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Medical Xpress / Study uncovers beneficial relationship between gardening and osteoarthritis

Gardening/yardwork is one of the few forms of leisure physical activity that people tend to do more as they age. Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis and a major cause of disability that also tends to occur ...

16 minutes ago in Arthritis & Rheumatism
Medical Xpress / The role emotions play in inflammatory bowel disease

Many patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) suffer from abdominal pain even between acute inflammatory flare-ups. Altered processing of pain in response to fear may be involved. This is the conclusion of a research ...

25 minutes ago in Inflammatory disorders
Tech Xplore / Humanoid robots take center stage at Silicon Valley summit, but skepticism remains

Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors—too complicated, capital-intensive and "boring, honestly," says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui.

15 minutes ago in Robotics
Phys.org / German adults outperform international peers in complex problem-solving tasks, study finds

Adults in Germany are better than the international average at coping with problems in new and complex situations. However, this adaptive problem-solving skill depends more heavily on sociodemographic characteristics than ...

5 minutes ago in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Lab-grown neural circuits reveal thalamus's key role in cortex development

A Japanese research team has successfully reproduced the human neural circuit in vitro using multi-region miniature organs known as assembloids, which are derived from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. With this circuit, ...

1 hour ago in Neuroscience
Phys.org / Feedback loops from oil fields accelerate Arctic warming and other atmospheric changes, study shows

The climate is changing and nowhere is it changing faster than at Earth's poles. Researchers at Penn State have painted a comprehensive picture of the chemical processes taking place in the Arctic and found that there are ...

1 hour ago in Earth
Medical Xpress / Mini-tumors combine synthetic and real cells to simulate immune responses

Normally, the immune system recognizes and eliminates abnormal cells. However, cancer cells can develop strategies to evade this control: they block defense mechanisms or send inhibitory signals. In this way, tumors can grow ...

1 hour ago in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / Rare-earth europium substitution allows for more control over CO₂-to-fuel conversion

The electrochemical CO2 (carbon dioxide) reduction reaction takes harmful pollutants and transforms them into valuable products like fuel. However, selectively tailoring various processes in this reaction to successfully ...

1 hour ago in Chemistry
Medical Xpress / Exploring how misguided antibodies cause attacks on the nervous system

A review on autoimmune neurological diseases reveals what occurs in our body when the immune system, by mistake, produces antibodies that target a protein essential for the normal functioning of nerves. The result is hyperexcitability, ...

1 hour ago in Neuroscience
Tech Xplore / 'Periodic table' for AI methods aims to drive innovation

Artificial intelligence is increasingly used to integrate and analyze multiple types of data formats, such as text, images, audio and video. One challenge slowing advances in multimodal AI, however, is the process of choosing ...

2 hours ago in Computer Sciences
Phys.org / Earthquake rupture along Main Marmara Fault shows eastward progression towards Istanbul

In April 2025, the Main Marmara Fault below the Sea of Marmara in northwestern Türkiye experienced its largest earthquake in over 60 years. In a study published in Science, a team of researchers led by Prof. Dr. Patricia ...

2 hours ago in Earth
Tech Xplore / Organic solar cells achieve 20.02% efficiency with new giant acceptors

A research team has developed novel giant acceptors with an oxygenated linker, enabling the creation of highly efficient nonhalogenated-processed organic solar cells (OSCs), with a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of up ...

2 hours ago in Engineering