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Medical Xpress / Study finds a better way to screen for breast cancer
A pioneering study has found that an individualized approach to breast cancer screening that assesses patients' risk, rather than annual mammograms, can lower the chance of more advanced cancers, while still safely match ...
Medical Xpress / Health insurance costs spike in California for businesses, workers after pandemic
The cost of employer-sponsored health insurance in California rose at twice the pace of inflation over the past three years, squeezing workers' paychecks and small businesses alike.
Phys.org / We analyzed 73,000 articles and found the UK media is divorcing 'climate change' from net zero
In October 2024, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch declared herself a "net zero skeptic," but "not a climate skeptic." Most recently she doubled down, announcing plans to scrap the 2030 ban on new petrol cars in a 900-word ...
Medical Xpress / Foods with healthy-sounding buzzwords could be hiding added sugar in plain sight
Many consumers feel pride in avoiding the glazed pastries in the supermarket and instead opting for "all natural" granola that comes packed with extra protein. Same goes for low-fat yogurts "made with real fruit," organic ...
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 ...
Phys.org / Just 5 minutes of training makes fake AI faces easier to spot
Five minutes of training can significantly improve people's ability to identify fake faces created by artificial intelligence, research published in the journal Royal Society Open Science shows.
Medical Xpress / Worried about statins? Here's what the evidence shows
Few medicines have sparked as much debate as statins. Cardiologists often describe them as life-saving, while some patients remain wary of side effects or uneasy about taking a daily pill.
Phys.org / More than 16,000 dinosaur tracks discovered at a site in Bolivia
Scientists have discovered the single largest dinosaur track site in the world in Carreras Pampa, Torotoro National Park, Bolivia. The tracks were made about 70 million years ago, in the late Cretaceous Period, by theropods—bipedal ...
Phys.org / What 38 million obituaries reveal about how Americans define a 'life well lived'
Obituaries preserve what families most want remembered about the people they cherish most. Across time, they also reveal the values each era chose to honor.
Tech Xplore / New England unions push back against Trump administration's move to freeze offshore wind projects
Worker unions and politicians in New England are pushing back against the Trump administration's move to implement a 90-day freeze on five industrial-sized offshore wind projects off the East Coast, including the Vineyard ...
Phys.org / Research uncovers the telltale tail of black hole collisions
When black holes collide, the impact radiates into space like the sound of a bell in the form of gravitational waves. But after the waves, there comes a second reverberation—a murmur that physicists have theorized but never ...
Medical Xpress / Why so many young people in China are hugging trees
In Beijing's central district, trees are everywhere: in parks, along roadsides and in courtyards inside people's houses. Many have only been planted in recent decades.
