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Medical Xpress / Visualizing neural connections in 3D with a new microscopy technique

Leiden researchers can now visualize the connections between brain cells. Their microscopy technique could significantly advance the human quest to understand brain functions. The study is published in the Proceedings of ...

Dec 4, 2025 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Essential tremor movement disorder linked to loss of Purkinje brain cells

Essential tremor (ET) is a common movement disorder affecting about 2% of the American population, and more than 20% of those over 90 years old. Despite its prevalence and decades of study, researchers don't know the precise ...

Dec 5, 2025 in Neuroscience
Tech Xplore / Digital twin system cuts idle device power use and reduces energy waste

Adopting digital twin technology to manage the power consumption of idle devices could save organizations thousands of pounds a year and help reduce their carbon footprint, new research suggests.

Dec 5, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Softbank's Son says super AI could make humans like fish, win Nobel Prize

SoftBank CEO and AI investor Masayoshi Son said Friday that advanced artificial intelligence could surpass humans to the extent that "we become fish" and could even win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Dec 5, 2025 in Machine learning & AI
Phys.org / A new jaguar spotted in Arizona points to progress in the endangered species' recovery

The spots gave it away. Just like a human fingerprint, the rosette pattern on each jaguar is unique so researchers knew they had a new animal on their hands after reviewing images captured by a remote camera in southern Arizona.

Dec 5, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / When holiday leftovers linger, reset your eating habits for a new year

A new year offers new beginnings and an opportunity to reset your eating habits after the holidays. Andrea Delgado, a Mayo Clinic dietitian, says it's best to eliminate what you don't need, including party food leftovers.

Dec 5, 2025 in Health
Medical Xpress / Study highlights underrecognized link between kidney disease and cognitive decline

A new study published in the American Journal of Physiology—Heart and Circulatory Physiology reveals that chronic kidney disease (CKD) accelerates cognitive decline through interconnected damage to the heart and brain—and ...

Phys.org / Simulations reveal how black holes generate intense light from infalling matter

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a black hole, they glow with fierce intensity across the light spectrum. Now, a team of computational ...

Dec 3, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Worried after sunscreen recalls? Here's how to choose a safe one

Most of us know sunscreen is a key way to protect areas of our skin not easily covered by clothes from excessive ultraviolet (UV) radiation.

Dec 5, 2025 in Health
Phys.org / From static papers to living models: Turning limb development research into interactive science

The choreographed movements that cells perform to form complex biological shapes, like our hands, have fascinated scientists for centuries. Now, researchers at EMBL Barcelona have launched LimbNET, an open-access online platform ...

Dec 4, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Single dose RSV vaccine protection found to wane over 18 months

Research led by the Veterans Affairs Portland Health Care System in Portland, Oregon, found that a single dose of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine reduced RSV infections and RSV-related emergency visits, hospitalizations, ...

Dec 1, 2025 in Gerontology & Geriatrics
Phys.org / A brown pelican 'feeding frenzy' is an encouraging sign for the often-struggling large seabirds

On a jagged coastline in Central California, brown pelicans gather on rock promontories, packed in like edgy commuters as they take flight to feed on a vast school of fish just offshore. The water churns in whitecaps as the ...

Dec 5, 2025 in Biology