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Medical Xpress / Diabetes management in disadvantaged communities improves significantly with financial incentives, study finds

Managing type 2 diabetes is a demanding daily task involving diet, exercise, and often a complex regimen of medications. For patients facing financial hardship, the cost of these life-saving drugs can become a barrier to ...

Feb 3, 2026 in Diabetes
Tech Xplore / Oxygen-modified graphene filters boost natural gas purification

As we shift toward more sustainable fuels, natural gas and biogas, which mainly contain methane (CH4), have become important sources of energy and raw materials for chemical production. However, these gases also contain impurities ...

Feb 3, 2026 in Energy & Green Tech
Phys.org / NASA hit by fuel leaks during a practice countdown of the moon rocket that will fly with astronauts

NASA ran into exasperating fuel leaks during a make-or-break test of its new moon rocket Monday, calling into question how soon astronauts could take off for a trip around the moon.

Feb 3, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Tech Xplore / Building with air: How nature's hole-filled blueprints shape manufacturing

If you break open a chicken bone, you won't find a solid mass of white material inside. Instead, you will see a complex, spongelike network of tiny struts and pillars, and a lot of empty space.

Feb 3, 2026 in Engineering
Phys.org / The infant universe's 'primordial soup' was actually soupy, study finds

In its first moments, the infant universe was a trillion-degree-hot soup of quarks and gluons. These elementary particles zinged around at light speed, creating a "quark-gluon plasma" that lasted for only a few millionths ...

Jan 28, 2026 in Physics
Phys.org / Western Cascades forests historically saw more fire than previously thought, study indicates

New research led by a University of Oregon ecologist suggests that fire was historically more frequent in the Douglas fir forests of the western Oregon Cascade Range than previously believed.

Feb 3, 2026 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Photon-counting CT outperforms conventional CT in lung cancer management

In a prospective imaging study of 200 adults with lung cancer, photon-counting CT reduced radiation exposure, yielded fewer adverse reactions and provided higher image quality and better detection of malignant features compared ...

Feb 3, 2026 in Radiology & Imaging
Phys.org / A world-first mouse that makes gene activity visible

DNA can be thought of as a vast library that stores all genetic information. Cells do not use this information all at once. Instead, they copy only the necessary parts into RNA, which is then used to produce proteins—the ...

Jan 31, 2026 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Education matters more than income to reduce premature adult mortality in India, finds study

IIASA researchers explored why mortality among adults of working age remains high in India alongside rapid economic growth, finding that education—at both individual and community levels—is more strongly associated with ...

Feb 3, 2026 in Health
Medical Xpress / Paid sick leave can function as disease prevention

Home service workers—those who provide care, inspections, or repairs inside private homes—can often lack paid sick leave, making illness a direct financial risk. New research from George Mason University College of Public ...

Feb 3, 2026 in Medical economics
Phys.org / Fossil hunters uncover 132-million-year-old dinosaur footprints on South Africa's coast

Southern Africa is world renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very distant past, including dinosaurs. But, about 182 million years ago, a huge eruption of lava covered much of the landscape (the inland ...

Jan 31, 2026 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Study shows strong evidence for effectiveness of metastasis-directed radiation therapy in prostate cancer

Metastasis-directed therapy (MDT) significantly improved outcomes in patients with oligometastatic prostate cancer, according to a new study from researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center published ...

Feb 3, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer