All News

Phys.org / Physicists trace the sun's magnetic engine, 200,000 kilometers below its surface

Every eleven years, the sun's magnetic field flips. Sunspots—dark, cooler regions on the sun's surface that mark intense magnetic activity and often trigger solar eruptions—appear at mid-latitudes and migrate toward the ...

13 hours ago
Phys.org / Quantum-inspired laser system delivers distance measurements with sub-millimeter accuracy

A new laser range-finding technique, inspired by quantum physics, that can measure distances under strong solar background has been demonstrated by researchers at the University of Bristol. The team has proved their hypothesis ...

12 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Could an anti-aging therapy worsen myelin loss? Findings raise caution and MS clues

A two-drug combination frequently used in anti-aging research causes brain damage in mice, report University of Connecticut researchers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The findings, titled "Senolytic ...

12 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Why some moments endure: Episodic memory encoding fluctuates with brain's theta rhythms

For almost a century, psychologists and neuroscientists have been trying to understand how humans memorize different types of information, ranging from knowledge or facts to the recollection of important events. Past studies ...

21 hours ago
Phys.org / Carbon nanotube 'black paint' absorbs terahertz radiation to cut 6G interference

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, have created an important building block for future 6G communication technology, which will make wireless data transfer at superior ...

12 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Implantable 'charging station' boosts fight against cancer

Immunotherapy has transformed cancer treatment by harnessing the body's own immune system to fight disease. But many engineered immune cells lose strength quickly after they enter the body, especially inside tumors that actively ...

11 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Using AI to improve standard-of-care cardiac imaging

Heart disease is the leading cause of adult death worldwide, making cardiovascular disease diagnosis and management a global health priority. An echocardiogram, or cardiac ultrasound, is one of the most commonly used imaging ...

11 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Record efficiency achieved for perovskite-silicon triple-junction solar cells

Researchers from the Photovoltaics and Thin-Film Electronics Laboratory (PV-Lab) in EPFL's School of Engineering and CSEM have developed a new solar cell that combines exceptional voltage, high efficiency, and scalable manufacturing. ...

13 hours ago
Phys.org / What's in your lipstick and water? New test flags hidden mutagens

Substances capable of mutating human genetic material—altering and permanently damaging it—are present in many everyday products. Researchers at Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) have, for the first time, detected ...

12 hours ago
Phys.org / Graphene sensors stay stable in liquids, boosting sensitivity up to 20 times

Accurately measuring small shifts in biological markers, like proteins and neurotransmitters, or harmful chemicals in the water supply, can identify critical problems before they have a chance to impact patients or the environment. ...

12 hours ago
Phys.org / Asteroid Bennu's rugged surface baffled NASA—now, we finally know why

In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged world covered in large boulders, with few of the smooth patches that earlier observations from Earth-based ...

14 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Compostable robot endures over 1 million uses before becoming plant food

The rapid proliferation of robots and electronic devices is placing the world under a new and growing environmental burden. According to the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), global electronic waste ...

13 hours ago