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Medical Xpress / Rapid reaction: Could a measles outbreak in London affect me?
Figures regularly published by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) show that cases of measles in England have been rising since the start of 2026. Since 1 January 2026, there have been a total of 158 laboratory-confirmed ...
Medical Xpress / Cryotherapy could be a game changer for patients with early-stage kidney cancer
Today, small kidney tumors are most often treated with a minor operation in which all or part of the kidney is removed. However, in many cases, these small tumors can be treated with targeted cryotherapy, which destroys the ...
Medical Xpress / Study finds depression, suicidal ideation among college students increased over past 15 years
Results of an analysis of health survey data from more than 560,000 U.S. college students concludes that depression symptoms have steadily increased over the past 15 years, particularly among women, minorities and students ...
Medical Xpress / Thymus function may hold the key to understanding immune aging
As populations age worldwide, the decline of the immune system, a process known as immunosenescence, has become a critical biomedical challenge. This decline leads to increased susceptibility to infections, reduced vaccine ...
Medical Xpress / Trader Joe's pulls frozen meals tied to 37 million-pound nationwide recall
Trader Joe's is recalling several frozen food items after reports that they may contain small pieces of glass.
Phys.org / Scientists create a hexagonal diamond that could be even harder than the real thing
To misquote a famous song, "Diamonds are industry's best friend." Cubic diamond is the hardest mineral on Earth and is used in everything from precision cutting tools to high-performance semiconductors as well as expensive ...
Phys.org / Chimps' love for crystals could help us understand our own ancestors' fascination with these stones
Crystals have repeatedly been found at archaeological sites alongside Homo remains. Evidence shows that hominins have been collecting these stones for as long as 780,000 years. Yet, we know that our ancestors did not use ...
Tech Xplore / Humanoid robots master parkour and acquire human-like agility
Humanoid robots, robotic systems with a human-like body structure, have the potential of tackling various real-world tasks that are currently being completed by humans. In recent years, many robotics researchers and computer ...
Phys.org / How old is the universe? The oldest stars give us a clue
Researchers from the University of Bologna and the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) along with other institutes have proposed a new way to address the Hubble tension by comparing estimates of the universe's ...
Phys.org / Binary star population of open cluster NGC 2158 explored with Hubble
Astronomers have analyzed the images collected by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to investigate a galactic open cluster known as NGC 2158. Results of the study, published Feb. 25 on the arXiv pre-print server, provide essential ...
Phys.org / A translation vanished: Why Ljuba Metzl may be missing from theater history
The Neo-Latin theater play "Cenodoxus" (1602) by Jakob Bidermann is now only known to some researchers in Latin and German studies. But from 1930 to 1960, the story about the battle between heavenly and hellish powers for ...
Phys.org / Neutrons reveal magnetic signatures of chiral phonons
Physicists in China have uncovered new evidence that chiral phonons and magnons can interact strongly inside magnetic crystals. Using neutron spectroscopy, a team led by Song Bao at Nanjing University mapped magnetic signatures ...
