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Medical Xpress / Preclinical study points to cancer drugs as possible treatments for chronic nerve pain

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have found new evidence that BRAF, a protein commonly involved in cancer, plays a key role in developing, amplifying and maintaining chronic pain caused by ...

Aug 29, 2026
Phys.org / The crisis in cosmology continues: Critical problems in a recent defense of cosmic acceleration

Doubts about the standard model of cosmology are deepening after a new study identified fundamental problems in a recent analysis that defended the conventional view that the universe is currently undergoing accelerated expansion ...

Aug 26, 2026
Phys.org / Utah mountain ranges may store a billion tons of hidden ice

Unlike conventional glaciers, rock glaciers appear as piles of rock that obscure large masses of unaccounted-for ice. Rock glaciers are common in the Wasatch and Uinta ranges, even appearing on the Colorado Plateau in the ...

Aug 26, 2026
Phys.org / Roman telescope aims to directly image exoplanets 1,000 times fainter than current limits

The Roman Space Telescope is designed to directly image exoplanets using complex optomechanical systems developed by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

Aug 26, 2026
Medical Xpress / New global definition of myocardial infarction aims to improve diagnosis, treatment and patient understanding

When a myocardial infarction, such as a heart attack, occurs, being able to classify its type can improve diagnosis and treatment. For the first time, a universal definition of myocardial infarction has been developed and ...

Aug 30, 2026
Phys.org / Nano-antennas make living cells light up brighter and faster

Researchers at Delft University of Technology have demonstrated for the first time that nano-antennas can enhance the fluorescence of proteins in living human and other mammalian cells. Scientists already use smart fluorescent ...

Aug 28, 2026
Medical Xpress / Heart failure drugs may work within days by boosting cells' energy supply

Researchers have discovered that SGLT2 inhibitors, a class of drugs originally developed to treat diabetes and now widely used for heart failure, work by activating a key enzyme that helps heart cells produce and use energy ...

Aug 27, 2026
Medical Xpress / Largest ever molecular map of autism opens new paths to precision therapies

For more than two decades, researchers have identified hundreds of genes that increase the risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Yet multiple fundamental questions have remained unanswered: Among them, how do mutations ...

Aug 27, 2026
Phys.org / Scientists melted a diamond and cracked a secret of ice giants

Some of the strangest weather in the solar system doesn't happen on Earth or even in Jupiter's Great Red Spot—it happens in the interiors of ice giants like Neptune and Uranus. Specifically, scientists have long believed ...

Aug 29, 2026
Medical Xpress / New combination therapy shows promise in metastatic pancreatic cancer

Results from an early-stage clinical trial, published in Nature Communications, showed encouraging outcomes among patients with newly diagnosed cancer whose tumors had spread to distant organs. Most strikingly, one patient ...

Aug 28, 2026
Medical Xpress / Heart, body and mind—the first ESC Guidelines highlight the many benefits of cardiac rehabilitation

The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines on cardiac rehabilitation have been published online today in the European Heart Journal. The new guidelines will be presented at ESC Congress 2026 on Aug. 31.

Aug 30, 2026
Phys.org / Tracks and tooth marks reveal bone-crushing dogs at Nebraska supervolcano ashfall site

Thirty-five years on—well, 12 million, technically—Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park continues to offer important glimpses of prehistoric life in Nebraska.

Aug 28, 2026