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Medical Xpress / Testing AI logic in biomedical research

Manchester researchers have developed a systematic methodology to test whether AI can think logically in biomedical research, helping to ensure safer, more reliable applications in health care innovation.

Dec 23, 2025 in Health informatics
Phys.org / There are countless reasons families have only one child—and they won't grow up to be selfish or spoiled

Are you a parent to one child? Or are you considering having a child in the future, and wondering about what your family size should be?

Dec 23, 2025 in Other Sciences
Tech Xplore / Batteries lose charge when they 'breathe': Understanding deterioration is a step toward longer-lasting batteries

Researchers have identified a key reason why the batteries used to power everything from smartphones to electric vehicles deteriorate over time, a critical step toward building faster, more reliable and longer-lasting batteries.

Dec 18, 2025 in Engineering
Medical Xpress / How swearing makes you stronger

Letting out a swear word in a moment of frustration can feel good. Now, research suggests that it can be good for you, too: Swearing can boost people's physical performance by helping them overcome their inhibitions and push ...

Dec 18, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Any reduction in alcohol consumption helps reduce cancer risk: Support for 'Dry January'

Most people know that smoking causes cancer and that there's no "safe" number of cigarettes that are OK to smoke.

Dec 23, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Medicaid health plans step up outreach efforts ahead of GOP changes

Carmen Basu, bundled in a red jacket and woolly scarf, stood outside the headquarters of her local health plan one morning after picking up free groceries. She had brought her husband, teenage son, and 79-year-old mother-in-law ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Health
Medical Xpress / New study estimates NHS England spends 3% of its primary and secondary care budget on the health impacts of temperature

A new University of Oxford-led study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, is the first to link daily temperature data to health-care use and costs across primary and secondary care in England. Analysis of 4.37 million ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Health
Phys.org / Archaeologists use AI to create prehistoric video game

Archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Bergen have used AI and free digital tools to create a dynamic and educational video game about the Stone Age. According to the researchers, the new technology, ...

Dec 18, 2025 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Diversifying US Midwest farming for stability and resilience

Researchers find that diversifying crops and integrating livestock improves farm efficiencies and ecosystem services in the US Midwest. The work is published in PNAS Nexus.

Dec 23, 2025 in Biology
Phys.org / 8th-century glass reveals earliest history of Venetian glassmaking

When we think of Venetian glass, our minds leap to the blazing furnaces of Murano, to delicate filigree and the vivid colors of the Renaissance. This iconic and universally recognized image tells only part of the story. For ...

Dec 18, 2025 in Other Sciences
Tech Xplore / Waymos blocked roads and caused chaos during San Francisco power outage

Many of Waymo's self-driving cars blocked streets of San Francisco during a mass power outage Saturday and forced the company to temporarily suspend service, raising questions about the cars' ability to adapt to real-world ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Hi Tech & Innovation
Phys.org / Elegant solution for measuring ultrashort laser pulses discovered

Ultrashort laser pulses—that are shorter than a millionth of a millionth of a second—have transformed fundamental science, engineering and medicine. Despite this, their ultrashort duration has made them elusive and difficult ...

Dec 18, 2025 in Physics