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Phys.org / Severe violence rises in youth sexual assaults in Sweden, medical records suggest

Physical violence in sexual assaults against young people has become more common and more severe. This is shown in a new doctoral thesis from Karolinska Institutet. The studies cover both women and men and point to the need ...

Feb 19, 2026 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Food insecurity impacts employees' productivity, research finds

Food insecurity can increase anxiety and undermine employees at work, but workplace programs to address it can improve job outcomes, according to research published in the Journal of Applied Psychology.

Feb 19, 2026 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Evidence suggests chatbot disclaimers may backfire, strengthening emotional bonds

Concerns that chatbot use can cause mental and physical harm have prompted policies that require AI chatbots to deliver regular or constant reminders that they are not human. In an opinion appearing in Trends in Cognitive ...

Feb 18, 2026 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Targeted radiation therapy improves quality of life outcomes for patients with multiple brain metastases, finds study

In a Phase III randomized trial, Mass General Brigham researchers found that stereotactic radiation targeting individual tumors led to lower symptom burden, better cognitive outcomes, and better day-to-day function when compared ...

Feb 19, 2026 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Japan panel approves stem cell medical products

Japanese government experts endorsed on Thursday ground-breaking projects to manufacture regenerative medicine products to treat heart diseases and Parkinson's, media reports said.

Feb 19, 2026 in Biomedical technology
Medical Xpress / Big data and human height: Scientists develop algorithm to boost biobank data retrieval and analysis

Extracting and analyzing relevant medical information from large-scale databases such as biobanks poses considerable challenges. To exploit such "big data," attempts have focused on large sampling algorithms that model individual ...

Feb 18, 2026 in Health informatics
Phys.org / JWST spots most distant jellyfish galaxy to date

Astrophysicists from the University of Waterloo have observed a new jellyfish galaxy, the most distant one of its kind ever captured. Jellyfish galaxies are named for the long, tentacle-like streams that trail behind them. ...

Feb 17, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Getting hands-on with LEDs and logic to make science tangible in the classroom

How do you make the complex reality of chips and electronics accessible to a broad audience? TU/e researcher Elles Raaijmakers believes an educational game can do just that. In the game I.C. Tycoon (working title), players ...

Feb 19, 2026 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / New amplifier design promises less noise, more gain for quantum computers

The low-noise, high-gain properties needed for high-performance quantum computing can be realized in a microwave photonic circuit device called a Josephson traveling-wave parametric amplifier (JTWPA), RIKEN researchers have ...

Feb 17, 2026 in Physics
Medical Xpress / Combining GLP-1 drugs with hormones may lower uterine cancer risk

Adding GLP-1 medications like Ozempic to progestin therapy could cut the risk of developing endometrial cancer. A retrospective study published in the journal JAMA Network Open found that women using this combination had ...

Feb 14, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / Antarctica sits above Earth's strongest 'gravity hole.' Now we know how it got that way

Gravity feels reliable—stable and consistent enough to count on. But reality is far stranger than our intuition. In truth, the strength of gravity varies over Earth's surface. And it is weakest beneath the frozen continent ...

Feb 16, 2026 in Earth
Medical Xpress / Early periods and changing fertility patterns may influence ovarian cancer risk

Ovarian cancer is still one of the deadliest gynecological cancers affecting women around the world, especially in East Asian countries, where the numbers keep rising year after year. A new nationwide study in South Korea ...

Feb 16, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer