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Phys.org / Swarms of AI bots can sway people's beliefs, threatening democracy

In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform's data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts posting content generated by ...

Feb 12, 2026 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Gamma-synced brain stimulation can nudge people to behave less selfishly

Stimulating two brain areas, nudging them to collectively fire in the same way, increases a person's ability to behave altruistically, according to a study published in the PLOS Biology by Jie Hu from East China Normal University ...

Feb 10, 2026 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / Microbiomes interconnect on a planetary scale, new study finds

In a new study published in Cell, scientists in the Bork Group at EMBL Heidelberg reveal that microbes living in similar habitats are more alike than those simply inhabiting the same geographical region. By analyzing tens ...

Feb 9, 2026 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Early cognitive stimulation protects brain function in Alzheimer's disease, study suggests

A team from the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona (UBneuro) has discovered that early and sustained cognitive stimulation can help preserve brain connectivity and memory in Alzheimer's disease, even ...

Feb 10, 2026 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / New research finds data-driven staffing model delivers major cost savings for health care systems

New research published in Operations Research shows that health care systems can substantially reduce overtime, idle time, and overall staffing costs by adopting a multilocation, dynamic staff-planning model for anesthesiologists. ...

Feb 13, 2026 in Surgery
Phys.org / The Arctic's first inhabitants shaped thousands of years of ecological development

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence for repeated prehistoric occupation in the remote island cluster of Kitsissut, north of Greenland, indicating the first people in the High Arctic were skilled seafarers who had a profound ...

Feb 8, 2026 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Physicists clarify key mechanism behind energy release in molybdenum-93

A team of physicists from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with collaborators, has identified the dominant physical mechanism responsible for energy release in the nuclear ...

Feb 9, 2026 in Physics
Tech Xplore / Scaling-up global solar panel manufacturing sustainably

As solar energy rapidly expands to meet urgent climate targets and increasing demand for electricity, the key challenge is to ensure that this transition is not just scalable but sustainable. Pioneering research led by Northumbria ...

Feb 10, 2026 in Business
Phys.org / Non-alcoholic wine: A booming business searching for quality

Bertrand Degat, vineyard manager for French zero-alcohol wine producer French Bloom, winces visibly when recalling some of the criticism and snobbery he has encountered from his contemporaries.

Feb 12, 2026 in Biology
Medical Xpress / New study finds near-universal fentanyl exposure with xylazine in some—but not all—US cities

In the national conversation about overdose, fentanyl is often framed as a single, wide-reaching crisis, but new evidence from five major U.S. cities suggests a more fragmented, complex reality. In an article published in ...

Feb 10, 2026 in Addiction
Phys.org / Quantum research in two ways: From proving someone's location to simulating financial markets

Quantum physics may sound abstract, but Ph.D. candidates Kirsten Kanneworff and David Dechant show that quantum research can also be very concrete. Together, they are investigating how quantum technology can change the world. ...

Feb 13, 2026 in Physics
Medical Xpress / Key gene behind drug resistance in small cell lung cancer identified

A research team has discovered a crucial mechanism that underlies chemotherapy resistance and metastasis in small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Their study shows that the silencing of the RASA4 gene through epigenetic mechanisms ...

Feb 11, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer