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Medical Xpress / Faster to trials? Low-dose THC plus celecoxib improved cognition in Alzheimer's model mice

In recent years, research into cannabis and its main psychoactive ingredient, Δ⁹-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), has unearthed medical benefits including anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective properties. However, THC is also ...

Jan 29, 2026 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / New nanotherapy eases bone metastasis pain by disrupting tumor-nerve crosstalk

A new nano-sized drug carrier that finds bone tumors and releases treatment exactly where it's needed is here to improve the precision and comfort of cancer therapy. Designed by a team of researchers from China, this smart ...

Jan 28, 2026 in Medical research
Medical Xpress / Hippocampus does more than store memories: It predicts rewards, study finds

A preclinical study published in Nature has found evidence that the hippocampus, the brain region that stores memory, also reorganizes memories to anticipate future outcomes.

Jan 29, 2026 in Neuroscience
Phys.org / King's Trough: How a shifting plate boundary and hot mantle material shaped an Atlantic mega-canyon

The King's Trough Complex is a several-hundred-kilometer-long, canyon-like system of trenches on the North Atlantic seafloor. Its formation was long thought to be the result of simple stretching of the oceanic crust. An international ...

Jan 29, 2026 in Earth
Phys.org / Crosstalk inside cells helps pathogens evade drugs, study finds

Biologists have uncovered a new mode of communication inside cells that helps bacterial pathogens learn how to evade drugs. Their findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, describe how these mechanisms drive ...

Jan 29, 2026 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Is everyday school life more stressful for teenagers than a global pandemic?

Lockdowns isolated teenagers from friends, disrupted their routines, and kept them at home with daily reports of bad news. So most people assume teenagers felt worse during COVID-19 lockdowns, but a Tokyo study shows the ...

Jan 29, 2026 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / Cleaner ship fuel changed clouds, but not their climate balance

To reduce air pollution associated with ocean transport, the International Maritime Organization tightened restrictions on sulfur content in ship fuel, resulting in an 80% reduction in emissions by 2020. That shift created ...

Jan 29, 2026 in Earth
Phys.org / Artemis II: The first human mission to the moon in 54 years launches soon, with a Canadian on board

It's been 54 years since the last Apollo mission, and since then, humans have not ventured beyond low-Earth orbit. But that's all about to change with next week's launch of the Artemis II mission from the Kennedy Space Center ...

Jan 29, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / How does long COVID develop? New piece of the puzzle found

How long COVID develops is still largely unknown. New molecular connections are revealed in a recent study led by the Center for Individualized Infection Medicine (CiiM), which is a joint institution of the Helmholtz Center ...

Medical Xpress / Artificial lung system keeps patient alive without lungs until transplant

Humans can't live without lungs, but Ankit Bharat's patient did for 48 hours.

Jan 29, 2026 in Surgery
Medical Xpress / One in 1,000 dies: Framing matters for communicating medical numbers, experts say

Similar—yet not the same: Many studies show that patients often struggle to interpret numerical information in medical contexts, especially probabilities related to recovery and side effects. In a recently published Letter ...

Jan 29, 2026 in Health
Phys.org / Svalbard polar bears show improved fat reserves despite sea ice loss

The body conditions of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) populations around the Norwegian island of Svalbard have improved despite sea ice losses, according to new findings. The findings differ from previously published observations ...

Jan 29, 2026 in Biology