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Medical Xpress / Psychological buffer against wartime exhaustion for teachers revealed in new research

Beyond the lesson plans and grading, teachers during the war had to manage a complex layer of war-related stress that often went unnoticed but deeply affected their ability to stay in the profession. A recent study explores ...

14 hours ago in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Physicians are not 'providers': New paper says names in health care have ethical significance

A new ethics policy paper from the American College of Physicians (ACP) says the term "provider" should not be used to describe physicians, and using the blanket term undermines physicians' ethical responsibility, clinical ...

23 hours ago in Medical economics
Medical Xpress / How diet may worsen endometriosis: What the AGE-RAGE pathway suggests

Researchers have been studying how the chemistry of cooking food includes similarities to the molecular process of endometriosis lesions. When these lesions form, the presence of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) appears ...

Medical Xpress / Legalization of cannabis and retail sales linked to rise in its use and co-use of tobacco

The legalization of cannabis and the start of retail sales of the drug in the US are linked to both a rise in its recreational use and concurrent use of tobacco, as well as a fall in sole tobacco use, finds an analysis of ...

22 hours ago in Addiction
Phys.org / How imagery styles shape pathways into STEM and why gender gaps persist

New research is proving persistent gender gaps in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers can't be explained by academic ability alone. A recent Baycrest study suggests that success in STEM careers ...

23 hours ago in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Pandemic-era childhood obesity gains persist; young children most affected

The Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health at IU Indianapolis has released updated findings on childhood obesity trends through 2024. The new report shows that while the sharp pandemic-era increase in obesity ...

23 hours ago in Overweight & Obesity
Medical Xpress / California mushroom poisonings are on the rise: What's being done to curb exposure?

David Yturralde arrived at the mushroom talk in Newport Beach recently armed with a pen and paper and a host of questions. The goal, he said, was to demystify those fascinating fungi that popped up on his grass after heavy ...

22 hours ago in Health
Phys.org / Building blocks of life discovered in Bennu asteroid rewrite origin story

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu, delivered to Earth in 2023 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. How those amino acids—the ...

Feb 9, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Who owns our digital afterlife? Helping the law keep pace with society

Alongside traditional estates, we now leave behind digital remains after we die, from social media accounts and emails to AI-generated recreations of ourselves. Our digital legacies are creating new and potentially troubling ...

17 hours ago in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Nature's 'engine is grinding to a halt' as climate change gains pace, says study

Many ecologists hypothesize that, as global warming accelerates, change in nature must speed up. They assume that as temperatures rise and climatic zones shift, species will face local extinction and colonize new habitats ...

Feb 9, 2026 in Biology
Phys.org / Webb unveils nature of distant ultraviolet-luminous galaxy CEERS2-588

Astronomers from the University of Tokyo in Japan and elsewhere have employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a distant ultraviolet-luminous galaxy known as CEERS2-588. Results of the observational campaign, ...

Feb 7, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Image: Strong solar flare

This Feb. 4, 2026, image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captures a strong solar flare erupting from the star. Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy that can, along with other types of solar eruptions, impact ...

21 hours ago in Astronomy & Space