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Medical Xpress / Just 3 minutes with miniature horses and donkeys improves mood of teens
Interacting with animals can make people feel calmer, less lonely and less anxious. A new study from the University of California, Davis, shows that animals play an active role in shaping these interactions and their outcomes.
Medical Xpress / Gut infection may train immune sentries at the brain's border to remember microbes
The brain and spinal cord are highly protected treasures of the central nervous system, wrapped under three protective layers of meninges. The outermost layer, the dura mater, has leaky windows through which bacteria or parasites ...
Tech Xplore / AI can sound empathetic and human—but not at the same time
AI-generated texts are increasingly perceived as human, but people can still recognize human writing as such. However, this distinction becomes much more difficult once AI is explicitly instructed to come across as human. ...
Phys.org / Gravitational-wave analysis narrows the search for black hole impostors
Black holes are regions of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. When two black holes orbit each other and merge, they produce gravitational waves (i.e., ripples in spacetime) that ...
Medical Xpress / AI helps pathologists find signs of preeclampsia, advancing diagnosis and treatment
Preeclampsia is one of the leading causes of pregnancy-related death. Even after a healthy delivery, mother and baby can go home only to show signs of a postpartum hypertensive disorder days or weeks later.
Phys.org / First confirmed Diplodocus outside North America reshapes Late Jurassic migration picture
In a discovery that challenges our understanding of dinosaur distribution during the Late Jurassic period, paleontologists have identified the first evidence of the iconic Diplodocus outside North America.
Phys.org / Tough vehicle and construction plastics dissolve into reusable material with low-waste method
A new recycling technique could help tackle a major challenge: breaking down some of the toughest plastics without generating large amounts of waste.
Medical Xpress / Stopping dying cells from rupturing could help donor livers withstand transplantation
During transplantation, blood flow to the donor liver must stop as it's moved to the recipient. Once transplanted, oxygen-rich blood is restored, yet doing so can cause what is called ischemia-reperfusion injury. To protect ...
Tech Xplore / Rocket experiment tracks how liquid metal solidifies in microgravity
Scientists have used an X-ray detector on a sounding rocket, a type of research rocket that flies to the edge of space, then returns to Earth within minutes, to document metal dendrites—the branching structures that form ...
Medical Xpress / Scientists pinpoint two brain regions that battle it out when deciding whether to take a risk
Every day, your brain runs the same calculation: Take a risk or play it safe? Your gas tank might be low, but there's just enough to make it to work on time. Do you stop and risk being late? If you're out of money at the ...
Medical Xpress / Simulated epidemics could lead to more reliable hospitalization forecasts
A mathematical model is a simplified description of reality that can be used to solve practical problems, predict future events or explain how different systems work. During pandemics, mathematical models can be valuable ...
Phys.org / Physicists help uncover 'spooky' quantum effect in the Large Hadron Collider
Physicists at the University of Oxford have helped confirm that one of the strangest phenomena in physics—quantum entanglement—occurs even among some of the heaviest and most fleeting particles ever created. The discovery, ...
