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Phys.org / 'Baby boom' of Bonelli's eagles during COVID lockdown unmasks impact of human activity

Thanks to more than three decades of monitoring, researchers at the University of Granada reveal how human absence during the pandemic impacted the reproduction of a threatened species: the Bonelli's eagle

Dec 1, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Intimate partner violence injury patterns linked with suicidal behavior

Victims of intimate partner violence with suicidal behavior have characteristic injury patterns on medical imaging, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). ...

Dec 2, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Childhood trauma may lead to more difficult births

Women who have been exposed to multiple traumatic experiences during childhood have more difficult births than others. They are much more likely to need emergency cesarean sections, suffer major hemorrhages or pre-eclampsia, ...

Dec 1, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / New study overturns assumptions about AFib treatment in sleep apnea patients

Obstructive sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation (AFib) are two conditions that share a potentially deadly link. Having one increases the odds of developing the other, and together, the breathing difficulties of sleep apnea ...

Dec 2, 2025 in Cardiology
Phys.org / The growing exotic pet trade drives illegal sales online and a push for tighter rules

A growing exotic pet trade has conservationists calling for stronger regulations to protect the reptiles, birds and other animals in the wild that are increasingly showing up for sale on internet marketplaces and becoming ...

Dec 2, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / A molecule opens a breach in HIV, providing access to its reservoirs

An international team led by two Université de Montréal researchers has unveiled how a molecule capable of opening the "shell" of HIV improves the elimination of infected cells.

Dec 1, 2025 in HIV & AIDS
Phys.org / Humans and artificial neural networks exhibit some similar patterns during learning

Past psychology and behavioral science studies have identified various ways in which people's acquisition of new knowledge can be disrupted. One of these, known as interference, occurs when humans are learning new information ...

Nov 29, 2025 in Physics
Medical Xpress / Medical humanities reveal overlooked barriers to health care equity in Washington, DC

A new study analyzing dozens of published papers over five decades focusing on health care disparities in Washington, DC, found that those that employed medical humanities approaches identified crucial barriers and opportunities ...

Dec 2, 2025 in Health
Phys.org / Sugar-coated sensor sniffs out look-alike molecules in the air

Scientists have designed a new type of gas sensor that can tell apart "mirror image" versions of the same smell molecule, even at very low concentrations. By coating carbon nanotubes with custom-built sugar-based receptors, ...

Dec 1, 2025 in Chemistry
Phys.org / Archaeologists discover solitary grave from ancient Kingdom of Kerma in remote Bayuda Desert

Dr. Monika Badura and her colleagues have published a study analyzing an isolated burial found in the Bayuda Desert in the journal Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. The discovery, made at site BP937 in Sudan, has ...

Nov 28, 2025 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Funding agencies can end profit-first science publishing

Funding organizations can fix the science publishing system—which currently puts profit first and science second—according to research published on the arXiv preprint server.

Dec 1, 2025 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / After nearly 100 years, scientists may have detected dark matter

In the early 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed galaxies in space moving faster than their mass should allow, prompting him to infer the presence of some invisible scaffolding—dark matter—holding the galaxies ...

Nov 25, 2025 in Astronomy & Space