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Phys.org / Haze emergency grips Malaysian Borneo town
Acrid smoke hung heavily over the Malaysian town of Serian, seeping into homes and cloaking roadside stalls, as residents navigated an air-quality emergency fueled by transboundary haze from Indonesia's raging fires.
Phys.org / JWST reveals likely Type II supernova from when universe was only 2 billion years old
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified one of the most distant exploding stars ever confirmed. The supernova, SN 2023aeaf, was found at a redshift of 3.195—so far away that its light has been traveling ...
Phys.org / Archaea as 'flexitarians': Ammonia-oxidizing microbes also feed on amino acids
Symbiotic ammonia-oxidizing archaea in marine sponges are not strict specialists but true "flexitarians." A team led by microbiologists Bettina Glasl and Katharina Kitzinger from the University of Vienna, in collaboration ...
Phys.org / Spacecraft bound for Mercury begins 'tricky' arrival
After an eight-year journey, a spacecraft carrying European and Japanese probes began the monthslong, high-risk approach to Mercury on Thursday to study the sun-scorched planet.
Phys.org / AI suggests new physics experiments that could outperform human-designed setups
Research means asking questions of the universe. For centuries, clever minds have advanced science by devising ingenious experiments designed so their results reveal something about the laws of nature as clearly and unambiguously ...
Medical Xpress / Six-month community program improves attention and diet scores in older adults
As aging populations drive rising global health care demands, finding scalable ways to prevent cognitive decline has become a public health priority. While intensive clinical trials have shown that multidomain lifestyle interventions ...
Medical Xpress / Alcohol-linked cancer's toll extends far beyond the liver, with deaths rising across age groups
A Global Burden of Disease analysis estimated that the annual number of alcohol-attributable cancer deaths in the U.S. increased from 11,361 in 1990 to 23,126 in 2023. The study also revealed that alcohol-linked cancer deaths ...
Phys.org / Neutron bone imaging brings T. rex to life
A broken rib from Scotty, the largest T. rex skeleton discovered, is helping scientists uncover new information about life on Earth 66 million years ago. Scotty's rib preserves something rarely seen in the fossil record: ...
Medical Xpress / Immune cells may have a biological memory that makes weight loss harder after obesity
According to the World Health Organization, one in eight people lives with obesity. Yet despite numerous health education programs, books, articles and treatments, many individuals still struggle to lose weight once they ...
Phys.org / Mammalian genes can combine to make previously unknown mRNAs and proteins
For decades, scientists have understood that each of the roughly 20,000 genes in the human body carries instructions for a single kind of protein. Now, researchers at Harvard Medical School have discovered that instructions ...
Medical Xpress / Psilocybin prevents chemotherapy-related nerve injury and associated symptoms in preclinical models
In a breakthrough study, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center discovered that psilocybin given before chemotherapy prevented the onset of nerve injury in preclinical models, even after repeated ...
Medical Xpress / In a third of cases, AI chatbots wrongly reassure sleep apnea patients that their symptoms aren't serious
In a third of cases, AI chatbots wrongly reassure sleep apnea patients that their symptoms are not serious, discouraging them from seeking a referral to a specialist, according to research presented at the European Respiratory ...
