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Medical Xpress / Study finds gaps in support service use among older breast cancer patients

A study published in the Journal of Geriatric Oncology highlights a significant gap in the care of older adults with breast cancer: While many face age-related risks that could complicate treatment, a majority decline supportive ...

Sep 4, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Tech Xplore / Over 16,000 compromised servers uncovered using Secure Shell key probing method

An international research team from the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany, and the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands has developed a method to detect compromised hosts at ...

Sep 1, 2025 in Internet
Phys.org / BlueDOGs might evolve from Little Red Dots

One of the most difficult parts of astronomy is understanding how time affects it. The farther away you look in the universe, the farther back you look in time. One way this complicates things is how objects might change ...

Sep 4, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Most enduring and biggest iceberg breaks apart, with more splintering to come in its death spiral

The world's largest and most enduring iceberg is splintering into smaller pieces, to the point that it's no longer the biggest chunk of ice floating in the oceans.

Sep 4, 2025 in Earth
Phys.org / Microscale mixing without turbulence: Scientists discover limits to information erasure in viscous fluids

In turbulent fluids, mixing of the components happens easily. However, in more viscous fluids such as those enclosed within cellular compartments, the intermixing of particles and molecules is much more challenging. As time ...

Sep 1, 2025 in Physics
Phys.org / Antibiotics instead of images: Generative AI designs molecules that kill drug-resistant bacteria

What if generative AI could design life-saving antibiotics, not just art and text? In a new Cell Biomaterials paper, Penn researchers introduce AMP-Diffusion, a generative AI tool used to create tens of thousands of new antimicrobial ...

Sep 2, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / U.S. survey finds salt substitutes rarely used by people with high blood pressure

Few people with high blood pressure were using salt substitutes, even though they are a simple and effective way to lower sodium intake and manage blood pressure, according to preliminary research presented at the American ...

Sep 4, 2025 in Health
Medical Xpress / Findings on how immune cells use zinc to fight infections challenge long-held beliefs

A research team from Umeå University, Sweden, in collaboration with Ghent University, Belgium, has made a groundbreaking discovery about how the body's first immune defense, neutrophils, orchestrate the mobilization of zinc ...

Sep 4, 2025 in Immunology
Phys.org / Shaping future electronics with light: Experiment demonstrates ultrafast light control of ferroelectric properties

Ferroelectrics are seen as promising candidates for the electronics of tomorrow. An experiment at the world's largest X-ray laser—the European XFEL in Schenefeld near Hamburg—now shows that their properties can be controlled ...

Sep 1, 2025 in Physics
Phys.org / Amazon's Starlink rival lands first major airline deal

JetBlue Airways will become the first airline to use Amazon's Project Kuiper satellite network to power its in-flight Wi‑Fi service, the companies announced Wednesday, as the online retail giant tries to challenge the dominance ...

Sep 4, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Researchers pioneer optical generative models, ushering in a new era of sustainable generative AI

In a major leap for artificial intelligence (AI) and photonics, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have created optical generative models capable of producing novel images using the physics of ...

Aug 31, 2025 in Physics
Medical Xpress / A widening divide: Global health research risks drifting away from real-world disease needs, study warns

There's good news and bad news in the world of global health research. The good news is that the gap between what health scientists are studying and the actual worldwide disease burden has narrowed since 1999. That's according ...

Sep 2, 2025 in Medical research