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Medical Xpress / 'Don't use them': Tanning beds triple skin cancer risk, study finds

When Heidi Tarr was a teenager, she used a tanning bed several times a week with her friends because they all wanted to glow like a celebrity.

Dec 28, 2025 in Health
Medical Xpress / 'Love actually,' 'Four Christmases' and the science of holiday comfort movies

Every winter, millions of people curl up on the couch and press play on the same beloved holiday movies—whether it's "Love Actually," "The Holiday," "The Family Stone" or "Four Christmases."

Dec 29, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Tech Xplore / How ChatGPT could change the face of advertising, without you even knowing about it

Online adverts are sometimes so personal that they feel eerie. Even as a researcher in this area, I'm slightly startled when I get a message asking if my son still needs school shirts a few hours after browsing for clothes ...

Dec 25, 2025 in Business
Medical Xpress / Five new year's resolutions to help you breathe easier

Making resolutions for the new year?

Dec 29, 2025 in Health
Phys.org / Mechanism for twisted growth of plant organs discovered

From morning glories spiraling up fence posts to grape vines corkscrewing through arbors, twisted growth is a problem-solving tool found throughout the plant kingdom. Roots "do the twist" all the time, skewing hard right ...

Dec 24, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Heart-brain connection: International study reveals role of vagus nerve in keeping the heart young

The secret to a healthier and "younger" heart lies in the vagus nerve. A recent study coordinated by the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and published in Science Translational Medicine has shown that preserving ...

Dec 24, 2025 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / How stomach cancer learns to grow on its own

Gastric (stomach) cancer remains one of the most common and deadly cancers in East Asia, including Korea. Yet despite its high prevalence, it has received far less molecular attention than colorectal cancer, which is more ...

Dec 25, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / New framework helps climate modelers integrate Indigenous community input into simulations

Advanced computer models can quantify the impacts of climate change and other environmental challenges, providing deep insights into things like streamflow, vegetation, wildlife and even the risk of wildfires.

Dec 28, 2025 in Earth
Medical Xpress / Scientists develop targeted therapy for T-cell lymphomas and leukemias

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center's Ludwig Center developed a new treatment that selectively targets TRBC2-positive T-cell cancers, expanding a precision approach they established in 2024 for TRBC1-positive ...

Dec 25, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Stimulant ADHD medications work differently than previously thought

Prescription stimulants, such as Ritalin and Adderall, are widely used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), including in children. In the U.S., about 3.5 million children aged 3 to 17 take an ADHD medication, ...

Dec 24, 2025 in Attention deficit disorders
Phys.org / Suspected shark attack at California occurred in time and place where large sharks come to feed

It's peak bulking-up season for white sharks in Monterey Bay, and over the past week, two animals previously tagged by scientists passed through the waters near Lovers Point—the same area where swimmer Erica Fox vanished ...

Dec 29, 2025 in Biology
Phys.org / Africa's rarest carnivore: The story of the first Ethiopian wolf ever captured, nursed and returned to the wild

What's the value of one animal? When a wild animal is found badly injured, the most humane option is often euthanasia to prevent further suffering. That's what usually happens, and often for good reason. Even when the resources ...

Dec 24, 2025 in Biology