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Medical Xpress / Family medicine shortage: Why future doctors look elsewhere
Dr. Genaro DeLeon, a resident physician at the Cleveland Clinic, couldn't decide between pursuing surgery or family medicine.
Tech Xplore / Can you teach yourself to detect AI writing? Maybe
AI is quietly reshaping writing. It's not just that prose is changing—the very structure of written language is genuinely changing too.
Phys.org / Cool Japan: Human fridge chills workers in extreme heat
Feeling dizzy and unwell after cycling to work in Japan's punishing summer heat, warehouse worker Isao Tabuchi headed for his company's newest acquisition: a refrigerator for humans.
Phys.org / NASA starshade would enable astronomers to directly image rocky exoworlds
A NASA-led team hopes to take a shortcut to direct imaging of extrasolar Earth-like planets. The idea is to use what they call a hybrid telescope composed of an orbital starshade coupled with the next-generation extremely ...
Medical Xpress / Higher diet quality linked to improved lung function in asthma, COPD
Higher diet quality is associated with better lung function (LF), especially among individuals with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a study published in ERJ Open Research.
Phys.org / The midlife clock is ticking: How we understand 'time left' can help us use it well
In Adaptation and the Life Cycle, psychologist Bernice Neugarten tells us that we arrive in our middle years by our social clocks, not our age.
Tech Xplore / Humanity's race to mimic the stars
For decades, nuclear fusion has been the physicist's dream: abundant, carbon-free power drawn from the same reaction that keeps the sun burning. Now it might be shifting from scientific ambition to industrial reality.
Phys.org / Temperature-tunable micropillars enable programmable sorting of particles and cells
A programmable microfluidic device developed at the Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan, combines deterministic lateral displacement, a microfluidic technique used to separate particles according to size, with temperature-responsive ...
Phys.org / Metal ceramics under AI control: A new approach for calculating the mechanical properties of materials
Researchers from the Skoltech Materials Center have proposed a new approach to modeling the mechanical properties of heterogeneous materials, combining machine learning with active learning on local chemical configurations. ...
Medical Xpress / How much of a cancer drug is too much? Patients, researchers challenge FDA-approved dosages
Northwestern University economist Chuck Manski studies decision-making amid uncertainty. That prepared him better than many other cancer patients to decide whether to stay on an immunotherapy treatment that was making him ...
Phys.org / Rising carbon dioxide is supercharging grass growth in African savannas, study finds
Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide is boosting grass growth in Africa's water-limited savannas, according to a new study led by the University of Sheffield.
Phys.org / Dark energy and quantum gravity may be deeply intertwined
For close to a century, physicists have pursued a way to unite gravity with quantum mechanics. Known as quantum gravity, this goal has remained frustratingly out of reach so far. Similarly elusive is the force of dark energy, ...