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Medical Xpress / Study links anxiety sensitivity, pain-related anxiety to hazardous drinking after assault

A psychologist at the University of Houston is providing guidance to improve the mental health of victims of sexual violence, recognized by major health organizations as a public health crisis with serious implications on ...

18 hours ago in Psychology & Psychiatry
Tech Xplore / Pinterest will lay off 15% of its workforce as the platform pivots resources to AI

Pinterest plans to lay off under 15% of its workforce, as part of broader restructuring that arrives as the image-sharing platform pivots more of its money to artificial intelligence.

21 hours ago in Business
Medical Xpress / Study cites link between mental health and long COVID in older women

Older women who have a history of both depression and anxiety had a 78% higher risk of developing long COVID after a SARS-CoV-2 infection, report University of California San Diego researchers. The findings appear in the ...

Medical Xpress / Genes, smoking and obesity raise pneumonia risk, especially for older adults

Researchers at the University of Oulu have identified genes that increase susceptibility to pneumonia. Alongside inherited risk factors, smoking and higher body mass were also found to raise the risk of developing the disease. ...

21 hours ago in Genetics
Tech Xplore / EU steps in to make sure Google gives rivals access to AI services and data

The European Union said Tuesday it's stepping in to make sure Google gives rival AI companies and search engines access to Gemini AI services and data as required by the bloc's flagship digital rulebook.

20 hours ago in Business
Medical Xpress / New therapeutic target for breast cancer involves double-stranded RNA-binding proteins

A Purdue University team has discovered a new therapeutic target for triple-negative breast cancer. The research, led by Kyle Cottrell, an assistant professor of biochemistry, spotlights double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA)-binding ...

22 hours ago in Immunology
Medical Xpress / Inactivating the SARS-CoV-2 virus using focused sound waves

A team of researchers from the Ministry of Health in Kuwait has successfully demonstrated the destruction of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles through exposure to high-frequency sound waves, marking a promising advance in non-pharmacological ...

Tech Xplore / TikTok settles hours before landmark social media addiction trial

Video sharing app TikTok has made an eleventh-hour deal to avoid a landmark US trial accusing it, along with Meta and YouTube, of addicting young people to social media, lawyers said on Tuesday.

21 hours ago in Business
Phys.org / Identifying dinosaurs from their footprints is difficult, but AI can help

When you hear the word "dinosaur," the first thing that might spring to mind is a hulking skeleton like Sue the T rex in Chicago's Field Museum or Sophie the Stegosaurus at the Natural History Museum in London. Dinosaur skeletons ...

23 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / How fire, people and history shaped the South's iconic longleaf pine forests

For thousands of years, one tree species defined the cultural and ecological identity of what is now the American South: the longleaf pine. The forest once stretched across 92 million acres from Virginia to Texas, but about ...

23 hours ago in Biology
Tech Xplore / Amazon is closing its Fresh grocery and Go convenience stores

Amazon.com Inc. is shuttering its Amazon-branded grocery stores and automated grab-and-go markets, eliminating two centerpieces of its push into physical retail.

22 hours ago in Consumer & Gadgets
Phys.org / Energy crisis coal switch increased emissions, illnesses and deaths across 6 countries

In addition to serious economic damage, the energy crisis of 2021/22 also had dramatic consequences for the environment and people's health. This is the conclusion reached by two researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität ...

23 hours ago in Earth