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Medical Xpress / A patch that sticks inside your mouth could spot inflammation early

Detecting gum disease currently requires a dentist chair and a visual exam, often catching problems only after tissue damage has started. To shift care from reactive to proactive, researchers at Texas A&M University have ...

21 hours ago in Health informatics
Tech Xplore / India plans AI 'data city' on staggering scale

As India races to narrow the artificial intelligence gap with the United States and China, it is planning a vast new "data city" to power digital growth on a staggering scale, the man spearheading the project says.

7 hours ago in Machine learning & AI
Phys.org / 'Proportional representation' could reduce polarization in Congress and help more people feel heard

In the face of widespread pessimism about the political fate of the United States and growing political polarization, scholars and citizens across the country are reimagining how American democracy could better serve the ...

4 hours ago in Other Sciences
Phys.org / More than a feeling: Thinking about love as a virtue can change how we respond to hate

Love and hate seem like obvious opposites. Love, whether romantic or otherwise, involves a sense of warmth and affection for others. Hate involves feelings of disdain. Love builds up, whereas hate destroys.

17 hours ago in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Replacing humans with machines is leaving truckloads of food stranded and unusable

Supermarket shelves can look full despite the food systems underneath them being under strain. Fruit may be stacked neatly, chilled meat may be in place. It appears that supply chains are functioning well. But appearances ...

22 hours ago in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Deep-sea fish larvae rewrite the rules of how eyes can be built

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth's strangest creatures.

19 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / Inside Asia's Amazon—camera traps reveal the secrets of the Annamite Mountains

A camera-trap survey conducted throughout 2025 has revealed the bewildering breadth of biodiversity hidden within the Annamite Mountains, a largely unexplored forest haven stretching for 1,100 kilometers through Laos and ...

20 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / Distrust and disempowerment, not apathy, keep employees from supporting marginalized colleagues

What really holds people back from stepping up as allies in support of their marginalized colleagues? For example, why don't more men say something when they see a colleague or a customer make a sexist remark about a female ...

18 hours ago in Other Sciences
Phys.org / When it comes to homelessness, what we call 'compassion fatigue' is something else entirely

The 20th-century French philosopher Simone Weil once said that compassion was an impossibility. She said it is "a more astounding miracle than walking on water." The word she used for meeting the needs of the sufferer is ...

20 hours ago in Other Sciences
Phys.org / When AI meets physics: Unlocking complex protein structures to accelerate biomedical breakthroughs

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how scientists understand proteins—these are working molecules that drive nearly every process in the human body, from cell growth and immune defense to digestion and cell signaling. ...

23 hours ago in Biology
Dialog / Old galaxies in a young universe?

The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to 13.8 billion years and much younger when we explore the universe at high-redshift. The redshift ...

Feb 10, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Astronomers trace a star's three-year infrared glow to black hole birth

In 2014, a NASA telescope observed that the infrared light emitted by a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy gradually grew brighter. The star glowed more intensely with infrared light for around three years before fading ...

23 hours ago in Astronomy & Space