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Medical Xpress / FDA weighs allowing Zyn pouches to be marketed as lower-risk nicotine option
Flavored nicotine pouches called Zyn could soon be legally advertised as a lower-risk option for adults who smoke, as federal regulators take a closer look at the popular product.
Tech Xplore / Is an under-16 social media ban the right course?
Dr. Victoria Nash, associate professor and senior policy fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, researches the governance challenges of digital technologies, with a particular focus on online safety, content moderation ...
Phys.org / Icy storm threatens Americans with power outages, extreme cold
Americans stripped supermarket shelves Friday ahead of potentially "catastrophic" winter weather that threatened at least 160 million people across the country with transportation chaos, blackouts and life-threatening cold.
Phys.org / Webb finds young sun-like star forging common crystals and flinging them into its outer disk
Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline silicates, since crystals require intense heat to form and these "dirty snowballs" spend most of their ...
Medical Xpress / Omitting Medicare data skews hospital readmission penalties, study shows
For more than a decade, hospitals have worked to help older adults avoid repeated inpatient stays, incentivized by a federal program that cuts Medicare reimbursements if hospitals have higher-than-expected rates of readmissions ...
Medical Xpress / Beyond the fear: Scientists test the health impacts of 5G
From street-level measurements to long-term health studies, researchers are building a clearer picture of the impact of everyday exposure to 5G signals on human health.
Phys.org / New insight into light-matter thermalization could advance neutral-atom quantum computing
Light and matter can remain at separate temperatures even while interacting with each other for long periods, according to new research that could help scale up an emerging quantum computing approach in which photons and ...
Phys.org / EAST achieves new plasma confinement regime using small 3D magnetic perturbations
A research group has achieved a new plasma confinement regime using small 3D magnetic perturbations that simultaneously suppress edge instabilities and enhance core plasma confinement in the Experimental Advanced Superconducting ...
Phys.org / Pig vaccine candidate outperforms leading available treatment in new trials
A vaccine developed to tackle Streptococcus suis, an economically damaging disease endemic in the global pig population, has outperformed a leading commercially available vaccine in a challenge trial. The trial showed the ...
Tech Xplore / Software engineering: How hybrid delivery systems adapt to real-world challenges
New research into project management in software engineering shows that the most successful systems are not the ones that follow a fixed blueprint from the start, but those that evolve in response to real challenges as projects ...
Phys.org / Nature-inspired 'POMbranes' could transform water recycling in textile and pharma industries
Scientists have collaborated to develop a new class of highly precise filtration membranes. The research, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, could significantly reduce energy consumption and enable ...
Phys.org / Dredging sand and silt has consequences for the North Sea
Through sand extraction and the disposal of dredged harbor silt, about 200 million tons of sediment are relocated every year in the coastal waters of the North Sea. The Wadden Sea is particularly strongly affected. This is ...
