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Phys.org / New study reveals people judge lines by what's ahead—not how long they wait

Conventional wisdom is that waiting in a queue online or in a physical line involves a certain cost for people and organizations. Rational analysis has largely based its queue management predictions on remaining wait time, ...

10 hours ago in Other Sciences
Phys.org / New DNA tagging workflow boosts gene delivery to the nucleus over tenfold

Gene therapy holds the promise of preventing and curing disease by manipulating gene expression within a patient's cells. However, to be effective, the new gene must make it into a cell's nucleus. The inability to consistently, ...

20 hours ago in Biology
Medical Xpress / 4D-printed vascular stent deploys at body temperature, eliminating external heating

Next-generation vascular stents can make cardiovascular therapies minimally invasive and vascular treatments safe and less burdensome. In a new advancement, researchers from Japan and China have successfully proposed a novel ...

10 hours ago in Surgery
Phys.org / Range-resident logistic model connects animal movement and population dynamics

Despite decades of independent progress in population ecology and movement ecology, researchers have lacked a theoretical bridge between these two disciplines. "Ecologists have been trying to establish this link since the ...

11 hours ago in Biology
Medical Xpress / Study identifies key predictors for chronic opioid use following surgery

For many Americans, a routine surgical procedure serves as their first introduction to opioid pain medication. While most stop using these drugs as they heal, a considerable number of "opioid-naïve" patients transition into ...

10 hours ago in Addiction
Medical Xpress / High ultra-processed food diets linked to 47% higher cardiovascular disease risk

Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are industrially modified products loaded with added fats, sugars, starches, salts and chemical additives like emulsifiers. From sodas to snacks and processed meats, these foods are stripped of ...

11 hours ago in Health
Tech Xplore / Anthropic, OpenAI rivalry spills into new Super Bowl ads as both fight to win over AI users

The two artificial intelligence startups behind rival chatbots ChatGPT and Claude are bracing for an existential showdown this year as both need to prove they can grow a business that will make more money than they're losing.

10 hours ago in Machine learning & AI
Phys.org / Why cheaper power alone isn't enough to end energy poverty in summer

Australia is an energy superpower. We have abundant natural resources, high average incomes and one of the highest per-capita rates of rooftop solar uptake in the world.

7 hours ago in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / 'Missing link' protein key to restoring disorganized blood vessels

Blood flows around the body through a complex network of vessels, which must constantly adapt to changing needs. The balance between growing new vessels and stabilizing existing vessels, so they aren't leaky, must be finely ...

11 hours ago in Medical research
Medical Xpress / Targeting HIV's hidden reservoirs: Lab-enhanced natural killer cells show promise

More than 30 million people with HIV must take antiretroviral therapy (ART) medications daily to keep the virus under control, according to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). The drugs are effective ...

11 hours ago in HIV & AIDS
Medical Xpress / Immune cells linked to Epstein-Barr virus may play a role in multiple sclerosis

Researchers at UC San Francisco have uncovered a new clue to how Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) could contribute to multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic autoimmune disease that affects nearly one million Americans. The work found ...

Medical Xpress / 'Football fever' peaks on match day, smartwatch study shows

The mean stress level of fans of the football club Arminia Bielefeld was 41% higher on the day of the German Football Association's (DFB-Pokal) 2025 Cup final compared to non-match days, according to a study published in ...

11 hours ago in Psychology & Psychiatry