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Medical Xpress / Weight-loss drug 'support supplements': Do they address nutrient deficiencies, or are they just another fad?

Weight-loss injections have rapidly moved from specialist clinics to social media feeds and high-street pharmacies. Known as GLP-1 medications, they were originally developed to support those with type 2 diabetes but are ...

14 hours ago in Health
Medical Xpress / Recommendations developed for primary care asthma management in veterans, military members

In a synopsis of a clinical practice guideline issued by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and U.S. Department of Defense and published online Feb. 17 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, updated recommendations are ...

14 hours ago in Inflammatory disorders
Phys.org / Image: Winter grips Hokkaido, Japan

Northern Japan, especially the island of Hokkaido, is home to some of the snowiest cities in the world. Sapporo, the island's largest city and host of an annual snow festival, typically sees more than 140 days of snowfall, ...

10 hours ago in Earth
Medical Xpress / The outrage over the Enhanced Games ignores the risks many already accept in sport

The Enhanced Games, slated to commence in May 2026, has sparked outrage across the sporting world. This new competition is the first in history to openly permit performance-enhancing drugs, and sporting bodies aren't happy ...

Tech Xplore / Compressorless hydrogen turbine runs 303 seconds, beating NASA's 250-second record

Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have set a record runtime with a new compressorless gas turbine. The burner, featuring a revolutionary pressure-gain combustion technology, operated for 303 seconds. ...

18 hours ago in Energy & Green Tech
Phys.org / Why failing generative AI keeps rolling in government: Nine arguments sustain momentum

New ethnographic research reveals nine justifications that make AI innovations almost "irresistible" across organizational and professional boundaries. The study conducted at the University of Eastern Finland and Aalto University ...

16 hours ago in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / How vaccines give our immune systems a home advantage

We are now approaching six years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, yet talk of vaccines and our immune systems persists in our cultural conversations—from political arenas to the dinner ...

14 hours ago in Immunology
Phys.org / Study finds reduction of aerosols and cloud cover drives increase in solar radiation in Europe

Solar radiation warms and illuminates our planet. It is the primary driver behind the movement of clouds and wind, helps keep us warm, and governs activity through daily and seasonal cycles. However, over the past 30 years, ...

17 hours ago in Earth
Phys.org / Greenland entrepreneur gambles on leafy greens

Growing lettuce in the Arctic as a business venture? One Greenland entrepreneur believes in the idea, selling his house to get start-up capital in a gamble he's hoping will pay off.

16 hours ago in Biology
Tech Xplore / THz band testbed successfully transmits under 1,000 km/h high-mobility emulation

The fifth-generation mobile communication system, also known as 5G, is expected to evolve as a critical infrastructure supporting individual users, industrial applications, and social systems. This requires access to broader ...

16 hours ago in Telecom
Tech Xplore / Amazon's Ring wanted to track your pets. It revealed the future of surveillance

As a career counterintelligence officer for the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Defense Intelligence Agency, I worked inside a fully integrated intelligence system. Signals intelligence from the National Security ...

15 hours ago in Security
Tech Xplore / Demonstration of mass connectivity for the 6G era

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has developed a hybrid signal processing method that integrates an annealing-based quantum computer with classical computing for next-generation mobile ...

16 hours ago in Telecom