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Medical Xpress / Online psychoeducation underperforms existing digital cognitive behavioral therapy in trial

Big Health Inc, along with paid academic investigators, reports higher remission rates and lower anxiety symptom scores with their smartphone-delivered digital cognitive behavioral therapy, DaylightRx, compared with an online ...

9 hours ago in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Women are better at recognizing illness in faces compared to men, study finds

Most people have either been told that they don't look well when they were sick, or thought that someone else looked ill at some point in their lives. People often use nonverbal facial cues, such as drooping eyelids and pale ...

11 hours ago in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / Machine learning and microscopy solve 170-year-old mystery of premelting ice

Through a novel combination of machine learning and atomic force microscopy, researchers in China have unveiled the molecular surface structure of "premelted" ice, resolving a long-standing mystery surrounding the liquid-like ...

11 hours ago in Physics
Phys.org / Ant societies rose by trading individual protection for collective power—the evolution of 'squishability'

Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses? The famous question, though implausible, reflects a ubiquitous tradeoff between quantity and quality. Now, a study shows that this dilemma operates in biology ...

7 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / New 'cloaking device' concept shields electronics from disruptive magnetic fields

University of Leicester engineers have unveiled a concept for a device designed to magnetically "cloak" sensitive components, making them invisible to detection.

7 hours ago in Physics
Phys.org / A molecular gatekeeper that controls protein synthesis

Researchers at ETH Zurich recently explained the role of a molecular complex that orchestrates the production of proteins in our cells. They now show that this complex also controls the processing of proteins that compact ...

7 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / How ancient viral DNA shapes early embryonic development

A new study from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) in London, UK reveals how ancient viral DNA once written off as "junk" plays a crucial role in the earliest moments of life. The research, published in Science ...

7 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / Wildfires reshape forest soils for decades, with recovery varying by climate

Wildfires may disappear from the landscape within weeks, but their hidden effects on the soil can persist for decades. An international research team led by the University of Göttingen, together with partners in Tübingen, ...

7 hours ago in Earth
Phys.org / How mountain building and climate change have shaped alpine biodiversity over 30 million years

In a study published in Science Advances on December 19, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators from international institutions, explored ...

7 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / Eifel volcanoes mapped in detail: Surprising new insights from Germany's largest seismological experiment

Several hundred volcanoes lie dormant beneath the Eifel in western Germany. They are typical examples of what is known as distributed volcanic fields. To better understand their formation and activity, researchers from the ...

8 hours ago in Earth
Phys.org / Targeting bacterial 'decision-making' could help outsmart antibiotic resistance

Antibiotic resistance is a growing global health crisis that makes common infections harder to treat and puts many medical procedures at risk. Now, Carnegie Mellon University researchers have uncovered a vulnerability in ...

7 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / Pressing pause: A small genetic stop may have helped complex life evolve

Humans have it. So does Drosophila. But not yeast. That "it" is a small pause at the start of gene activity—a brief molecular halt that may have helped life evolve from simple cells to complex animals.

8 hours ago in Biology