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Medical Xpress / Is it better for your health to work standing up or sitting down?

For years, we've been told that "sitting is the new smoking." It's a catchy phrase that seems to sum up a very real problem, but it's also a huge oversimplification. If sitting were always the worst option, we could solve ...

Apr 22, 2026
Medical Xpress / Climate change is already claiming lives in Europe—and the risks are increasing

Europe is facing a sharp rise in heat-related deaths, deteriorating working conditions, growing food insecurity, and increased risks of climate-sensitive infectious diseases, according to a new report on climate change and ...

Apr 22, 2026
Tech Xplore / What Chinese characters can tell us about designing strong materials

From the geometric symmetry in Islamic tiles to the mechanical versatility of origami, cultural patterns have an extensive range of structures. Inspired by cultural geometries, researchers from the University of Edinburgh ...

Apr 21, 2026
Medical Xpress / Does the brain work like an LLM in predicting words? New study spells out a complicated answer

The appearance of predictive text in writing an email or text message has become, for better or worse, a regular feature of our lives, saving us time by seamlessly filling in a word before we can type it or frustrating us ...

Apr 21, 2026
Phys.org / Bacteria's 'two-way door' revealed: How antimicrobials cross cell membranes

Researchers at Durham have helped unlock a new understanding of how bacteria import antimicrobial peptides—the molecules that can kill or inhibit microbes. The research sheds new light on SbmA, a key transporter protein found ...

Apr 21, 2026
Phys.org / The Colorado River disappeared from the geological record for 5 million years: Scientists now know where it went

Geologists have solved the mystery of the disappearance from the geological record, millions of years ago, of one of North America's most important waterways: the Colorado River. A paper published in Science shows that the ...

Apr 17, 2026
Phys.org / Researchers have spent decades breeding better potatoes for chips, and their work isn't done

There's a surprising amount of science in a bag of potato chips. Researchers have spent decades developing potatoes for chip makers that can grow in all kinds of climates, avoid diseases and pests, sit in storage for months ...

Apr 22, 2026
Tech Xplore / This vibrating pillow makes nighttime emergencies impossible to sleep through

A smart pillow sleeve that vibrates to alert people who are deaf to fire and burglar alarms in the night has been created by scientists at Nottingham Trent University (NTU). Developed with members of the Deaf community, the ...

Apr 22, 2026
Tech Xplore / 'Seeing clearly even in the fog'—a next-generation infrared image sensor for autonomous driving

Infrared sensors that detect the short-wave infrared (SWIR) region can clearly recognize objects not only during the day and at night, but also in fog or smoke, making them a key component of future intelligent technologies ...

Apr 21, 2026
Phys.org / Better-fed calves are more motivated to play, pioneering study shows

New research has revealed dairy calves that are fed less complete tasks faster and remember more in pursuit of milk, but miss out on play. Calves that were given more food were more inclined to play. The study, led by the ...

Apr 21, 2026
Phys.org / In age of AI, art's real power no longer lives in image alone but in who chooses what survives

Every year on 21 April, World Creativity and Innovation Day invites us to celebrate human ingenuity. Traditionally, that meant celebrating creativity through art, science, and new ideas. Today, it also means asking a more ...

Apr 22, 2026
Phys.org / Engineers develop a new system to track material design processes

Discovering and characterizing new materials is important for unlocking advances in fields like clean energy, advanced manufacturing, and improved infrastructure. Researchers use machine learning and other computational tools ...

Apr 22, 2026