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Medical Xpress / Human-caused warming linked to childhood stunting across Africa
In 2022, about 149 million children younger than 5 worldwide suffered from childhood stunting. A critical marker of chronic undernutrition, stunting is more than a metric of physical height. It represents a lifelong constraint ...
Tech Xplore / Anthropic opens most powerful AI model to public with safeguards
Anthropic, maker of the Claude artificial intelligence (AI) models, made the most powerful version of its technology available to the general public on Tuesday while restricting its use in sensitive areas.
Medical Xpress / Shorter clinical trials of medication for alcohol use disorder can be as useful or more useful than longer trials
Randomized control trials that are shorter than 12 weeks show similar results to longer trials when assessing a new medication's effectiveness in helping someone with alcohol use disorder reduce or stop drinking. And in trials ...
Phys.org / How biodiversity loss could raise borrowing costs and deepen debt risks worldwide
Financial markets are blind to the economic costs of biodiversity loss, leaving several countries at risk of defaulting on debt, according to new research published in Nature. While environmental degradation is recognized ...
Medical Xpress / Could the World Cup cause the next pandemic? Scientists mapped the risks
Spread across 11 U.S. host cities, the 2026 World Cup is bringing together teams and fans from 48 countries. From travel logistics to accommodations for hundreds of thousands of visitors, organizers are addressing a host ...
Medical Xpress / Hard-to-detect prostate cancer may grow through cancer-stroma KRAS signaling
A research team at Kanazawa University, led by Professor Atsushi Mizokami, Associate Professor Koji Izumi and Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Taiki Kamishima (a fourth-year doctoral student at the Graduate School ...
Phys.org / Antibiotics drive resistance in waterways—even after they break down
Antibiotics continue to drive resistance in bacteria, even after they are broken down in wastewater treatment plants and discharged into rivers and seas, new research published on World Oceans Day has shown for the first ...
Medical Xpress / Four minutes of daily resistance training can quadruple fitness in older adults
Just 4 minutes of daily strengthening exercise dramatically increases key factors in quality of life for older adults, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State College of Medicine. Results published in PLOS ...
Phys.org / Open-source FLIM Playground could speed reproducible analysis of complex cell images
Modern fluorescence microscopy can generate images of living cells as stunning to look at as they are informative to study. For techniques like fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM), those images provide a window ...
Phys.org / The skills people still perform better than AI, according to workplace experts
Many workers fear machines will supplant them as adoption of artificial intelligence accelerates.
Phys.org / 'Cool Routes' finds cooler walking paths with hourly forecasts and street-level shade data
The Arizona sunshine hits like a blowtorch. The pavement radiates heat like a stove burner. To make hot-weather walking less of an ordeal, Arizona State University researchers have created a web-based app that finds the coolest, ...
Phys.org / Plants reveal hidden PFAS pollution that soils can miss, study finds
A new study has found that plants may reveal recent PFAS contamination linked to airborne deposition that can go undetected in soil analyses. Conducted in agricultural fields near the conflict zone in southern Israel, the ...
