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Medical Xpress / Top tips for getting through winter months—and they're not what you think

Winter can feel long. With the buzz of the festive season behind us and spring not yet on the horizon, January and February can be particularly challenging. It's cold outside and daylight is in short supply, but what if, ...

Jan 2, 2026 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Brain immune cells may drive more damage in females than males with Alzheimer's

More than 7 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease, and two-thirds of them are women, according to the Alzheimer's Association. The O'Banion Lab at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester ...

Medical Xpress / How binge drinking triggers gut damage and inflammation so quickly

Research shows that a single drinking binge—roughly four drinks for women or five for men within about two hours—can disrupt the gastrointestinal tract in measurable ways. Even in healthy adults, such a rapid influx of ...

Jan 2, 2026 in Addiction
Medical Xpress / Why procrastination isn't laziness—it's rigid thinking that your brain can unlearn

Most of us have experienced it: a deadline approaches, the task is perfectly doable, yet instead of starting, we suddenly feel compelled to tidy a drawer or reorganize the apps on our phone. Procrastination feels irrational ...

Jan 2, 2026 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Tech Xplore / Tesla loses title as world's biggest electric vehicle maker as sales fall for second year in a row

Tesla lost its crown as the world's bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday as a customer revolt over Elon Musk's right-wing politics, expiring U.S. tax breaks for buyers and stiff overseas competition pushed sales down ...

Jan 2, 2026 in Business
Medical Xpress / Brain-inspired AI: Human brain separates goals and uncertainty to enable adaptive decision-making

Humans possess a remarkable balance between stability and flexibility, enabling them to quickly establish new plans and adjust goals even in the face of sudden changes. However, "model-free reinforcement learning," which ...

Dec 29, 2025 in Neuroscience
Phys.org / Qaidam Basin fossils suggest Pleistocene establishment of East Asian migratory flyway

A research team led by Associate Professor Wang Yaqiong from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), in collaboration with colleagues from multiple domestic and international ...

Jan 2, 2026 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Oral bacterium tied to disability severity in multiple sclerosis

Increasing evidence suggests that the severe gum disease, periodontitis, may contribute to central nervous system disorders through chronic inflammation. However, its role in multiple sclerosis, a chronic autoimmune disease ...

Dec 29, 2025 in Dentistry
Phys.org / Glacier loss to accelerate, with up to 4,000 disappearing each year by 2050s

Thousands of glaciers will vanish each year in the coming decades, leaving only a fraction standing by the end of the century unless global warming is curbed, a study showed on Monday.

Dec 28, 2025 in Earth
Medical Xpress / Pregnant women hospitalized for COVID-19, and their newborns, have higher complication risk

When hospitalized for COVID-19, pregnant women—and their eventual newborn children—have a higher risk of complications, according to a Michigan Medicine study.

Phys.org / New dataset maps global city boundaries in high resolution from 2000 to 2022

A research team led by Prof. Liu Liangyun from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIRCAS) has produced the first comprehensive, high-resolution map of global city and town boundaries, ...

Dec 30, 2025 in Earth
Phys.org / Simple wipe test reveals hidden PFAS contamination on firefighter protective gear

The flames die down. The sirens fade. Firefighters peel off their gear, thinking the danger has passed. But in the quiet aftermath, another enemy lingers, an invisible film of "forever chemicals" clinging to jackets, pants ...

Dec 30, 2025 in Chemistry