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Medical Xpress / Workout habits may protect against inherited heart problems, findings suggest

Folks who regularly exercise can lower their risk of heart attack and heart failure linked to a genetic heart condition, a new study says. People with higher levels of moderate to vigorous physical activity had lower rates ...

Jun 1, 2026
Medical Xpress / Natural birth pressure is harming new mothers' mental health

Pressure on women from antenatal classes, social media and health care professionals to have a natural birth is causing lasting psychological harm when it does not go to plan, new research shows. The University of Reading ...

Jun 1, 2026
Medical Xpress / Patients find help with therapy donkeys at psychiatric hospital near Paris

Therapy donkeys are helping patients with mental health conditions recover in a psychiatric hospital unit outside Paris that's unique to France.

Jun 1, 2026
Phys.org / Bacteria uncover distinct strategy to import rare sugar polymers, crystal structures show

Even though sugars are often framed as simple sources of energy, they also serve as structurally complex and functionally diverse molecules that mediate interactions between organisms. Among these, β-1,2-glucans, which are ...

May 31, 2026
Phys.org / Bare supercontinent may have tipped ancient Earth into 'Snowball' phase

About a billion years ago, Earth started to come into its own. It was past the awkwardness of its younger years full of growing pains and turmoil: comet strikes and slimy water, including the Great Oxidation Event that flipped ...

May 28, 2026
Phys.org / The generation of massive Schrödinger cat states using ultracold atoms

Quantum mechanics is a physics framework that describes how matter and energy behave at an extremely small scale, specifically at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles. An effect predicted by the laws of quantum mechanics ...

May 28, 2026
Phys.org / New study has shone a new light on searching for habitable worlds

When astronomers discovered the first planet outside our solar system, it was orbiting a pulsar, one of the most extreme, radiation-blasted environments imaginable. Not exactly the kind of place you'd expect to find a planet, ...

Jun 1, 2026
Phys.org / Study highlights key welfare needs for seal pups in rehabilitation

A new study examining harbor and gray seal pups undergoing rehabilitation in the U.K. has identified important steps that could improve animal welfare during their recovery. Researchers from the University of Chester and ...

Jun 1, 2026
Phys.org / How bean plants call on wasps for help when hungry caterpillars attack

Some plants are not the sitting ducks they appear to be when they come under attack. If a hungry caterpillar starts to chomp on the succulent leaves of a common bean plant, a highly sophisticated defense system kicks into ...

May 28, 2026
Phys.org / Longest-period young transiting exoplanets discovered

It's 2234, you're on your annual class field trip touring exoplanets, and your teacher informs everyone they can pick one more exoplanetary system to explore before heading back to Earth. You and your classmates are exhausted ...

Jun 1, 2026
Medical Xpress / ChatGPT is getting remarkably good at diagnosing health problems, but doctors are still better at treatment options

A father is worried about his toddler, who has been running a fever for two days and pulling at one ear. A 65-year-old woman has been getting winded on her morning walks and feeling more fatigued than usual. Both reach for ...

Jun 1, 2026
Phys.org / Why many fungicide-treated soybean seeds may boost harvests but not farm profits

Many soybean farmers use seeds treated with fungicides to ward off disease, but the profits from these increased yields might not offset the cost of the treatment in most cases, according to a study published in Scientific ...

May 31, 2026