All News
Tech Xplore / Empty North Sea oil fields could store enough green hydrogen to power the country for seven years
Every time Britain has a still, gray week in winter, something invisible happens behind our electrical outlets: Gas power plants fire up to keep the lights on. That gas is often imported, with prices set by volatile global ...
Phys.org / Long-term study reveals hidden threat of schistosomiasis in endangered chimpanzees
A 12-year study of rescued chimpanzees at the Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary (NICS) in Uganda has revealed persistent intestinal schistosomiasis infections, highlighting the need for long-term disease surveillance to ...
Medical Xpress / The brain has its own thermostat. A study shows epilepsy may interfere with it
Doctors have long known that changes in body temperature can affect seizure activity. Fever can trigger seizures in some young children, while in rare forms of epilepsy, bathing in hot water can bring on a seizure. Raised ...
Medical Xpress / Promising new weight loss and diabetes treatment helps burn fat while keeping muscle in preclinical study
Over the past five years, medications called GLP-1s have revolutionized the treatment of metabolic disorders like obesity, diabetes and fatty liver disease. Sold under the brand names Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound, ...
Medical Xpress / Blood test shows promise for detecting breast cancer recurrence
A research team at Kumamoto University has developed a blood-based approach that could help detect breast cancer recurrence by looking beyond conventional genetic mutations and examining how DNA is packaged inside cells. ...
Medical Xpress / New study uncovers TikTok mental health advice risks
TikTok's design makes it harder for young people to think critically about the mental health content they see, new University of Birmingham research suggests. With more than 550,000 children and young people in England waiting ...
Medical Xpress / Weight loss drugs may offer a new avenue for bipolar disorder research
Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RA), commonly used to treat diabetes and weight loss, may have additional mental health benefits, especially for people with bipolar disorder, new Griffith University research ...
Tech Xplore / Researchers demonstrate 'wireless' capability for quantum network
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and the State University of New York at Stony Brook (Stony Brook University) have successfully transmitted light particles containing quantum ...
Phys.org / Making the case for independent science
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's 16-year rule ended in the spring, when voters replaced him with Péter Magyar, who has pledged to undo Orbán-led initiatives that, in the eyes of critics, isolated and politicized science.
Phys.org / An AI job boom? Here's what the tedious, temporary work in data labeling is actually like
Amid all the talk about artificial intelligence (AI) both creating and destroying jobs, a troubling reality flies under the radar.
Phys.org / GenAI cannot accurately grade student essays in higher education, study finds
New research from Cardiff University and the University of Melbourne has investigated whether GenAI could mimic human marking when evaluating written student work. The results have been published in the journal Assessment ...
Tech Xplore / As the fuel crisis deepens, Pacific nations can save billions by switching to renewables: New report
A new report, Counting the cost of fossil fuels in the Pacific, released today by the UNSW Institute for Climate Risk & Response (ICRR), found Pacific nations spend between 10% and 25% of GDP on fossil fuel imports—more than ...
