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Medical Xpress / Vaping has slowed progress in cutting teen smoking in NZ—new study
Smoking rates among adults have declined in Aotearoa New Zealand over recent decades, from 18% smoking regularly in 2011/12 to 8% in 2023/24.
Phys.org / A genetic switch lets plants accept nitrogen-fixing bacteria
Researchers are one step closer to understanding how some plants survive without nitrogen. Their work could eventually reduce the need for artificial fertilizer in crops such as wheat, maize, or rice.
Phys.org / Universe's expansion 'is now slowing, not speeding up': Evidence mounts that dark energy weakens over time
The universe's expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously thought, a new study suggests.
Phys.org / Landscape clues suggest Indigenous Peoples have thrived in southwestern Amazon for more than 1,000 years
In September 2021, a multidisciplinary expedition explored one of the least-known regions of the Bolivian Amazon: the Great Tectonic Lakes of Exaltación in the department of Beni.
Phys.org / Sulfur cave spiders build an arachnid megacity and possibly the largest-ever spider web
Researchers may have discovered the world's biggest spider web, a massive subterranean structure spanning over 100 square meters in a sulfur cave on the Albania–Greece border. The multilayered web along a wall near the ...
Phys.org / Lonely? Here's how to connect with old friends—and make new ones
Loneliness is quietly emerging as one of the most significant health issues in Australia, and it can affect people of all ages, backgrounds and life stages.
Medical Xpress / Combination treatment may help cut lifelong ibrutinib for chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is the most prevalent adult leukemia in the Western Hemisphere, affecting approximately 200,000 people in the United States.
Phys.org / Do you speak cat? Take this quiz to find out
While often miscast as mysterious or hard to understand, cats are actually excellent communicators. In fact, in free-ranging cat colonies, physical fights are kept to a minimum through clever use of body posturing, scent ...
Phys.org / Many mini-Neptunes once thought to be lava worlds may actually have solid surfaces
As telescopes have become more powerful, it's turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of other planets out there in the galaxy. But we're still teasing out clues about what they are actually ...
Phys.org / Two independent quantum networks successfully fused into one
Many quantum researchers are working toward building technologies that allow for the existence of a global quantum internet, in which any two users on Earth would be able to conduct large-scale quantum computing and communicate ...
Phys.org / Main driver of Sargassum blooms in the Atlantic Ocean revealed
By the beginning of June this year, approximately 38 million tons of Sargassum drifted towards the coasts of the Caribbean islands, the Gulf of Mexico, and northern South America, marking a negative record. Especially during ...
Medical Xpress / Urban living linked to chronic stress epidemic in modern humans
Chronic stress is on the rise—the result of an evolutionary mismatch that our bodies and brains, adapted over hundreds of thousands of years to hunter-gatherer conditions, are experiencing in industrialized, urbanized environments, ...
