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Phys.org / 1% of offshore wind investments could restore millions of hectares of marine life
Offshore wind farms not only deliver clean energy but can also play a vital role in restoring vulnerable ecosystems both above and below the waterline. This includes seabed habitats, coral reefs, seagrass meadows and coastal ...
Tech Xplore / Houses made from rice: Kyrgyzstan's eco-friendly revolution
It may look like an ordinary building site but Akmatbek Uraimov's new house in Kyrgyzstan is being built with blocks of rice.
Phys.org / Was Mars doomed to be a desert? Study proposes new explanation
One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were carved by rivers, so it was once warm enough for liquid water. How—and why—did it become a barren ...
Phys.org / Humans tend to repeat familiar actions when making sequential decisions, even when better options exist
Behavioral scientists have been trying to uncover the patterns that humans follow when making decisions for decades. The insights gathered as part of their studies can help shape public policies and interventions aimed at ...
Tech Xplore / Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotland's coast is a breakthrough for tidal energy
Submerged in about 40 meters (44 yards) of water off Scotland's coast, a turbine has been spinning for more than six years to harness the power of ocean tides for electricity—a durability mark that demonstrates the technology's ...
Phys.org / Reviving search for extraterrestrial intelligence with high-energy astronomy
What new methods can be developed in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)? This is what a recent white paper submitted to the 2025 NASA Decadal Astrobiology Research and Exploration Strategy (DARES) Request ...
Medical Xpress / New blood biomarker predicts progression of Alzheimer's disease even in its earliest stages
A team of researchers at the Sant Pau Research Institute (IR Sant Pau) has demonstrated that the plasma biomarker p-tau217, obtained through a simple blood test, can predict the clinical progression of Alzheimer's disease ...
Medical Xpress / Mimicking the benefits of exercise with a single molecule
Capital Medical University, in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, reports that betaine, a molecule produced in the kidney and enhanced through sustained exercise, operates as a potent inhibitor of inflammatory ...
Phys.org / Satellite observations provide insight into post-wildfire forest recovery
Using satellite observations to evaluate forest recovery following a wildfire could be an innovative, cost-efficient way to assess the effectiveness of land management practices, according to research published earlier this ...
Medical Xpress / 1 in 5 overweight adults could be reclassified as obese according to new framework
A cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis examined the distribution of people by obesity level using the European Association for the Study of Obesity's (EASO) new framework and determined the risk of death of those newly ...
Phys.org / Ancient Egyptian genome reveals North African roots and Fertile Crescent ancestry
Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual who lived around 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, the age of ...
Medical Xpress / CDC now recommends RSV vaccine for some adults 50+
Adults as young as 50 may now qualify for an RSV vaccine if they have certain health conditions, according to a quiet update from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
