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Phys.org / Northern map turtles leave Lake Erie before algal blooms peak, tracking finds

Harmful algal blooms pose serious threats to people, animals and the environment. The University of Toledo's Dr. Jeanine Refsnider counts it as a positive discovery that northern map turtles tend to steer clear, as she and ...

Sep 10, 2026
Phys.org / LLM use may threaten freedom of thought and equality across law, journalism and education

The Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley School of Law has released a human rights assessment of the use of large language models (LLMs) in the fields of law, journalism and education.

Sep 9, 2026
Phys.org / Martian air could yield methane rocket fuel with fewer unwanted byproducts

As NASA prepares to send humans to Mars as early as the 2030s, University of Mississippi researchers are working on one of the key questions: How will they get back?

Sep 8, 2026
Phys.org / From flower to fruit: A tug-of-war between growing tissues

Unlike an animal cell, a plant cell can't crawl or migrate. It's locked inside a rigid wall, cemented to its neighbors for life. A cell born at the center of a young fruit will still be there when that fruit ripens.

Sep 10, 2026
Medical Xpress / RNA creates a self-destruct switch for cellular machinery linked to leukemia

Cells have all kinds of intricate machinery to control genes, switching them on and off at the right times and under the right conditions. Components of this machinery include chromatin-modifying complexes, groups of proteins ...

Sep 10, 2026
Phys.org / Giant impacts may strip small icy moons of subsurface oceans

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists used simulations to understand the role disruptive impacts play on icy moons with subsurface oceans in our solar system. A recent paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy ...

Sep 8, 2026
Phys.org / 'Here, There and Everywhere': The Beatles have permeated research papers across academic disciplines

More than 3,000 scientific article titles across disciplines have made use of Beatles song titles and lyrics, according to a study published in PLOS One by Gabriel Budel of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands ...

Sep 9, 2026
Phys.org / Did wildfires help spark the invention of pottery?

A new study suggests that a period of intense fires and landscape upheaval in the ancient southern Levant may have helped create the conditions that led Neolithic communities to discover how fire could transform clay.

Sep 8, 2026
Phys.org / AI D-Day weather forecast falters under pressure

Today's best weather computers would still have struggled to accurately predict the weather for the D-Day landings, University of Reading research shows. The new research, published in the journal Weather ahead of the release ...

Sep 9, 2026
Medical Xpress / New research reveals underlying mechanisms of eye inflammation

A new study published in The American Journal of Pathology provides new evidence that immune cells enter the retina via the body's standard pathway, identifying PECAM as the gatekeeper and neutrophils as proresolving mediators. ...

Sep 12, 2026
Medical Xpress / Major psychiatric risk gene linked to myelin and brain communication

A new Northwestern Medicine study suggests a major psychiatric risk gene remains important well into adulthood and may influence brain communication, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Sep 8, 2026
Medical Xpress / Platinum chemotherapy may cause decades' worth of DNA changes in children's healthy cells

The amount of DNA damage caused by certain chemotherapies used to effectively treat childhood cancer has been revealed, along with a hidden impact on the liver, paving the way for future research into new ways to mitigate ...

Sep 10, 2026