All News
Medical Xpress / The shame-filled world of hair-pulling and skin-picking disorders
Over the course of their lives, up to 220,000 Norwegians will pick at their skin or pull out their hair to an extent that can be considered a mental health disorder. They pull out their hair until bald spots appear, or pick ...
Phys.org / Hate more common in early article comments, analysis finds
Comments written quickly after an article was published were more likely to contain hate and threats than those posted later. This is shown by a time analysis conducted by researchers at the University of Gothenburg of 38 ...
Phys.org / Women, children bearing brunt of homelessness in New Zealand
More than half of those experiencing homelessness in New Zealand are women, often mothers of young children and living in uninhabitable housing or sharing accommodation, a researcher at the University of Otago, Wellington—Ōtākou ...
Tech Xplore / AI may boost productivity—but it can hurt a creator's reputation, new research finds
Generative AI is now commonly used in creative fields like marketing and music, but new research from FIU's College of Business suggests that how creative work is made may matter just as much as the final product, especially ...
Medical Xpress / Study finds no evidence of persistent tick-borne infection in people who link chronic illness to ticks
When researchers studied Norwegians who thought tick bites caused their chronic health problems, they found no objective evidence linking the symptoms to ticks. The same study finds that health problems reported by participants ...
Tech Xplore / New target developed to improve production of important medical radioisotope
ANSTO has made progress on a more cost-effective way to produce the medical radioisotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), with less enrichment of uranium-235 (U-235) and producing less waste. ANSTO supplies the Australian medical community ...
Medical Xpress / Doomscrolling affecting many Americans' sleep, poll finds
Doomscrolling is taking a toll on many Americans' rest, a new survey says. More than a third of U.S. adults (38%) say using their phone or tablet to read the news before bed is making their sleep slightly or significantly ...
Phys.org / US childhood literacy rates are lagging. Pediatricians could be part of the solution
For some young children in Columbus, Ohio, reading assessments don't start in the kindergarten classroom—they happen first in the doctor's office.
Phys.org / Cosmologists collaborate to sharpen measurements of the Hubble constant
Drawing together leading experts from across the field, an international collaboration of cosmologists has created a unified approach for measuring the value of the Hubble constant. Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, ...
Medical Xpress / Fat shaming doesn't improve human health, it harms it, researchers find
Adolescence is a period defined by rapid physical, emotional, and social change, and for many young people, it is also shaped by body image issues and weight stigma. Those experiences, researchers say, can drive chronic stress ...
Medical Xpress / Opioids aren't effective for many acute pain conditions, researchers warn
A large review of opioid pain relievers prescribed for acute pain has found these medicines provide only small, short-term relief for some acute conditions and are ineffective for some others. The study set out to review ...
Phys.org / Reinforced enzyme expression drives high production of durable lactate-based polyester
Bio-based polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are considered one of the most promising sustainable alternatives to fossil-derived plastics. Poly[(D-lactate)-co-(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate] (LAHB) is an environmentally biodegradable microbial ...
