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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 ...

18 hours ago in Psychology & Psychiatry
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 ...

19 hours ago in Other Sciences
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 ...

20 hours ago in Other Sciences
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 ...

20 hours ago in Machine learning & AI
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 ...

20 hours ago in Energy & Green Tech
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 ...

18 hours ago in Health
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.

22 hours ago in Other Sciences
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, ...

Feb 21, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
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 ...

20 hours ago in Health
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 ...

21 hours ago in Medications
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 ...

13 hours ago in Chemistry