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Medical Xpress / Wildfire smoke risks are understudied, review paper warns
As wildfires increase in frequency and intensity across regions like the western United States, smoke exposure is becoming more widespread and prolonged. Yet current knowledge gaps make it harder to develop targeted interventions ...
Tech Xplore / IMF warns of 'inevitable' AI-powered threats to global financial system
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned on Thursday of the risks to global financial stability posed by cyberattacks powered by advanced artificial intelligence tools, calling for greater international cooperation on ...
Medical Xpress / WHO says now five confirmed cruise ship hantavirus cases
The World Health Organization said Thursday there were now five confirmed hantavirus cases from the Atlantic cruise ship outbreak, with three more suspected—and warned further cases were possible.
Phys.org / DESI-HVS1 is an old hypervelocity star ejected from the galactic center, observations suggest
Chinese astronomers report the discovery of DESI-HVS1, which may be an old metal-poor hypervelocity star of galactic center origin. The finding, based on the data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and ESA's ...
Phys.org / Planet 9 volunteers double known population of brown dwarfs
A new paper from NASA's Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project announces that volunteers have essentially doubled the number of known brown dwarfs, with over 3,000 new discoveries made over the past 10 years since the project ...
Medical Xpress / RAS(ON) inhibitor daraxonrasib shows promising results in advanced pancreatic cancer
The targeted RAS inhibitor daraxonrasib was found to be safe and showed signs of efficacy in patients with previously treated RAS-mutant metastatic pancreatic cancer, according to a Phase I/II first-in-human trial led by ...
Medical Xpress / How a deadly hantavirus outbreak unfolded on a cruise ship for weeks before it was identified
A deadly outbreak of the rare hantavirus unfolded over the course of weeks on a cruise ship that sailed from Argentina toward Antarctica and then across the Atlantic Ocean, stopping at or near remote islands on the way as ...
Medical Xpress / Gene duplication tied to juvenile glaucoma in 20 patients across 10 families
A major international study led by Flinders University has identified a genetic contributor to juvenile glaucoma. Published today in the journal JAMA Ophthalmology, the study marks another important step toward treating multiple ...
Medical Xpress / Why beta cells fail under pressure: Key stress pathway may shape diabetes progression
A hallmark of type 2 diabetes is the progressive loss of beta cell mass: cells in the pancreas that produce and release insulin. The endoplasmic reticulum stress response, a cellular pathway that maintains protein homeostasis, ...
Phys.org / Transcribing speech is never neutral—it shapes power and bias
Earlier this year I gave a talk about my research at Oxford's All Souls College, and worked with a chef to design an accompanying menu.
Medical Xpress / Combination therapy with stem cell-derived immune cells boosts anti-cancer response
Cancer immunotherapy is built on a simple but powerful idea: the immune system can recognize and destroy cancer cells if it is properly activated. In many patients, however, this response is too weak or too slow to be effective. ...
Phys.org / Subglacial CH₄ export from the Greenland Ice Sheet linked to a mid-Holocene warm period
In a new paper, an international team led by scientists from Charles University, Czechia, has brought evidence linking widespread release of methane (CH₄)—a strong greenhouse gas—from the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) to a warmer ...
