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Tech Xplore / Meta's new tools allow parents to better supervise their kids' social media accounts. Will they work?
Tech giant Meta recently announced a set of new features to give parents greater oversight of how their children use Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Horizon.
Medical Xpress / ESTRO: Select breast cancer patients may be able to omit surgery following ablative radiation
A select group of patients with early-stage breast cancer were able to omit surgery with no tumor progression after three years, according to results of a Phase 2 trial of ablative radiation therapy and endocrine therapy ...
Medical Xpress / Expert explains the science, safety, and legal landscape around mifepristone used in abortions, miscarriage care
The U.S. Supreme Court has preserved access to mifepristone—the medication used in the majority of abortions in the United States and in some miscarriage care—for now. The action maintains current rules that allow certified ...
Medical Xpress / Smog exposure tied to nearly fourfold higher Lewy body dementia risk
Long-term exposure to smog might increase the risk of Lewy body dementia, the brain disease that CNN founder Ted Turner battled for several years before his recent death, a new study says.
Tech Xplore / AI system developed to help prevent airport collisions
Near misses like the one at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport inspired a group from the AirLab in Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute (RI) to create World2Rules, an AI system that learns interpretable ...
Medical Xpress / Brain implants allow us to move and talk. But they could also be hacked
The human brain is remarkably complex, with trillions of connections that control how you move, think and feel.
Phys.org / In Tierra del Fuego, a hunt for the rodent carrier of hantavirus
A scientific mission was set to kick off the search Monday for rodents that may be hantavirus carriers after an outbreak on a cruise ship departed this region at the southern tip of Argentina on April 1.
Medical Xpress / Why has PCOS been given a new name?
For more than two decades, I have studied a condition that shapes the lives of about 10–13% of women. This condition causes complex, wide-ranging symptoms such as irregular periods, excessive hair growth, weight gain, acne ...
Phys.org / Student well-being drops after move to high school, research reveals
The move from primary to secondary school is a major transition for many children, marked by new environments, new peers and increasing expectations. But while the jump signals growing up and greater independence, it also ...
Medical Xpress / How hibernation influences a visual brain area in squirrels
Understanding how hibernation affects neurons sheds light on how neurons adapt to changing states and can inform treatment strategies for conditions in which neurons are damaged or impaired. In a new JNeurosci paper, researchers ...
Phys.org / Fluorescent RNA sensor gets 10 times more sensitive for water safety
Water is largely tasteless to humans. But to the microbial world, it is anything but. Bacteria that live in contaminated environments have spent millions of years evolving exquisitely sensitive molecular detectors—proteins ...
Science X / After rapid weight loss, daily bacteria capsules may help curb regain and boost metabolism
Akkermansia muciniphila (MucT), a tiny beneficial bacterium that lives in the mucus layer of the gastrointestinal system, could hold the secret to keeping weight gain at bay after going on a low-calorie weight-loss diet. ...