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Medical Xpress / Prenatal opioid exposure impacts child well-being through adolescence, finds study

Children with prenatal opioid exposure face struggles in health, education, and social well-being throughout their childhoods and teenage years, even when sociodemographic factors are factored out. The global opioid crisis ...

50 minutes ago in Addiction
Phys.org / How realistic does a supermarket need to be? Study examines consumer research methods

Researchers from the University of Bonn have taken a comprehensive look at how scientists study consumer behavior in supermarkets. Their review, published in the International Journal of Consumer Studies, covers everything ...

40 minutes ago in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Hidden atomic dichotomy drives superconductivity in ultra-thin compound

Physicists in China have unveiled new clues to the origins of high-temperature superconductivity in an iron-based material just a single unit-cell thick. Led by Qi-Kun Xue and Lili Wang at Tsinghua University, the team's ...

2 hours ago in Physics
Medical Xpress / Fecal transplants from older mice found to significantly improve ovarian function and fertility in younger mice

A new study details how fecal transplants from older female mice significantly improve ovarian function and fertility in young mice. The surprising results reveal a direct link between the microbiome (the collection of all ...

1 hour ago in Obstetrics & gynaecology
Phys.org / Deadly soil fungal pathogen puts Australia's reptiles at risk of extinction

University of Queensland researchers say Australia's reptiles are at risk of extinction because a little understood fungus is infecting species throughout the environment. Associate Professor Celine Frere from UQ's School ...

1 hour ago in Biology
Medical Xpress / Pollution exposure linked to mental health problems: EU agency

Environmental pollution is linked to several mental health disorders in Europe, the European Environment Agency (EEA) warned Tuesday, arguing that enforcing legislation would result in Europeans being both less depressed ...

1 hour ago in Health
Medical Xpress / Does sparkling water hydrate as well as regular water? Here's what the fizz can do

Water, water, everywhere … how to decide which one to drink? Thirsty consumers face dozens of options these days, from tap to bottled to carbonated, flavored, infused and caffeinated waters. Increasingly, they're reaching ...

1 hour ago in Health
Medical Xpress / Diabetes and liver medications failed to treat long COVID

The search for long COVID treatments continues, as a randomized clinical trial found that a two-week course of metformin or ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) did not meaningfully improve recovery from symptoms, despite earlier ...

2 hours ago in Medications
Medical Xpress / Your lifestyle trajectory greatly influences your weight, study says

Today, almost a third of U.S. adults are overweight and 43% have obesity. Behaviors that are likely to influence weight may be cemented early on. Early adulthood, from ages 18 to 25, is a time when people tend to experience ...

2 hours ago in Overweight & Obesity
Phys.org / Researchers engineer cold-tolerant proteins to give US an Arctic edge

As the Arctic region becomes increasingly contested, the U.S. military faces a new era of challenges in one of the world's most inhospitable environments. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) ...

2 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / Australians face misinformation online daily, research reveals

Australians routinely encounter misinformation in their everyday online lives, and it's not just limited to politics or pandemics, according to new research in collaboration with QUT's Digital Media Research Center. The study, ...

3 hours ago in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Permafrost is key to carbon storage. That makes northern wildfires even more dangerous

The devastating wildfires in northern Canada in recent years have climate consequences that go far beyond smoke and carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere, according to a new study co-authored by two NAU researchers. ...

5 hours ago in Earth