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Medical Xpress / What happens to strength, balance, stamina and reflexes as you age, and what you can do about it
Here is a finding that surprises most people, including plenty of regular gym-goers. When researchers tracked nearly 1,900 older adults (aged 70–79) over three years, those who held on to their muscle mass, and even those ...
Medical Xpress / The best fabric for extreme heat? It's more complicated than you think
When it's really hot out, getting dressed seems pretty simple: Wear something light, loose and made for summer. But textile researchers say it's actually a little more complicated than that.
Phys.org / Young men are 'voicemaxxing' to sound more attractive. But women aren't impressed
Looksmaxxing, fibermaxxing, proteinmaxxing, T-maxxing. There are so many TikTok trends that promise to optimize our lives.
Medical Xpress / Decision support guidelines safely reduce unnecessary testing for very sick children, study finds
Clinicians often collect an endotracheal aspirate culture (EAC) from patients of all ages with breathing tubes to check mucus for signs of bacterial infection, a complication that can be deadly. Historically, however, clinical ...
Tech Xplore / Meta hooked children and misled the public: Prosecutors
Meta hooked and exploited children, a federal court heard Tuesday in the trial of the social media giant on charges that it deliberately made Instagram and Facebook addictive to young users.
Phys.org / US moves to open vast tracts of pristine forests to logging
President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday proposed a rule change that would open 44 million acres (about 68,750 square miles) of wild, undisturbed forest for road construction and logging.
Phys.org / ISS hosts first spacewalk by a Frenchwoman
Sophie Adenot became the first French woman astronaut to venture outside the International Space Station (ISS) for a spacewalk on Tuesday, accompanied by American astronaut Anil Menon.
Phys.org / Retro phone trend reveals growing desire to disconnect
From wall-mounted smartphone docks to old-fashioned coiled-phone handsets, a growing trend for retro phone accessories may be a sign that many people are looking for ways to create distance from their smartphones.
Phys.org / Nuking an asteroid on short notice could save us
Readers of a certain age will remember a golden era of asteroid films, capped by two with very different endings. "Deep Impact" drove home the devastating consequences of letting a large piece of rock hit our planet, whereas ...
Tech Xplore / China's Baidu, betting on AI, posts fifth straight quarterly revenue drop
Baidu posted a fifth straight drop in quarterly revenue on Tuesday as the Chinese tech giant expressed confidence in its transition to artificial intelligence services to drive long-term growth.
Medical Xpress / Patient-specific 'blood–brain tumor barrier chip' predicts how glioblastoma patients will respond to treatment
During cancer treatment, the same brain tumor can be treated with the same anticancer drug, but the effect can differ from patient to patient. A Korean research team has developed a chip that recreates a patient's own tumor ...
Phys.org / AI should transform the strategy process—but never make the final call, researcher argues
A practitioner article published in the SMS Explorer, "AI Will Help Formulate Strategy, But Should Never Finish It," by Michael Olenick challenges a growing assumption in the business world: that generative AI can take strategy ...
