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Medical Xpress / Millions of US birth records uncover an autism risk surge tied to common drugs taken during pregnancy
A landmark study led by researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) and published in Molecular Psychiatry has identified a significant association between prenatal prescription of commonly utilized medications ...
Medical Xpress / Plug-and-play AI recognizes 18 cancer types from just a handful of slides
A research team led by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed a pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) pathology analysis system that can accurately recognize multiple types of cancer using ...
Tech Xplore / Tiny 'light-concentrating' particles boost terahertz technology, study shows
Scientists have found a way to boost terahertz technology using particles thousands of times smaller than a grain of sand. Research published in Scientific Reports by Loughborough University's Emergent Photonics Research ...
Phys.org / Mosquitoes reach Iceland for the first time as the Arctic heats up
In what is possibly another sign of climate change, mosquitoes have landed in Iceland for the first time. For many years, the island was the only Arctic country that could claim to be mosquito-free. But that all changed in ...
Phys.org / Rethinking augmented reality for children: Study finds key design gap
For decades, technology in schools meant desktop computers and basic digital instruction. Today, more immersive tools are beginning to reach children, changing how they interact with information and their surroundings. As ...
Medical Xpress / Pentagon drops flu vaccine requirement for US military
Flu shots will no longer be required for every U.S. service member.
Phys.org / Canada's parks may be protecting the wrong places as climate extremes reshape biodiversity
Climate change is making Canada's seasons more erratic, its weather more extreme and its ecosystems less predictable—and UBC Okanagan scientists have now produced the first national map of exactly where that unpredictability ...
Tech Xplore / What Chinese characters can tell us about designing strong materials
From the geometric symmetry in Islamic tiles to the mechanical versatility of origami, cultural patterns have an extensive range of structures. Inspired by cultural geometries, researchers from the University of Edinburgh ...
Tech Xplore / Perovskite solar cells reach 26.61% certified efficiency with cesium-doping strategy
Solar cells, devices that convert sunlight into electricity, are now widely used in many countries. While most existing solar cells are based on silicon, energy engineers have been working on other devices made of so-called ...
Medical Xpress / These unusual two-story homes are rewriting child survival in rural Africa in ways few expected
A major study involving Durham University shows that a radical rethink of rural housing design in sub-Saharan Africa can protect children from the three deadliest childhood diseases. The three-year trial in Tanzania found ...
Medical Xpress / Fixed or flexible? Study shows vision-related neurons can rapidly switch codes
For many years, a dominant view in neuroscience was that neurons in the inferotemporal (IT) cortex—a critical center in the brain for the recognition of objects—represent the world through fixed tuning functions. Doris Tsao ...
Phys.org / Better-fed calves are more motivated to play, pioneering study shows
New research has revealed dairy calves that are fed less complete tasks faster and remember more in pursuit of milk, but miss out on play. Calves that were given more food were more inclined to play. The study, led by the ...
