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Medical Xpress / Managing long COVID energy levels with a new activity-tracking app

The first study to test a digital tool designed to help people with long COVID manage their energy levels has been developed by a team of researchers. The paper published in Nature Communications is titled "A Digital Platform ...

Phys.org / Intercity quantum sensor network tightens axion dark matter constraints

Recently, scientists from institutions including the University of Science and Technology of China made a fundamental breakthrough in nuclear-spin quantum precision measurement. They developed the first intercity nuclear-spin-based ...

14 hours ago in Physics
Phys.org / In Sweden, young adults feel most dissatisfied while the oldest thrive

Young adults in Sweden feel significantly worse than older people in almost all areas of life. While older Swedes rank among the happiest in the world, young adults struggle with loneliness and psychological distress. These ...

7 hours ago in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Flu cases on the rise in California; doctors urge vaccinations

With months left of flu season, influenza cases are on the rise in California and transmission is high in the San Francisco Bay Area, data shows.

Medical Xpress / A more reliable platform to test antibody medicines

An international research consortium, led by scientists at VIB and UGent, has developed a new platform that could change how antibody medicines are tested and brought to patients. The work, published in Science Immunology, ...

11 hours ago in Medical research
Medical Xpress / Mutation map shows how key cancer gene drives tumor growth

Scientists have created a complete map showing how hundreds of possible mutations in a key cancer gene influence tumor growth. The study focused on CTNNB1, a gene that produces the protein β-catenin, which helps regulate ...

23 hours ago in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / Late-January US snowstorm wasn't historically exceptional: NOAA

Despite its deadly impacts, the recent winter storm that battered much of the United States was not historically exceptional, official data showed Monday.

13 hours ago in Earth
Phys.org / A crisis emerges across the US as 'forever chemicals' quietly contaminate drinking water wells

Kristen Hanneman made a small decision in 2022 that would upend life for her entire town.

18 hours ago in Earth
Phys.org / Hubble sees galaxy with dark rings in new light

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features an uncommon galaxy with a striking appearance. NGC 7722 is a lenticular galaxy located about 187 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus.

15 hours ago in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Psychological therapies for children whose first language isn't English can become lost in translation, study warns

Current school-based mental health support for children from multilingual backgrounds can be "lost in translation" because it is reliant on good proficiency in English, a new study warns. The work says greater linguistic ...

13 hours ago in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Common procedure does not prevent recurrent pancreatitis, trial finds

A multicenter clinical trial published in JAMA has found that a long-used endoscopic procedure does not prevent recurrent pancreatitis in adults with an anatomic anomaly, challenging decades of conventional wisdom. The study, ...

13 hours ago in Surgery
Phys.org / Epiaceratherium itjilik: The rhino that lived in the Arctic

Paleontologists at the Canadian Museum of Nature have recently been studying the skeletal remains of a rhinoceros. This might not sound remarkable at first, but what makes these remains fascinating is that they were found ...

15 hours ago in Biology