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Phys.org / War drama Pressure depicts D‑day's weather forecast—what we found when we recreated the challenge using modern systems
Meteorologist James Stagg gave what many regard as the most important weather forecast in history in June 1944. The fate of more than 150,000 Allied troops preparing to invade the Normandy beaches on D-Day and the future ...
Medical Xpress / Patient questionnaires may add a new layer to chronic lymphocytic leukemia prognosis
Patients' responses to questions routinely raised by oncologists may provide important clues about their chances of survival from chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), according to a new study published in the journal Therapeutic ...
Phys.org / Salt may have helped turn Earth into a frozen world 700 million years ago
Earth may have been pushed deeper into a global deep freeze by something surprisingly ordinary: salt. Around 700 million years ago, Earth entered periods of extreme glaciation known as Snowball Earth, when ice is thought ...
Tech Xplore / Robots protest rampant AI in Poland
Waving flags, "chanting" slogans and marching in circles, around 30 robots took to the streets of Warsaw on Monday to campaign for AI regulation in front of the Polish digital affairs ministry.
Medical Xpress / Trial: Prostate cancer fitness cuts treatment side effects
Findings from STAMINA, the largest trial of its kind, published in The Lancet Oncology, show that a purpose-designed lifestyle program offering structured exercise, dietary advice and behavioral support as part of routine ...
Medical Xpress / A big assumption has kept women out of health and fitness studies for years. What if it's wrong?
What if much of what we thought we knew about women's health and fitness was suddenly called into question?
Medical Xpress / Semaglutide linked to 20% fewer COPD flare-ups and nearly 40% fewer asthma attacks
The diabetes and weight-loss injection semaglutide can reduce asthma attacks by up to 40%, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The study was led by Chloe ...
Medical Xpress / Eating disorders found to be more common in teens from low socioeconomic backgrounds
Teenagers from households with lower incomes and lower levels of education are more likely to have an eating disorder, a new study co-led by UCL researchers finds. The study, published in the International Journal of Eating ...
Phys.org / The DESI legacy imaging survey releases the largest 2D map of the universe
In 2012, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) was commissioned to measure the effect of dark energy, the mysterious force driving the expansion of the cosmos. Since then, the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys have obtained ...
Phys.org / The listening gap is real—how AI might help teachers bridge it
A Grade 4 teacher showed her class a video of children who walk miles barefoot to school. A hand shot up: "Why are you showing us AI slop? No way this is real."
Medical Xpress / Smoking falls in Austria as vaping rises from zero to 17.2%
Three large studies together show that although the number of people who smoke is declining, people are taking up smoking at a younger age and vaping has increased, particularly among children and young people.
Phys.org / Self-processing brain systems show both conservation and reorganization across primates
New in JNeurosci, Ning Liu, from the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, explored whether brain structures for self-processing are conserved across primates, including humans, chimpanzees and macaques.
