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Phys.org / Could British companies be sued in the UK for human rights abuses committed overseas?

Powerful companies may be dragged into court for human rights harms they claim to know nothing about, according to a new study from the University of Surrey. The researchers argue that global businesses can no longer hide ...

44 minutes ago in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Sticker shock: 92,000 Pennsylvanians drop Obamacare health insurance in 2026

Roughly one-in-five Pennsylvania Obamacare plan enrollees dropped health coverage for 2026 due to "unprecedented cost increases," the state's online health insurance marketplace reported on Feb. 9.

44 minutes ago in Medical economics
Phys.org / Oldest known sewn hide and other artifacts from Oregon caves shed light on early clothing in harsh climates

In 1958, an amateur archaeologist named John Cowles excavated the Cougar Mountain Cave in Oregon and retained many of the artifacts found there. Upon his death in the 1980s, these items were transferred to the Favell Museum ...

8 hours ago in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Weather pushes back SpaceX's Crew-12 window, opening door for first ULA launch of year

NASA's plans to get the first human spaceflight of the year off the pad have to hold off until at least Friday because of weather constraints along the flight path needed in case of emergency. That delay, though, opens the ...

1 hour ago in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Why 'superbugs' thrive in hospitals

Police Scotland has launched an investigation into the deaths of six patients, including adults and children, believed to have contracted fatal infections at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.

1 hour ago in Health
Phys.org / Nature is a powerful ally against fires and floods: So how can it be saved?

More than a year after the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, the economic aftershocks of the disaster still permeate the lives of the people who survived it. Fewer than a dozen homes in some of the city's hardest-hit neighborhoods ...

1 hour ago in Earth
Phys.org / Fossil discovery suggests giant pythons once roamed Taiwan

Pythons are a common sight across much of Asia, especially in the tropical jungles and wetlands of countries like Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia. But one curious exception has been the main island of Taiwan, where there ...

11 hours ago in Biology
Dialog / Old galaxies in a young universe?

The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to 13.8 billion years and much younger when we explore the universe at high-redshift. The redshift ...

7 hours ago in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Can diet cure schizophrenia? RFK Jr. said yes, but experts say no

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this week that the ketogenic (keto) diet could cure schizophrenia. But experts say the claim goes far beyond what science supports.

Phys.org / Local governments provide proof that polarization is not inevitable

When it comes to national politics, Americans are fiercely divided across a range of issues, including gun control, election security and vaccines. It's not new for Republicans and Democrats to be at odds over issues, but ...

1 hour ago in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Current flows without heat loss in newly engineered fractional quantum material

A team of US researchers has unveiled a device that can conduct electricity along its fractionally charged edges without losing energy to heat. Described in Nature Physics, the work, led by Xiaodong Xu at the University of ...

12 hours ago in Physics
Phys.org / China's emissions policies are helping climate change but also creating a new problem

China's sweeping efforts to clean up its air have delivered one of the biggest public health success stories of recent decades. Since the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan was launched in 2013, coal-fired power ...

15 hours ago in Earth