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Phys.org / Four in five Australian adults support social media ban for kids

With Australia's social media ban coming into force this week, a new survey from Monash University has found that almost 4 out of 5 Australian adults support the Australian government's social media ban for children under ...

Dec 12, 2025 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Can you only poo at home? A gastroenterologist explains what the Germans call 'heimscheisser'

Poo anxiety, bashful bowels, shy bowel syndrome: they're all terms for what's medically known as parcopresis or difficulty pooping when you're not at home. The Germans have given a name to this condition: Heimscheißer (pronounced ...

Dec 12, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / Online shopping makes it harder to make ethical consumption choices, research says

As the Christmas shopping period begins in earnest following Black Friday and Cyber Monday, new research led by the University of Birmingham and the University of Bristol sheds light on how consumers' environmental and social ...

Dec 12, 2025 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / New vulnerability of asthma immune cells discovered

Why do certain immune cells remain permanently active in allergic asthma—even in an environment that should actually damage them? A team from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the University of Bonn has discovered ...

Dec 11, 2025 in Immunology
Medical Xpress / Plant-based diets in children: Largest study of its kind highlights benefits—and risks

Vegetarian and vegan diets can support healthy growth when carefully planned with appropriate supplementation, finds a major new meta-analysis—the most comprehensive study to date of plant-based diets in children.

Dec 12, 2025 in Health
Phys.org / Buffalo blizzard study shows travel bans lose effectiveness as storms persist

When Buffalo, New York's devastating December 2022 blizzard claimed more than 30 lives, it exposed a hard reality: Even life-saving travel bans can lose their force over time, especially when residents face situations where ...

Dec 12, 2025 in Earth
Medical Xpress / Mini-gut model reveals how Ebola and Marburg disrupt the gastrointestinal tract

Ebola (EBOV) and Marburg virus (MARV) are highly lethal viruses that cause severe disease in infected patients by extensively damaging the body. This includes the gastrointestinal tract. Severe diarrhea followed by dehydration ...

Dec 11, 2025 in Gastroenterology
Tech Xplore / Speech-to-reality system creates objects on demand using AI and robotics

Generative AI and robotics are moving us ever closer to the day when we can ask for an object and have it created within a few minutes. In fact, MIT researchers have developed a speech-to-reality system, an AI-driven workflow ...

Dec 8, 2025 in Robotics
Tech Xplore / Infant-inspired framework helps robots learn to interact with objects

Over the past decades, roboticists have introduced a wide range of advanced systems that can move around in their surroundings and complete various tasks. Most of these robots can effectively collect images and other data ...

Dec 9, 2025 in Robotics
Medical Xpress / UK health service battles 'super flu' outbreak

The UK is facing an "unprecedented wave of super flu," a health chief has warned, as Prime Minister Keir Starmer Friday denounced "reckless" plans by doctors to launch a five-day strike next week.

Dec 12, 2025 in Health
Phys.org / Study links vanishing of specific heats at absolute zero with principle of entropy increase

In a new publication, Professor José-María Martín-Olalla, from the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Seville, has described the direct link between the vanishing of specific heats at absolute ...

Dec 10, 2025 in Physics
Phys.org / Listening to Kamilaroi Women: Report findings highlight risk of losing art of cooking with native grasses

Ganalay and guli are species of native grasses—used as a food source and ground into a flour—that used to thrive on the black alluvial soil plains of Moree, New South Wales, particularly after heavy rains or flooding.

Dec 12, 2025 in Earth