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Phys.org / The bond between humans and dogs remains remarkably consistent across societies, cross-cultural study reveals

A new study by an international research team led by Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig) has revealed striking similarities in the way humans and dogs interact ...

Jun 27, 2026
Medical Xpress / Intermittent fasting maintains long-term weight loss, regardless of meal timing, study shows

A team of scientists from the University of Granada (UGR), the Granada Institute for Biomedical Research (ibs.GRANADA), the Public University of Navarra and the Biomedical Research Networking Center (CIBER) has demonstrated ...

Jul 3, 2026
Medical Xpress / You can dream while you're awake. The boundary between wakefulness and sleep is a lot blurrier than you'd think

Tonight, as you close your eyes in bed, something strange will happen to you: Your mind will drift from an ordinary thought to a dream, but it will be impossible to say exactly when it happened. We tend to imagine that the ...

Jul 3, 2026
Phys.org / Reanalysis suggests 'Phoebe' is a variable star, not a primordial black hole

A new study debunks a recent claim that astronomers may have detected a lunar-mass primordial black hole. In a reanalysis of observations from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), researchers found that the star nicknamed "Phoebe" ...

Jun 28, 2026
Phys.org / Hunting behavior drives the evolution of spider eye arrangements, study finds

Vision shapes how many animals find food, avoid danger and navigate their world. In animals with two eyes, eye placement is often linked to lifestyle: predators such as lions tend to have forward-facing eyes that help them ...

Jul 2, 2026
Phys.org / MOF thin films reveal hidden dense packing, challenging decades of porous assumptions

Due to their high porosity, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are regarded as promising materials for innovative applications, which is why the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in 2025 for their discovery. They are used, ...

Jul 2, 2026
Medical Xpress / Dementia-causing substance turns into a therapeutic 'switch' with new Alzheimer's drug strategy

A substance that worsens dementia has become a "switch" that initiates treatment. KAIST researchers have developed a new therapeutic approach that uses hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂), a reactive oxygen species that damages cells ...

Jul 2, 2026
Medical Xpress / We can't entirely blame COVID vaccine mandates for lower vaccination rates today. It's not that simple

Childhood vaccination rates have slumped globally. In several countries, people are more hesitant about getting vaccinated. Populist political actors promote distrust of government and scientific institutions. And the disinformation ...

Jul 3, 2026
Phys.org / Austin neighborhood tap water tests uncover lead and arsenic in homes

For more than a decade, residents of Austin's Colony, a neighborhood in an unincorporated area of southeast Austin outside the city service area, have voiced concern about their tap water's intermittent discoloration and ...

Jul 2, 2026
Phys.org / Why nanoscale droplets don't coalesce and microscale droplets do

Olive oil and water do not naturally mix. Water molecules are polar, having a net electric dipole moment due to the bend angle of about 104.5° between the two oxygen-hydrogen bonds. Olive oil is nonpolar due to its long hydrocarbon ...

Jun 29, 2026
Medical Xpress / Inhaled analgesia is as effective as morphine for early pain relief, study shows

Treating pain while in the field can be very demanding. Researchers have finally identified an effective alternative for providing pain relief during the earliest phase of prehospital care, when establishing intravenous access ...

Jul 2, 2026
Medical Xpress / COVID's lingering shadow faded after omicron—but not for everyone

Six years after the world first learned of COVID-19, the pandemic has faded into an unpleasant memory for many. For others, however, it never fully ended. A long-term study by Hiroshima University has found that while lingering ...

Jul 2, 2026