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Phys.org / Red dwarf stars might starve alien plants of the 'quality' light they need to breathe

Red dwarfs make up the vast majority of stars in the galaxy. Such ubiquity means they host the majority of rocky exoplanets we've found so far—which in turn makes them interesting for astrobiological surveys. However, there's ...

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Medical Xpress / HIV-seq tool finds active reservoir cells during therapy

For people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), life-saving antiretroviral therapy keeps their HIV-infected immune cells from making new copies of the virus, preventing illness and transmission. Historically, these ...

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Phys.org / Analysis of 1,000 Tinder profiles reveals nine standard pose types

Choosing a Tinder profile picture may feel like a free, personal and creative act. But how true is that? A new study from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) shows that, far from being unique, most users follow one ...

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Phys.org / NASA's DART test for planetary defense proved it can shift an asteroid's solar orbit

Four years ago, NASA purposely smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid to see if they could deflect it—a test to prove humanity could protect Earth from threatening space rocks.

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Medical Xpress / Latest treatments help ease essential tremor symptoms

About a decade ago, Joan Riggs, a 64-year-old from Lemoyne, started to have shaky hands. At first, it was an annoyance. However, as the tremors worsened, they kept her from doing the activities she enjoyed most.

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Tech Xplore / 'AI will be the end of us': Is Colm Tóibín right about the threat to creative writing?

In 1950, William Faulkner delivered a famous acceptance speech for the Nobel prize in literature in which he rallied for the "inexhaustible [human] voice" and his belief in its supremacy—not merely to endure but to prevail. ...

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Medical Xpress / Rising tree pollen counts signal start of allergy season

If you live in parts of the West and South, you may already be reaching for your allergy meds.

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Medical Xpress / When floods hit, the risk of malaria follows: How disaster systems can prepare better

When floods sweep through southern Africa, the most visible damage is immediate: homes washed away, crops destroyed, clinics disrupted, families displaced. These images dominate headlines and humanitarian appeals. But as ...

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Phys.org / The coldest 'stars' in the galaxy might actually be alien megastructures

Ever since physicist Freeman Dyson first proposed the concept in 1960, the "Dyson sphere" has been the holy grail of techno-signature hunters. A highly advanced civilization could build a "sphere" (or, in our more modern ...

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Phys.org / What's in your salad? Crops exposed to nanoplastics may boost heavy metal intake

Leafy vegetables like lettuce are readily available in grocery stores and often seen as a healthy food choice. As researchers work to understand how emerging contaminants behave in plants, new research is shedding light on ...

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Medical Xpress / Digital transformation of food retail is reshaping food access for consumers

A research report published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior examines how the rapid digitalization of the retail food environment is reshaping food access in the United States and highlights implications ...

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Medical Xpress / Study maps complex interplay between cells, metabolism, and immunity in breast cancer lymph node metastasis

A recent integrative analysis of single-cell sequencing and single-cell spatial mapping of lymph node metastasis in breast cancer reveals novel mechanisms of the metabolic-immune interaction that drive the spread of breast ...

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