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Phys.org / Thailand uses contraceptive vaccine to limit wild elephant births
Thailand has given a contraceptive vaccine to wild elephants for the first time in an effort to control their ballooning population, a conservation official said on Wednesday.
Phys.org / Trust in Ph.D. advisor can predict a good grad school experience
The advisor-advisee relationship is central to most doctoral education models. Yet not all students trust their advisors. Danfei Hu, Jonathan E. Cook and colleagues sought to examine the importance of this relationship to ...
Phys.org / AI model accelerates defect-based material design
Across the physical world, many intricate structures form via symmetry breaking. When a system with inherent symmetry transitions into an ordered state, it can form stable imperfections known as topological defects. Such ...
Medical Xpress / Combined patient and clinician nudges increased flu vaccination rates by 28%
Patients were 28% more likely to get a flu shot when they got a text message reminder and their primary care provider already had an order for the shot waiting, new research from the Perelman School of Medicine showed. The ...
Phys.org / Scientists observe a 300-million-year-old brain rhythm in several animal species
Sleep is a universal biological state that allows all animals, from mammals to amphibians, fish and even insects, to restore their energy and consolidate knowledge that can contribute to their survival. Neuroscientists and ...
Medical Xpress / Q&A: Can AI understand the human brain better than humans?
More than 7 million people aged 65 and older suffer from Alzheimer's disease in the United States, according to a 2025 report from the Alzheimer's Association. More of the debilitating symptoms could be mitigated or better ...
Phys.org / Mighty microscopic fibers are the key to cell division and life itself
Every second, millions of cells in your body divide in two. In the space of an hour, they duplicate their DNA and grow a web of protein fibers around it called a spindle. The spindle extends its many fibers from the chromosomes ...
Medical Xpress / Team unveils simpler, faster way to make vaccines
UVA Health scientists have developed a promising new way to create vaccines that could be faster, cheaper, and easier to distribute than current options. The University of Virginia School of Medicine's Dr. Steven L. Zeichner ...
Medical Xpress / Deep-learning algorithms enhance mutation detection in cancer and RNA sequencing
Researchers from the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have developed two innovative deep-learning algorithms, ClairS-TO and Clair3-RNA, that significantly advance genetic mutation detection in cancer ...
Medical Xpress / Subcutaneous delivery of hyaluronidase may boost effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy
Monash University researchers, alongside key partner Halozyme Therapeutics, report findings in support of shifting the way anti-cancer immunotherapy is administered from intravenous administration to subcutaneous administration ...
Medical Xpress / Episodic and semantic memory retrievals involve the same areas of the brain, according to new work
A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in retrieving different types of information, according to researchers from the School of Psychology at the ...
Medical Xpress / New research shows cannabis is effective for acute migraine treatment
In a study, published in Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine demonstrate for the first time in a placebo-controlled clinical trial that cannabis ...
