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Tech Xplore / Unlocking the 'urban mine': A path to US mineral sovereignty through e-waste

Inside America's junk drawers sits an untapped fortune, and a national and economic security solution. As the global race for critical minerals intensifies, University of Houston researchers have unveiled a breakthrough supply ...

Feb 24, 2026 in Business
Medical Xpress / Lab-grown reservoir cells aim at HIV's last strongholds

A new study has overcome a long-standing challenge: how to isolate and study elusive HIV-infected cells called authentic reservoir clones (ARCs) that evade the immune system, making the disease difficult to cure. Researchers ...

Feb 24, 2026 in HIV & AIDS
Phys.org / Mate choice: How social trends influence mate diversity

Whether people follow a general trend when choosing a partner or consciously decide against it has a noticeable impact on the diversity of phenotypes to choose from. This is shown by a new study by the University of Würzburg.

Feb 24, 2026 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Stimulating mitochondria to boost long-term memory

An international team led by Jaime de Juan-Sanz at the Paris Brain Institute has shown that slightly increasing the metabolic capacity of neurons can enhance long-term memory in both fruit flies and mice. The study, published ...

Feb 24, 2026 in Neuroscience
Phys.org / Hair-width LEDs could eventually replace lasers

LEDs no wider than a human hair could soon take on work traditionally handled by lasers, from moving data inside server racks to powering next-generation displays. New research co-authored by UC Santa Barbara doctoral student ...

Feb 23, 2026 in Physics
Phys.org / Researchers create DNA detection tool to stop spread of invasive Asian swamp eels, bullseye snakeheads

In the canals, marshes, and swamps of the Florida Everglades, invasive fish are silently slipping into new waterways. Among them are the Asian swamp eel and the bullseye snakehead, two air-breathing predators that live in ...

Feb 25, 2026 in Biology
Tech Xplore / 'Probably' doesn't mean the same thing to your AI as it does to you

When a human says an event is "probable" or "likely," people generally have a shared, if fuzzy, understanding of what that means. But when an AI chatbot like ChatGPT uses the same word, it's not assessing the odds the way ...

Feb 24, 2026 in Computer Sciences
Phys.org / Jupiter's Galilean moons may have gained life's building blocks at birth

Southwest Research Institute was part of an international team that demonstrated how complex organic molecules (COMs), key chemical precursors to life, could have been incorporated into Jupiter's Galilean moons during their ...

Feb 23, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / ChatGPT Health: First independent evaluation raises safety questions

ChatGPT Health, a widely used consumer artificial intelligence (AI) tool that provides health guidance directly to the public—including advice about how urgently to seek medical care—may fail to direct users appropriately ...

Feb 24, 2026 in Health informatics
Phys.org / Living tissues are shaped by self-propelled topological defects, biophysicists find

With a new mathematical model, a team of biophysicists has revealed fresh insights into how biological tissues are shaped by the active motion of structural imperfections known as "topological defects." Published in Physical ...

Feb 20, 2026 in Physics
Phys.org / Shorter early-life telomere length could predict survival in Arctic seabirds

A study published in Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology reveals a surprising link between cellular aging markers and survival in black-legged kittiwakes (members of the gull family). In the work titled "Who's coming home? ...

Feb 24, 2026 in Biology
Phys.org / Symbiotic bacteria in planthoppers break record for smallest non-organelle genome ever found

Many insects rely on heritable bacterial endosymbionts for essential nutrients that they cannot get through their diet. A new study, published in Nature Communications, indicates that the genomes of these symbiotic bacteria ...

Feb 20, 2026 in Biology