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Medical Xpress / Nicotine use linked to mental health problems in adolescents, especially girls

Adolescents who use nicotine are more likely to report symptoms of anxiety, depression and other mental health problems than their peers who do not use nicotine. Girls appear to be particularly vulnerable, according to three ...

Jul 14, 2026
Medical Xpress / Immunotherapy shows long-term promise in aggressive lymphoma

A leading-edge immunotherapy may extend survival for patients with one of the most aggressive forms of blood cancer, according to newly published five-year results from a major clinical trial in the Blood Journal. The clinical ...

Jul 14, 2026
Medical Xpress / One in four adults has metabolic syndrome, and it may be aging their brains

An estimated 1 in 4 adults worldwide has metabolic syndrome. While metabolic syndrome is most often thought of as a warning sign that diabetes or cardiovascular disease may be on the horizon, my team's new study suggests ...

Jul 14, 2026
Medical Xpress / How the brain's chemical messengers control consciousness and sleep

Scientists at Newcastle University's Neural Circuits Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers at the Blue Brain Project (EPFL, Switzerland) and leading institutions in Spain, have published a study that advances understanding ...

Jul 13, 2026
Phys.org / RNA-only repair enzyme reveals how primordial life could have protected genomes

In most modern cells, DNA stores the genetic blueprint, and proteins replicate, repair and build from those blueprints. At the same time, proteins require instructions from DNA to be made in the first place.

Jul 13, 2026
Tech Xplore / Birdlike robot swims underwater, then flaps into flight without paddling

Loons, gulls, puffins and petrels are some of the 100 species of birds that can both fly and swim. These diving birds can plunge into water to swim after prey, and leap back into the air to fly away.

Jul 9, 2026
Tech Xplore / Large language models often prioritize Western moral values, overlooking other cultures

Large language artificial intelligence models, such as ChatGPT, often misjudge what people outside the West might value as a moral priority, according to our new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Jul 14, 2026
Medical Xpress / Dialing back stiffness may protect muscles in myotonic dystrophy

For decades, researchers studying myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) have focused on the disease's underlying genetic cause: a mutation that produces a toxic form of RNA, disrupting the normal processing of thousands of genetic ...

Jul 13, 2026
Phys.org / Study reveals how gas bubbles shaped Kīlauea's 2018 lava flow

The lava that buried entire neighborhoods during the 2018 Kīlauea eruption was composed of nearly 80% gas bubbles near its source. A recent study shows that those bubbles played a central role in controlling how fast and ...

Jul 13, 2026
Phys.org / Tiny magnetic 'flowers' could expand how researchers image spintronic materials under stronger fields

Materials with magnetic nanostructures have a wide range of potential applications. One area is so-called spintronics, with devices that encode information in magnetic domains. These magnetic bits can be written, read and ...

Jul 12, 2026
Phys.org / 3D-printable elastic polymer proves surprisingly strong and durable

EPFL researchers have discovered that a soft material originally optimized for 3D printing may solve a longstanding challenge in materials science: making 3D-printable elastomers both tough and durable.

Jul 13, 2026
Phys.org / Heat deaths are a public health crisis rooted in housing inequality

The heat waves of late May and June killed an estimated 2,700 people in England and Wales, according to a recent analysis—around 550 in May, when west London hit 35.1°C (95°F), and 2,200 in June, as East Anglia reached 37°C ...

Jul 14, 2026