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Medical Xpress / If you're pregnant and uninsured, Medicaid might be your answer
When she noticed an unusual craving for hot dogs, Matte'a Brooks suspected her body was telling her something, so she decided to take a pregnancy test. She took two just to be sure. Both were positive.
Phys.org / Study links daily mental sharpness to 30 to 40 extra minutes of work
A new U of T Scarborough study finds that being mentally sharp can translate into a productivity boost equivalent to about 40 extra minutes of work each day.
Phys.org / Morocco says evacuated 140,000 people due to severe weather
Authorities have evacuated more than 140,000 people from their homes since heavy rainfall flooded several provinces in northern Morocco last week, the interior ministry said Thursday.
Phys.org / Deadly storm sparks floods in Spain, raises calls to postpone Portugal vote
A deadly storm that triggered floods and thousands of evacuations in the Iberian Peninsula sparked calls on Thursday for Portugal's presidential run-off to be postponed, but electoral officials insisted it would go ahead.
Tech Xplore / Origami-inspired waveguides fold for launch, expand in space for satellites
High-powered satellites use electromagnetic waveguides to deliver energy from one component to another. Typically, they are made of heavy, inflexible metal tubes with an even heavier flange on either end, neither of which ...
Phys.org / Huge areas of Australia are vulnerable to tree-killing beetle, study warns
A new Curtin University study warns that large parts of Australia, including major cities and farming regions, could be highly vulnerable to a fast-spreading invasive beetle, already causing severe damage across the Perth ...
Phys.org / Bacteria can survive washing and disinfection in food production plants
Bacteria in food can make you seriously ill, which is why it is so important for the facilities that produce your food to ensure proper hygiene in their production lines. A new doctoral thesis from NTNU has investigated how ...
Phys.org / New report confirms 2025 among Hawai'i's driest, warmest on record
In 2025, Hawaiʻi experienced its second-driest year in more than a century, alongside persistently above-average temperatures throughout the year—a stark reality detailed in the inaugural Hawai'i Annual Climate Report ...
Medical Xpress / FDA approves combination Yuvezzi eye drop for presbyopia in adults
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Yuvezzi (carbachol and brimonidine tartrate) ophthalmic solution 2.75%/0.1%, previously known as Brimochol PF, as the first and only dual-agent eye drop for the treatment ...
Medical Xpress / Choline could reduce pregnancy inflammation, study suggests
Pregnancy is, biologically speaking, a state of controlled upheaval. The immune system recalibrates. Blood volume surges. And sometimes, inflammation rises to unsafe levels, with potential adverse health effects for both ...
Phys.org / AI accelerates access to insect collections
Researchers at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, together with data scientists, have developed a new method to largely automate the extraction of label information from digitized insect specimens. The pipeline, named ELIE, ...
Medical Xpress / Trojan horse delivery system uses gold nanoparticles to drive mRNA into tumors
University of Oklahoma researchers have created a new drug delivery system that helps cancer cells take in much more of a treatment, improving its ability to kill tumors. The findings are published in Science Advances.
