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Medical Xpress / Antisocial behavior in young people linked to changes throughout the brain
Conduct problems—including persistent rule-breaking, aggression, irritability and difficulty following school rules—are associated with small but widespread differences in brain structure, according to a major international ...
Medical Xpress / Study finds variety, intensity of exercise lower odds of depressive symptoms
Engaging in a variety of physical activities—especially those of higher intensity—may be linked to lower odds of experiencing depressive symptoms, according to new research published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.
Medical Xpress / Everyday chemical exposures linked to preterm birth and lower birthweight
In one of the largest studies of chemical exposures during pregnancy to date, new research led by the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Stanford University School of Medicine and Woods Institute for the Environment ...
Tech Xplore / Combining lessons from ants and birds to improve AI
Combining ideas inspired by ant colonies and flocks of birds may hold the key to unlocking more effective artificial intelligence, according to a researcher at Missouri S&T. "With the way AI algorithms are currently structured, ...
Medical Xpress / Caregivers of children hospitalized for cancer, blood disorders at risk for food insecurity, researchers find
Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine found caregivers of children hospitalized for cancer and blood disorders may experience food insecurity during their child's stay, even if they don't face that issue ...
Medical Xpress / Newborn neurons routinely break then repair DNA during brain cortex formation, study reveals
Newborn nerve cells must squeeze through crowded, narrow spaces—through dense tissue, past other cells, and between fibers—to reach the areas where they form neural circuits in the brain cortex. In a study published in Nature, ...
Phys.org / Nuclear clocks tick for the first time
Two independent research teams have achieved a longstanding goal in physics: building a working nuclear clock. The devices, developed by Beichen Huang and colleagues at Tsinghua University and by Luca Toscani De Col and colleagues ...
Medical Xpress / 1940s-era drug helps uncover kidney pathway that may improve disease treatment
Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a previously unrecognized way the kidneys regulate water balance—an advance that could lead to improved treatments for polycystic kidney disease (PKD) and other disorders. The study, ...
Phys.org / Why one famous predator shrank two ways: Fossils reveal distinct growth strategies in early Permian Dimetrodon
The sail-backed predator Dimetrodon is one of the most iconic animals of the early Permian—long before dinosaurs dominated Earth. Most known species of this early relative of mammals reached large body sizes, sometimes up ...
Phys.org / A new explanation for the mystery death of Botticelli's Birth of Venus model, Simonetta Vespucci
A paper on new research into the cause of death of Simonetta Vespucci, model for the world-renowned Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli, has been published by researchers at Queen Mary University of London, Universita Campus ...
Phys.org / One of the world's most important plate boundaries is older than previously thought
A chain of remote islands and underwater volcanoes between Alaska and Kamchatka has revealed a much older chapter in Earth's tectonic history than previously known. Along the Aleutian Arc, the Pacific Plate dives beneath ...
Phys.org / Tropical Cyclone Arthur weakens to a low pressure area along the upper Texas coast
Tropical Storm Arthur was downgraded to a low pressure area along the upper Texas coast Wednesday night but forecasters expected its remnants to bring life-threatening flooding and days of heavy rains to parts of the southeastern ...
