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Medical Xpress / The condition that causes people to get lost in their own home

Think about the last time you used your phone to find your way somewhere. What would happen if, halfway through the journey, the route instructions vanished or your phone battery died? You might find yourself starting to ...

21 hours ago
Phys.org / Can climate shocks change how people feel about paying taxes?

Climate-related disasters are becoming more frequent and more intense across sub-Saharan Africa. Floods, droughts, heat waves and storms are no longer isolated environmental events. They increasingly shape livelihoods, inequality, ...

21 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Family of drugs used for treating muscular dystrophy could improve brain tumor treatment

A drug from the same family licensed for use in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and blood cancer could transform the treatment of meningioma—the most common form of primary brain tumor in adults. Scientists at the ...

22 hours ago
Phys.org / Unintended climate trade-off: Clean air policies intensify urban heat island in humid cities, study finds

Researchers at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have uncovered a critical, underrecognized trade-off in global environmental policies: While essential for improving public health, large-scale air pollution reductions are ...

23 hours ago
Phys.org / Hawaiian short-eared owl deaths in Hawaiʻi primarily caused by vehicle collisions

Trauma from vehicle collisions caused the majority of documented deaths for the Pueo (Hawaiian short-eared owl), according to a statewide study led by researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The findings represent ...

23 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Threat beyond the lungs: How PM2.5 exposure fuels bladder cancer progression

Air pollution is globally recognized as a silent killer, with its detrimental effects on the respiratory and cardiovascular systems well documented. However, a pioneering study from Taiwan sheds light on a less visible but ...

21 hours ago
Tech Xplore / WhatsApp will allow users to go by usernames instead of phone numbers, closing a privacy blind spot

WhatsApp users will soon get the option of going by usernames instead of phone numbers, the company said Monday, announcing plans to address a privacy blind spot.

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Medical Xpress / What adolescents and young adults with cancer want researchers to know

Cancer cases among adolescents and young adults in Canada are increasing, with nearly 10,000 cases last year alone. People between the ages of 15 and 39 have been referred to as cancer's "lost tribe" and "forgotten generation" ...

22 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Efforts to end school vaccine mandates hit a wall in Florida

Every state, along with Washington, D.C., requires children to obtain certain vaccinations before they can attend school or childcare These mandates date back decades, and many public health experts consider them a foundational ...

13 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Eye-tracking technology helps researchers see IV pump safety through student nurses' eyes

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are using eye-tracking technology to help understand how nurses interact with intravenous smart pumps, providing a new way to identify design flaws in systems associated ...

22 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Mapping trade-offs to help build better EV batteries

Working with car companies, battery developers and policymakers, University of Michigan researchers have developed a framework to help stakeholders navigate toward a future with better, more affordable and more sustainable ...

23 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Enabling mass production of flexible electronic devices through real-time compensation of substrate distortion

A digital lithography system capable of continuously patterning flexible substrates has been developed. The system integrates maskless digital lithography with roll-to-roll (R2R) manufacturing, allowing patterns to be generated ...

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