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Medical Xpress / Guns marketed for personal safety fuel public health crisis in Black communities

Leon Harris, 35, is intimately familiar with the devastation guns can inflict. Robbers shot him in the back nearly two decades ago, leaving him paralyzed from the chest down. The bullet remains lodged in his spine.

Dec 29, 2025 in Health
Medical Xpress / Five new year's resolutions to help you breathe easier

Making resolutions for the new year?

Dec 29, 2025 in Health
Phys.org / New reactor produces clean energy and carbon nanotubes from natural gas

Scientists from the University of Cambridge have developed a new reactor that converts natural gas (a common energy source primarily composed of methane) into two highly valuable resources: clean hydrogen fuel and carbon ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Physics
Medical Xpress / 'Love actually,' 'Four Christmases' and the science of holiday comfort movies

Every winter, millions of people curl up on the couch and press play on the same beloved holiday movies—whether it's "Love Actually," "The Holiday," "The Family Stone" or "Four Christmases."

Dec 29, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Alzheimer's disease can be reversed in animal models to achieve full neurological recovery

For over a century, Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been considered irreversible. Consequently, research has focused on disease prevention or slowing, rather than recovery. Despite billions of dollars spent on decades of research, ...

Dec 24, 2025 in Neuroscience
Phys.org / Raindrops form 'sandballs' as they roll downhill, contributing more to erosion than previously thought

What happens as a raindrop impacts bare soil has been fairly well-studied, but what happens to raindrops afterward is poorly understood. We know that the initial splash of raindrops on soil contributes to erosion, but a new ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Physics
Phys.org / The chaotic 'Dracula's Chivito': Hubble reveals largest birthplace of planets ever observed

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young star. For the first time in visible light, Hubble has revealed the disk is unexpectedly chaotic and ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Study shows the 2008 recession caused people to identify with a lower class

Class identity, which is how individuals view their economic and social positions in relation to others, has wide-ranging effects on people's well-being, thoughts, and behavior. Previous studies have shown that people who ...

Dec 22, 2025 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Archaeologists discover unique mosaic patolli board at Guatemalan Maya city

In a study published in Latin American Antiquity, Dr. Julien Hiquet and Dr. Rémi Méreuze analyzed the remains of a unique mosaic-style patolli game board discovered in the Classic Period city of Naachtun, Guatemala.

Dec 25, 2025 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Observations catch galaxy cluster in the process of merging

Astronomers have used the Keck Observatory's DEIMOS multi-object spectrograph to observe a nearby galaxy cluster designated RXC J0032.1+1808. As a result, they found that the cluster undergoes a major merging event. The finding ...

Dec 24, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / New Guineans and Aboriginal Australians descend from two groups who arrived 60,000 years ago, research suggests

A collaboration between the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group and the University of Southampton's Center for Maritime Archaeology, has clarified the first settlement of New Guinea and Australia by ...

Dec 25, 2025 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Scientists crack ancient salt crystals to unlock secrets of 1.4 billion-year-old air

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like modern-day Death Valley evaporated under the sun's gentle heat, leaving behind crystals of halite—rock ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Astronomy & Space