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Medical Xpress / Why stress can make your hair fall out: A two-part reaction

It's well known that stress can trigger hair loss. A new paper explores how this happens and how our response to stress can have long-term consequences for our scalps, research that may eventually yield insights into autoimmune ...

Dec 3, 2025 in Medical research
Phys.org / Fish freshness easily monitored with a new sensor

To see if a fish is fresh, people recommend looking at its eyes and gills or giving it a sniff. But a more accurate check for food quality and safety is to look for compounds that form when decomposition starts.

Dec 3, 2025 in Chemistry
Phys.org / Success in measuring nano water droplets: Real-time images could advance hydrogen and battery research

In hydrogen production catalysts, water droplets must detach easily from the surface to prevent blockage by bubbles, allowing for faster hydrogen generation. In semiconductor manufacturing, the quality of the process is determined ...

Dec 3, 2025 in Nanotechnology
Tech Xplore / Electric vehicle high-nickel batteries: Fundamental cause of performance degradation identified

High-nickel batteries, which are high-energy lithium-ion batteries primarily used in electric vehicles, offer high energy density but suffer from rapid performance degradation. A research team from KAIST has, for the first ...

Dec 3, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Medical Xpress / Noninvasive imaging could replace finger pricks for people with diabetes

A noninvasive method for measuring blood glucose levels, developed at MIT, could save diabetes patients from having to prick their fingers several times a day.

Dec 3, 2025 in Diabetes
Phys.org / New palladium-gold alloy catalyst boosts methane-to-ethylene conversion with solar power

Researchers just hit two benefits with one catalyst. They converted methane (CH4), a potent greenhouse gas, into ethylene (C2H4), a highly demanded raw material in industrial sectors, using sunlight and a newly designed palladium–gold ...

Dec 2, 2025 in Chemistry
Phys.org / Chemists synthesize a fungal compound that holds promise for treating brain cancer

For the first time, MIT chemists have synthesized a fungal compound known as verticillin A, which was discovered more than 50 years ago and has shown potential as an anticancer agent.

Dec 3, 2025 in Chemistry
Medical Xpress / Evidence lacking for medical cannabis in most conditions, researchers find

Medical cannabis lacks adequate scientific backing for most of the conditions it is commonly used to treat, including chronic pain, anxiety and insomnia, according to a comprehensive review led by UCLA Health.

Phys.org / Water-resistant and recyclable redox-active MOFs enable stable energy storage in acidic solutions

Redox-active metal-organic frameworks (RAMOFs) are highly porous materials made of metals and organic molecules linked together by coordination bonds, and they contain redox-active sites that can store electrons (protons). ...

Dec 3, 2025 in Nanotechnology
Phys.org / Nursery web spider uses legs to 'sniff out' its partners

Male nursery web spiders (Pisaura mirabilis) use the sense of smell in their legs to find mates. Researchers at the University of Greifswald used an electron microscope to discover "olfactory hairs" on the legs of adult males. ...

Dec 3, 2025 in Biology
Phys.org / Humans first entered Australia 60,000 years ago via two routes, DNA analysis suggests

Debate has long surrounded when humans first traveled into Sahul, the ancient landmass that is now Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania. Now, a study published in Science Advances, lends credence to the theory that the first ...

Dec 1, 2025 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / A new tunable cell-sorting device with potential biomedical applications

Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) hydrogel undergoes significant but precise changes in size between 20°C and 40°C, making it an excellent candidate for use in variable-size deterministic lateral displacement (DLD) array ...

Dec 3, 2025 in Biology