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Phys.org / Tuberculosis drug discovery gets smarter with AI

When researchers screen potential tuberculosis drugs, they often end up with too many options. Some look promising but later prove to be costly dead ends. "We might get thousands of compounds from a screen and then have to ...

14 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Turning pulp mills into next-generation biorefineries

Georgia's $41 billion forest products industry needs a transformation, and a Georgia Tech research team is reimagining how pulp mills use energy and what they can make from their byproduct streams. For nearly a decade, Sankar ...

23 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Car‑free streets reduce noise and air pollution: Should more cities have them?

Every summer, cities around the world host car-free days and temporarily pedestrianize streets. Following their success elsewhere, temporary pedestrianized streets are becoming more common in North America, including for ...

12 hours ago
Phys.org / Study finds high school track experience gives baseball players an edge MLB teams overlook

A new study by a University of Florida sport management professor and colleagues challenges long-held assumptions about how young athletes should train and suggests that Major League Baseball teams might be missing players ...

13 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Magnesium oxide emerges as a promising protective coating for sulfide solid electrolytes

The success of a promising class of next-generation batteries may hinge on something almost impossibly thin: a coating just a nanometer thick—roughly 100,000 times thinner than a human hair. In new research, scientists at ...

22 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Air pollution mixtures may pose hidden risks during pregnancy

Pregnancy puts higher oxygen demand on the body, so expectant mothers breathe significantly more air over the course of a day. When air quality is bad, they're also breathing in more harmful pollutants.

13 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Missing metabolite may drive rare childhood brain disorder, new biosensor reveals

Scientists at Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have discovered why babies born with a rare inborn error of metabolism called GPT2 deficiency suffer from severe neurological impairment. ...

22 hours ago
Phys.org / Herbularyo card game blends Filipino folklore and organic chemistry

Medicinal plants have long been a cornerstone of Philippine traditional medicine, dating back generations. Tawa-tawa, a low-growing herb that thrives in open grasslands, is a valued supplementary treatment for dengue; the ...

15 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Hypoglossal nerve stimulation for obstructive sleep apnea shows downstream health benefits

Researchers estimate that more than 80 million U.S. adults are living with obstructive sleep apnea, a condition in which the soft tissue at the back of the throat collapses and blocks the airway during sleep. This blockage ...

15 hours ago
Phys.org / The Large Hadron Collider is being upgraded so that it can unlock the secrets of the Higgs boson

Deep beneath the French-Swiss border, the world's largest scientific instrument has fallen silent. After years of smashing protons together at nearly the speed of light, CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has stopped operations ...

17 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Opposition to data centers grows in cramped urban Japan

The more Yoriko Kitagawa learns about a massive data center to be built near her home in Hino, on the outskirts of Tokyo, the more she worries.

14 hours ago
Medical Xpress / A sales tax on doctor visits and medicine? In Missouri, some worry

Missouri health care advocate Leslie Ortbals and her husband want to start a family, but she worries they can't afford it. The 27-year-old said she takes 10 medications daily to manage multiple chronic illnesses.

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