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Phys.org / Studies offer insight into how owners experience pet loss

New research from the Dog Aging Project and Texas A&M University highlights that for many families, losing a dog means losing a family member—and that the grief is profound regardless of how a pet dies. The studies underscore ...

20 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Research unveils rising homelessness-death connection

A new report, to be presented to policymakers today, uncovers a huge rise in official reports concerning deaths among homeless or precariously housed people in recent years. The investigations, known as Prevention of Future ...

16 hours ago
Phys.org / Plastic washing at recycling plants can spike phthalates in wastewater, study suggests

Potentially harmful chemicals can contaminate untreated water used in recycling plants to clean plastics before they're processed into new products, according to a new study by an Iowa State University research group. Researchers ...

19 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Who will govern the AI of the future? A study analyzes who will set the rules

Amid the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and the debate on how it should be regulated, research by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) examines a key question: who sets the rules and through what infrastructure. ...

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Medical Xpress / Ejaculating more often may boost sperm motility and reduce DNA damage

When it comes to reproduction, female biology is often described in terms of a ticking clock. Women are born with most of their lifetime supply of eggs, meaning that a woman's age is usually the same as the age of her eggs. ...

20 hours ago
Phys.org / Rare mountain gorilla twins born in DR Congo: park authorities

In a rare occurrence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, twin mountain gorillas were recently born in the Virunga National Park, renowned for its biodiversity but threatened by conflict.

21 hours ago
Phys.org / Brazil's fire corals may be facing silent extinction, experts say

According to the authors of a study published in the journal Coral Reefs, fire corals may be undergoing a "silent extinction." Coral bleaching occurs when seawater temperatures rise, causing the zooxanthellae (microalgae ...

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Phys.org / How New Jersey's limits on 'forever chemicals' in tap water brought levels down

Levels of toxic "forever chemicals" in New Jersey's public water systems dropped by as much as 55% after the state moved to limit the contaminants in drinking water, according to a Rutgers Health researcher who has analyzed ...

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Phys.org / NASA X-ray mission gets fresh look at 2,000-year-old supernova

NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission has taken a new observation of a supernova, RCW 86, helping fill in a fuller picture of what other telescopes have observed.

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Medical Xpress / Walking pace may outperform blood pressure and cholesterol in predicting mortality risk, study suggests

A new analysis of more than 400,000 UK adults has found that easy-to-collect measures of physical health, particularly how fast someone walks, can significantly improve predictions of mortality risk. This finding was especially ...

20 hours ago
Phys.org / Developing optical vortex phase masks for the detection of habitable worlds

A team of NASA researchers is developing new types of optical masks that could help enable the many orders of magnitude of starlight suppression needed for future space observatories to pick out very faint habitable exoplanets ...

22 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Birth control pills and IUDs not associated with brain pressure disorder

Hormonal contraception, including birth control pills and intrauterine devices (IUDs), is not associated with an increased prevalence of a brain pressure disorder called idiopathic intracranial hypertension, according to ...

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