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Medical Xpress / States enact emergency orders on kratom while awaiting federal rules

States are moving faster and further than federal regulators to get kratom off store shelves, with some banning the herb outright while a pending federal rule targets only one of its chemicals.

Aug 14, 2026
Medical Xpress / Coffee consumption linked to leaner body composition and sex-specific hormone patterns

Coffee is one of the world's most widely consumed beverages, and previous research has linked its consumption to a lower risk of conditions such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. However, the biological mechanisms ...

Aug 13, 2026
Tech Xplore / Peering inside LLM-based multi-agent systems could expose stealthy attacks

Large language models (LLMs), the models that underpin platforms such as ChatGPT and Gemini, are now used daily by more than a billion people worldwide. Some computer scientists have also been combining several of these models ...

Aug 10, 2026
Phys.org / Oldest known giant rock scallop bead suggests California coastal trade began millennia earlier

Archaeologists have discovered two giant rock scallop beads that push back the clock on the first appearance of these high-status ornaments. The discovery shows that these prized marine beads were traded hundreds of miles ...

Aug 9, 2026
Medical Xpress / A timed liver signal may boost fat breakdown, pointing to potential metabolic treatments

What if one of the keys to a healthier metabolism is understanding how and when the liver communicates with the rest of the body?

Aug 12, 2026
Medical Xpress / Placental transport mechanism could guide safer biologic medicines during pregnancy

Biologic medicines have transformed the treatment of cancer, autoimmune diseases, migraine, inflammatory disorders and many other conditions. Yet their growing use among women of reproductive age constitutes a major clinical ...

Aug 14, 2026
Medical Xpress / Long before adulthood, a chemical mark may quietly shape how the brain handles stress

Stress or trauma during childhood may leave people more vulnerable to mental health struggles and stress later in life. Scientists think one reason could be that early-life stress leaves lasting molecular bookmarks on DNA, ...

Aug 11, 2026
Phys.org / AI cyclone forecasts could add 30 hours of warning time

Tropical cyclones are among the most destructive natural forces on the planet, but predicting where they will go and how strong they will become is beset by challenges. Current methods are often good at tracking storm paths ...

Aug 10, 2026
Phys.org / Hurricane Hunter data reveal early signs of strengthening tropical cyclones

Before tropical cyclones can significantly strengthen, they generally must first become vertically aligned, with their rotating centers stacked through the atmosphere. New research using nearly three decades of NOAA Hurricane ...

Aug 12, 2026
Phys.org / Many US public parks sit surprisingly close to hazardous waste sites and facilities that release toxic chemicals

While parks, playgrounds and hiking trails are generally thought of as "healthy" spaces, researchers from the University of Michigan have found that many of them overlap with old toxic waste sites or sit dangerously close ...

Aug 11, 2026
Medical Xpress / Electric fields offer new hope against aggressive brain cancer

More than a decade ago, Dr. Matthew Hebb was treating patients with Parkinson's disease using deep brain stimulation by implanting tiny electrodes into the brain and delivering electrical signals to control tremors. He wondered ...

Aug 13, 2026
Phys.org / Thinking fast and slow: Wild fish reveal how cognition evolved in two closely related species

Why do two individuals faced with the same information sometimes make completely different decisions? It is a question made famous by Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, whose book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" explored the contrast ...

Aug 13, 2026