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Medical Xpress / A multimodal AI model may improve recurrence risk stratification in early breast cancer

An artificial intelligence (AI) model created by integrating clinical, molecular, and histopathological data significantly improved recurrence risk stratification in hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer, ...

17 hours ago in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / Environmental sustainability pays off—but mostly for media-savvy firms

Whatever else they may be, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives are very often an image-building exercise. Business leaders hope that by being seen to put ethical responsibilities over profits, they will ...

18 hours ago in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Stricter approval process reduces prescribing of anti-seizure drug that can cause birth defects

The introduction of a stricter approval process for prescribing an anti-seizure drug that can cause birth defects when taken during pregnancy has been effective at reducing the number of prescriptions issued for the drug, ...

16 hours ago in Medications
Medical Xpress / FDA investigating possible adult deaths from COVID vaccines

The Food and Drug Administration is investigating whether COVID-19 vaccines caused deaths in adults, as part of a safety review that earlier appeared to just be focused on children.

18 hours ago in Health
Medical Xpress / AI therapy works best when you feel emotionally close to your chatbot, study reveals

Mental health chatbots work best when people form an emotional connection with their AI therapist, according to new research by the University of Sussex published in Social Science & Medicine.

18 hours ago in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Engineers decode dementia type using AI and EEG brainwave analysis

Dementia is a group of disorders that gradually impair memory, thinking and daily functioning. Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of dementia, affects about 7.2 million Americans aged 65 and older in 2025. Frontotemporal ...

Phys.org / New UN report outlines economic pathways for tackling planetary crisis

A new global assessment of the planet's environmental health was unveiled this week at the seventh UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-7), with University of Portsmouth researchers playing a central role in shaping its economic ...

18 hours ago in Earth
Tech Xplore / Why the Bay Area is key to the new US push to win the international AI race

Bay Area laboratories are set to play a central role in the Genesis Mission, a multibillion-dollar effort by the Trump administration to accelerate the nation's artificial intelligence push in the face of technological advances ...

18 hours ago in Business
Phys.org / NASA astronaut back on Earth after 8 months on space station

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim flew home with two Roscosmos cosmonauts from the International Space Station packed tight in their Soyuz spacecraft landing in the frozen steppes of Kazakhstan on Dec. 9 to complete an eight-month ...

18 hours ago in Astronomy & Space
Tech Xplore / First testing of grid-scale battery technology begins at the grid storage launchpad

The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has begun the first tests of a utility-grade battery at the new Grid Storage Launchpad, a major milestone for DOE's investment in advanced energy storage.

18 hours ago in Energy & Green Tech
Phys.org / New research suggests warming winters could cause DNA damage in lizards

The findings of a new academic paper suggest that warming winters are causing damage to the DNA of some lizards.

19 hours ago in Biology
Tech Xplore / NASA demonstrates safer skies for future urban air travel

NASA is helping shape the future of urban air travel with a new simulation that will manage how electric air taxis and drones can successfully operate within busy areas.

18 hours ago in Automotive