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Tech Xplore / Harry Potter-style 'moving invisibility cloak' technology developed

What do Harry Potter's invisibility cloak and stealth fighter jets that evade radar have in common? They both make objects invisible despite their physical presence. Building upon this concept, a research team has taken it ...

Tech Xplore / How AI helps solve problems it doesn't even understand

Researchers at TU Wien have discovered an unexpected connection between two very different areas of artificial intelligence: Large Language Models (LLMs) can help solve logical problems—without actually "understanding" ...

Dec 16, 2025 in Computer Sciences
Phys.org / Ancient genetic 'start' signal found in bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes

A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes.

Dec 15, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / FDA adds brain tumor warning to Depo-Provera birth control shot

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new safety warning for Depo-Provera, a widely used birth control shot made by Pfizer, alerting patients to a possible risk for a type of brain tumor called meningioma.

Dec 18, 2025 in Obstetrics & gynaecology
Medical Xpress / AI model helps diagnose often undetected heart disease from simple EKG

Doctors may soon be able to diagnose an elusive form of heart disease within seconds by using an AI model developed at University of Michigan, according to a recent study.

Dec 16, 2025 in Cardiology
Phys.org / The dinosaurs that forgot how to fly

A new study led by a researcher from the School of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv University examined dinosaur fossils preserved with their feathers and found that these dinosaurs had lost ...

Dec 16, 2025 in Biology
Phys.org / Report challenges climate change as sole trigger of Syrian Civil War, exposing governance failures in drought response

The Syrian civil war, which began in 2011, has been widely framed as a "climate conflict" and a mass migration and uprising triggered by a severe drought. This very well-known and media-popular narrative is now debunked in ...

Dec 18, 2025 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Researchers seek better, safer alternatives to current opioid drugs

Researchers at USF Health are making dramatic strides in understanding how new opioid compounds work inside the body to provide pain relief, offering greater hope that new classes of these drugs may eventually be used to ...

Dec 18, 2025 in Medications
Tech Xplore / Researchers reveal bias in a widely used measure of algorithm performance

When scientists test algorithms that sort or classify data, they often turn to a trusted tool called Normalized Mutual Information (or NMI) to measure how well an algorithm's output matches reality. But according to new research, ...

Dec 16, 2025 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / Engineers develop real-time membrane imaging for sustainable water filtration

CU Boulder researchers have introduced a solution to improving the performance of large-scale desalination plants: stimulated Raman scattering (SRS).

Dec 16, 2025 in Engineering
Medical Xpress / How a healthy gut could help your baby sleep better

When babies struggle with poor sleep, parents often suffer right alongside them. Growing evidence shows that a baby's gut health plays a key role in comfort, digestion and overall sleep quality. Supporting a healthy gut microbiome ...

Dec 18, 2025 in Pediatrics
Tech Xplore / New 3D benchmark leaves AI in knots

Today's artificial intelligence models can't even tie their own shoes.

Dec 16, 2025 in Computer Sciences