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Phys.org / As California embraces universal transitional kindergarten, the state's other child-care workers are struggling

Last spring, UC Berkeley researcher Anna Powell sat in on a Zoom call as a number of Bay Area child care center leaders discussed, with sympathy and frustration, the difficult position their businesses were in.

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Medical Xpress / Aging with HIV: Global report highlights the need to prepare health systems

The Lancet HIV Commission on Aging's 2026 report highlights how profoundly the global HIV epidemic is changing.

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Phys.org / A forecast is not a decision: Design engineering for drought preparedness

More than 80 countries face chronic drought, yet only a third have systems in place to act before a drought arrives rather than after. The gap is costly. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, ...

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Medical Xpress / Immunotherapy shows promise for clearing residual melanoma cells

Cornell researchers successfully ramped up the body's own immune response to fight melanoma at the tail end of targeted cancer therapy, when tumors commonly become resistant to these therapies and leave behind residual cancer ...

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Medical Xpress / Exploring the relationship between an age-related brain change and depression

During typical aging and Alzheimer's disease progression, higher levels of a protein called tau are associated with more depressive symptoms. In JNeurosci, Teodora Markova from Brandeis University and colleagues explore the ...

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Tech Xplore / As the fuel crisis deepens, Pacific nations can save billions by switching to renewables: New report

A new report, Counting the cost of fossil fuels in the Pacific, released today by the UNSW Institute for Climate Risk & Response (ICRR), found Pacific nations spend between 10% and 25% of GDP on fossil fuel imports—more than ...

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Medical Xpress / Rethinking how we define neurodegenerative diseases

On the surface, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE) might seem like unrelated diseases. ALS destroys motor neurons, causing muscle ...

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Tech Xplore / Empty North Sea oil fields could store enough green hydrogen to power the country for seven years

Every time Britain has a still, gray week in winter, something invisible happens behind our electrical outlets: Gas power plants fire up to keep the lights on. That gas is often imported, with prices set by volatile global ...

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Medical Xpress / The brain has its own thermostat. A study shows epilepsy may interfere with it

Doctors have long known that changes in body temperature can affect seizure activity. Fever can trigger seizures in some young children, while in rare forms of epilepsy, bathing in hot water can bring on a seizure. Raised ...

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Phys.org / Making the case for independent science

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's 16-year rule ended in the spring, when voters replaced him with Péter Magyar, who has pledged to undo Orbán-led initiatives that, in the eyes of critics, isolated and politicized science.

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Phys.org / Long-term study reveals hidden threat of schistosomiasis in endangered chimpanzees

A 12-year study of rescued chimpanzees at the Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary (NICS) in Uganda has revealed persistent intestinal schistosomiasis infections, highlighting the need for long-term disease surveillance to ...

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Medical Xpress / Blood test shows promise for detecting breast cancer recurrence

A research team at Kumamoto University has developed a blood-based approach that could help detect breast cancer recurrence by looking beyond conventional genetic mutations and examining how DNA is packaged inside cells. ...

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