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Medical Xpress / Hormone therapy use may lead to fewer mood disturbances during the menopause transition

Mood disturbances—depressed mood, irritability, anxiety and mental exhaustion—are common during the menopause transition, affecting up to 68% of women. Although hormone therapy (HT) is FDA-approved for hot flashes and genitourinary ...

17 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Analysis identifies sharply different health risks among medicinal, recreational and dual cannabis users

With recreational cannabis now legal in 24 states, including Delaware, the number of users is rising. But not all cannabis users look alike or face the same health concerns. Most published research compares cannabis users ...

18 hours ago
Medical Xpress / People with ADHD are more likely to suffer from gut problems, major review finds

University of Warwick researchers have analyzed data from more than 1.9 million people across 23 studies and found that ADHD is linked to an almost 50% increase in overall gastrointestinal symptoms compared with people without ...

19 hours ago
Tech Xplore / AI-powered VR helps planners design better cities

Artificial intelligence (AI) combined with virtual reality (VR) could guide us through tomorrow's cities before they are even built, according to research in the International Journal of Environment and Pollution. Such models ...

17 hours ago
Phys.org / How to help your garden recover from a heat wave

UK gardens took a battering this summer as a heat dome settled over western Europe, and much of the green and pleasant land turned a dusty beige.

20 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Potentially harmful drug combinations prescribed to older adults identified

A new Ontario-wide study reveals that common medications, from statins to iron supplements, are quietly setting off prescribing cascades that leave older adults unknowingly taking drugs to treat side effects of other drugs.

19 hours ago
Phys.org / 25 years after 9/11, research traces changing landscape of religious bias

A quarter-century after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, religious bias in America has not disappeared, but the forces shaping it have changed.

19 hours ago
Medical Xpress / AI-assisted imaging tool for breast cancer could tailor screening for women according to individual risk

An artificial intelligence model that analyzes women's past and recent annual 3D mammograms is more effective at predicting the five-year risk of developing breast cancer than a tool that uses only the most recent 3D mammogram, ...

20 hours ago
Tech Xplore / The next frontier is not artificial intelligence, it's artificial societies

There is a temptation to divide the future of AI into two possibilities: utopia or catastrophe. Neither extreme is particularly helpful.

20 hours ago
Phys.org / Ancient Swedish Goths had surprisingly accurate calendars

On a mostly flat plain an hour north of Stockholm lies a collection of large burial mounds dating from an ancient culture at least 2,500 years old. These people were not Vikings; they were northern Germanic Goths, pagan polytheists ...

21 hours ago
Phys.org / Supercomputer simulations reveal how the molecular motor kinesin steers itself along tracks

Kinesin is a molecular motor responsible for hauling essential cargoes within cells by walking step by step along filamentous tracks known as microtubules. To move efficiently and avoid falling off, the motor's two feet must ...

21 hours ago
Phys.org / New genomic tool for clams boosts sustainable aquaculture

An international team of researchers, including CIIMAR, has developed a new tool that could help produce clams that are more resistant to disease and climate change while also strengthening the conservation of these species' ...

21 hours ago