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Medical Xpress / Heated yoga can ease depressive symptoms, the more you go the better you feel

Heated yoga, or hot yoga, is practiced in a room heated to 32–40°C (90–105°F) and has gained popularity in recent years. The warmth helps loosen your muscles, making it easier to stretch and increasing workout intensity. ...

Jul 15, 2026
Medical Xpress / Common diet tips about water intake and spicy foods could be wrong

The common rationale for drinking water at meals is that it physically stretches the stomach, triggering fullness so you don't eat too much. But a new Cornell study found no support for that idea in practice. The paper is ...

Jul 16, 2026
Phys.org / Pump that recreates human heartbeat blood flow on lab chips inspired by an accordionist

For more than 25 years, lab-on-a-chip technology has allowed researchers to model human organs and blood vessels using real human cells in artificial microscopic environments. These microphysiological systems (MPS) may replicate ...

Jul 16, 2026
Medical Xpress / Are you listening to me? Well, kinda… Research shows people can track more than one conversation at once

Ever wondered how some people seem able to keep up with the conversation they're having while also noticing what's being said across the room? New research suggests this ability isn't simply good hearing but may reflect the ...

Jul 16, 2026
Tech Xplore / Engineers develop robot that judges its surroundings and walks, runs, and jumps like an animal

An era in which robots decide "how to walk" on their own has arrived. A four-legged robot has been developed that, much like a person or an animal, autonomously chooses the appropriate gait strategy for its surroundings—changing ...

Jul 16, 2026
Phys.org / Scientists achieve all-electrical control of single-molecule quantum states

Quantum technologies promise revolutionary advances in computing, sensing and information processing. However, controlling individual quantum bits (qubits) at the atomic scale remains a major challenge because conventional ...

Jul 16, 2026
Phys.org / How ions flow like a liquid through a solid crystal

A research team led by the University of Osaka, working with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), RIKEN and the Institute of Science Tokyo, has uncovered a fundamental mechanism behind ...

Jul 16, 2026
Medical Xpress / Immune receptor plays dual role in promoting T-cell exhaustion in cancer

A new Northwestern Medicine study has uncovered how a key immunoregulatory receptor plays an unexpected dual role in promoting T-cell exhaustion during chronic infection and cancer, according to findings published in the ...

Jul 16, 2026
Phys.org / Hybrid material confirms antiferroelectricity can coexist with switchable polarization

Many of the advanced electronic components surrounding us in everyday life rely on polar materials to function. Polar materials have an uneven distribution of electric charge. This gives them a positive and a negative side ...

Jul 16, 2026
Phys.org / Model highlights patterns in how humans move across different locations

Every day, billions of people travel from their homes to work, schools, health care facilities, restaurants, public venues and other destinations. The complex patterns that shape how people move between these different locations ...

Jul 15, 2026
Phys.org / Tiny gene edit cuts cadmium in rice by 48% without reducing yields

Cadmium (Cd) contamination poses a serious threat to global food safety. As a toxic and carcinogenic heavy metal, cadmium can accumulate in agricultural soils through industrialization and urbanization before entering the ...

Jul 16, 2026
Phys.org / Driving the speed limit could slash fuel use and emissions at the cost of only 54 extra seconds a day

Speeding in your car to work, to pick up your children from school, or go from one errand to the next not only wastes money in gas and sends harmful emissions into the air, it barely saves you time, new research says.

Jul 16, 2026