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Medical Xpress / Strength training may be the key to healthy aging
Healthy aging is about staying independent, maintaining mobility and continuing to enjoy everyday activities as you get older. For many people, what matters most is being able to get out of a chair without help, carry shopping ...
Phys.org / Simultaneously decoding the transcriptome, epigenome and 3D genome within a single cell
The origin of many diseases begins at the cellular level and involves multiple molecular interactions. However, previous methods have struggled to accurately observe changes in individual cells. Analyzing average values across ...
Phys.org / Many wild bee species find home on a university campus
170 species of wild bees live on the Hubland Campus of Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU). This is the result of a study carried out by the Chair of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology at the JMU Biocentre from ...
Medical Xpress / A potential broad coronavirus drug target: Blocking tRNA-modifying enzymes slows viral proteins
Coronaviruses not only use the machinery of the human cells they infect: they modify them to achieve optimal conditions to produce viral proteins and thus spread more quickly. This is the main conclusion of a study by Pompeu ...
Phys.org / What's inside neutron stars? New model could sharpen gravitational-wave 'tide' clues
Neutron stars harbor some of the most extreme environments in the universe: their densities soar to several times those of atomic nuclei, and they possess some of the strongest gravitational fields of any known objects, surpassed ...
Medical Xpress / A closer look at the mathematical abilities of autistic people
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by differences in how people learn, communicate and interact with others, as well as restrictive or repetitive behaviors. Many past psychology ...
Medical Xpress / AI can predict risk of serious heart disease from mammograms
The risk of serious or fatal heart disease can be predicted with artificial intelligence (AI) analysis of mammograms, according to research published in the European Heart Journal. The study shows that AI can be used to assess ...
Medical Xpress / Deciding for others can lower confidence in one's own judgments
From the moment we wake to the time we hit the bed at night, we make numerous decisions, some big but mostly small. Although decision-making is a fundamental part of human life, researchers have found that the level of difficulty ...
Phys.org / Why the Doomsday Clock has outlived its usefulness
The Doomsday Clock—a symbolic device to signal an array of existential threats to the world since 1947—was recently moved to 85 seconds before midnight, the closest it has ever been to midnight. And that was before all-out ...
Medical Xpress / That cozy candle? It's also polluting the air you're breathing
During the winter months, when days are short and cold and nights are long and dark, creating a warm and cozy indoor atmosphere can feel especially important.
Phys.org / Study finds biodiversity credits could boost rewilding, but fall far short
Payments that enable landowners to rewild ecologically degraded land—in the form of biodiversity credits bought by investors wishing to offset their impact on nature—could be an effective component of the emerging market ...
Tech Xplore / Apple launches $599 MacBook Neo, threatening Windows PC market
Apple Inc. rolled out the $599 MacBook Neo in its biggest push yet into low-end laptops, aiming to challenge Windows PCs and Chromebooks for budget-minded shoppers.
