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Phys.org / Dangerous flooding from Tropical Storm Arthur, first of the Atlantic season, threatens Gulf Coast

A disorganized cluster of storms that had been plaguing the Gulf Coast for days came together to form Tropical Storm Arthur on Wednesday—the first tropical cyclone of the season in the Atlantic basin.

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Medical Xpress / Rural areas lag behind in cancer treatment and prevention

Cancer in the United States experienced a dramatic turnaround in 1991. Prior to that year, cancer deaths had been increasing for decades, peaking at 215 deaths per 100,000 people, meaning about 1 in 4 deaths were attributed ...

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Tech Xplore / Humanizing robots makes factory workers more productive

When factory workers treat industrial robots as co-workers—even attributing certain human qualities to them—productivity and well-being improve, according to new research out of the Alberta School of Business.

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Phys.org / Spain logs third-warmest year on record in 2025

Spain registered its third-warmest year on record in 2025, with 25 single-day heat records set during the period, national weather agency AEMET said Wednesday.

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Phys.org / Study finds urbanization in the Hong Kong Greater Bay Area intensifies extreme heat and heavy rainfall risks

In recent years, Hong Kong has experienced repeated episodes of intense rainfall that have significantly affected social operations, including the "once-in-a-century" rainstorm in September 2023, exceptionally heavy rain ...

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Medical Xpress / AI tool outperforms existing methods for identifying severe childhood pneumonia

Pneumonia remains the leading infectious cause of death among children under 5 worldwide, claiming almost 1 million lives each year. Researchers at University College Dublin have developed an artificial intelligence tool ...

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Medical Xpress / How early life experiences shape schizophrenia risk

Carnegie Mellon University and University of California, San Francisco researchers have found that childhood trauma, poverty, social isolation and other adverse life experiences are associated with brain changes linked to ...

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Medical Xpress / New marker uses tomography to refine gastric cancer prognosis

Researchers at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in São Paulo, Brazil, have identified a new biomarker that may help determine the prognosis for patients with gastric cancer, the fifth most common type of cancer ...

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Phys.org / Levels of 'forever chemicals' in dolphins and whales are rising globally

Whales and dolphins inhabit some of the largest and seemingly most pristine environments on Earth, from tropical coastlines to Antarctic waters. Yet even they cannot escape PFAS—persistent "forever chemicals" that leak from ...

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Phys.org / 800 visits to a suburban park: Inside an epic 40‑year birdwatching quest

Birdwatching is one of the most common and popular ways people experience nature. But it's not often that even the most enthusiastic birdwatcher returns to the same place more than 800 times to witness the changes over four ...

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Medical Xpress / Researchers discover a new therapeutic target to prevent thrombi with a lower bleeding risk

Antiplatelet drugs are one of the main tools used to prevent thrombus formation in people who have had a heart attack or stroke or who have cardiovascular diseases with a high thrombotic risk. These treatments work by reducing ...

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Medical Xpress / Premature babies—a simple test gauges neurocognitive development

Canadian scientists have demonstrated for the first time that a noninvasive brain-monitoring technique could help medical teams predict the future development of premature babies.

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