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Medical Xpress / New study questions root cause of common dental defect in children
A major study has ruled out inflammation as the cause of a developmental condition affecting children's teeth while also revealing how common the condition is.
Medical Xpress / Three clinical grade skincare creams you really shouldn't buy online
Your social media feed is full of people talking about the "holy grail" of skincare.
Medical Xpress / New strategy for controlling hypertension: Should boosting potassium be part of efforts to control high blood pressure?
High blood pressure can be better controlled with a strategy that combines boosting potassium intake with reducing sodium, according to a new report. High blood pressure, or hypertension, affects more than 1.28 billion adults ...
Medical Xpress / Six things to know about infrared workouts—by a fitness expert
From yoga studios to boutique gyms, workouts performed beneath infrared heating panels have become a visible fitness trend. Studios often claim that infrared heat improves circulation, flexibility and recovery, reduces inflammation ...
Phys.org / Italy's Po River valley on drought alert
Italian authorities raised the drought alert level to "high" Thursday in the Po Valley, home to the country's longest river, because of worsening conditions and unfavorable weather forecasts.
Tech Xplore / How an OpenAI safety test became a real‑world cyberattack on the Hugging Face platform
OpenAI's AI models recently escaped their constraints during an internal cybersecurity evaluation and broke into the production systems of Hugging Face—a popular machine learning platform and community used across the AI ...
Phys.org / Tread softly: A new 'light touch' way to detect kauri dieback
Kauri dieback is one of the most serious threats facing Aotearoa New Zealand's kauri forests. The disease is caused by a soil-dwelling microbe, Phytophthora agathidicida, which infects kauri roots and eventually kills the ...
Tech Xplore / 'Vibe coding' is fun and easy, but there's a major catch
Imagine you've always wanted your own app. Perhaps one that tracks your household budget, organizes the family shopping list or reminds you when to water your plants.
Medical Xpress / Yoga may help relieve irritable bowel syndrome symptoms
Yoga is best known for improving flexibility, building strength and reducing stress. Research suggests it may also help ease symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a common digestive disorder that affects millions of ...
Tech Xplore / This robot can snuff out wildfires with a cryogenic spray
About 20 years ago, Yiannis Levendis, a professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at Northeastern University, was working on an experiment to find an alternative to coal—grinding up old car and truck tires and burning ...
Medical Xpress / Q&A: Are environmental chemicals and endometrial cancer linked?
Researchers at Penn State are investigating whether exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals in the environment may play a role in the development of endometrial cancer, particularly among women in rural communities. The ...
Phys.org / Cool it: AI-driven solutions to lower urban heat need community buy-in to work
A new framework to cool urban areas which integrates AI-driven technical solutions with cooling schemes that are acceptable and doable for the host community, has been proposed by QUT Urban AI Hub researchers.
