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Tech Xplore / Are you addicted to your AI chatbot? It might be by design

AI chatbots can grant almost any request—a celebrity in love with you, a research assistant, a book character sprung to life—instantly and with little effort. New research presented at the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors ...

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Medical Xpress / Myeloma care still lacking practical tools to personalize treatment, study finds

Although patients with the same cancer diagnosis may respond very differently to treatment, clinicians still have limited tools at their disposal to predict who is most likely to benefit or suffer from a particular myeloma ...

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Medical Xpress / Battery-free airway device could spot stent complications early through remote monitoring

Vanderbilt researchers led by Xiaoguang Dong, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, have developed a novel device that can be used remotely to continuously monitor the airway stents of patients with diseases like ...

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Phys.org / Potential signs of life on distant planets sound exciting, but confirmation can take years

Astronomers can use telescopes to find specific molecules in the atmospheres of neighboring planets, in nebulae—clouds of interstellar dust and gas—hundreds or thousands of light-years away, or in galaxies beyond the far ...

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Tech Xplore / AI's power bill just got easier to predict before the next data center surge

Due to the explosive growth of artificial intelligence, it is estimated that data centers will consume up to 12% of total U.S. electricity by 2028, according to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Improving data center ...

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Phys.org / Brazil's farm expansion has left a vast soil carbon debt—but one fix could help meet climate goals

The conversion of Brazil's native biomes into agricultural areas has resulted in an estimated loss of 1.4 billion tons of soil carbon. This amount is equal to the emission of 5.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂) equivalent, ...

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Medical Xpress / Not all Alzheimer's leads to dementia: The mystery of cognitive resilience

Some brains resist Alzheimer's, even when the disease is already present. Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have found that this likely depends on how specific brain cells, known as immature neurons, ...

8 hours ago
Phys.org / Botany's answer to Darwin's finches shows evolution in real time

A new study reveals how a remarkable group of plants on the Galápagos Islands developed their diverse leaf shapes—offering unique insight into evolution at the genetic level. A large international team of researchers has ...

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Medical Xpress / AI tool may spot ADHD years before children are diagnosed

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects millions of children, yet many go years without a diagnosis, missing the chance for early support that can change long-term outcomes even when early signs are present. ...

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Science X / Precise enough to pick fruit, powerful enough to lift a person—how the elephant trunk may revolutionize robotics

Researchers have developed a soft robot that moves like an elephant's trunk—precise enough to pick fresh fruit, yet powerful enough to help lift a patient. Lucia Beccai, an expert in soft robotics at the Italian Institute ...

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Phys.org / Self-organizing 'pencil beam' laser could help scientists design brain-targeted therapies

MIT researchers discovered a paradoxical phenomenon in optical physics that could enable a new bioimaging method that's faster and higher-resolution than existing technology. They discovered that, under the right conditions, ...

11 hours ago
Phys.org / CRISPR untangles five-gene protein that helps plants grow in early stages

For most of their lives, plants get their energy from photosynthesis. But during the seed to seedling stage, when they can't absorb light just yet, they rely on other sources, like fatty acids. To process the fatty acids, ...

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