificial intelligence (AI), using a simple blood test combined with standard brain images has, for the first time, been able to identify two biologically distinct types of multiple sclerosis (MS), in research led by UCL ...

Medical Xpress / Vitamin C may help protect fertility from a harmful environmental chemical

A new discovery at the University of Missouri reveals that vitamin C may help protect reproductive health from a harmful environmental chemical. Using a fish model, researchers found that exposure to potassium perchlorate, ...

Jan 6, 2026 in Health
Medical Xpress / Touch-free health monitoring could breathe new life into health diagnostics

A new development in wireless sensing technology that can reliably screen for five common pulmonary diseases could lead to new forms of touch-free diagnostics.

Medical Xpress / People as young as 50 can need a hip replacement. Here's everything you need to know about this common surgery

Around 117,000 people living in England and Wales had a hip replacement in 2024. Although hip replacements are often thought of as a surgery that mainly older people need, reports from previous years show that around 43% ...

Jan 8, 2026 in Surgery
Phys.org / Worms as particle sweepers: How simple movement, not intelligence, drives environmental order

When observing small worms under a microscope, one might observe something very surprising: the worms appear to make a sweeping motion to clean their own environment. Physicists at the University of Amsterdam, Georgia Tech ...

Jan 5, 2026 in Physics
Tech Xplore / Meta signs three nuclear power deals to help support its AI data centers

Facebook parent Meta has reached nuclear power deals with three companies as it continues to look for electricity sources for its artificial intelligence data centers.

Jan 9, 2026 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Engineers demonstrate smallest all-printed infrared photodetectors to date

A research team led by Professor Leo Tianshuo Zhao from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Hong Kong (HKU), has developed the world's smallest fully printed ...

Phys.org / How well-meaning allies increase stress for marginalized people

Someone in the office makes a racially insensitive comment, and a white co-worker asks a Black colleague to help correct the offender.

Jan 6, 2026 in Other Sciences