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Phys.org / Extra school roles can boost teachers' job satisfaction when balanced within existing hours, easing teacher shortages

Teacher retention remains a significant concern in Australia, with stress, burnout, and job dissatisfaction being major contributors to educators leaving the profession.

Feb 17, 2026 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / AI model flags insulin resistance as a risk factor for 12 cancers

Insulin resistance—when the body doesn't properly respond to insulin, a hormone that helps control blood glucose levels—is one of the fundamental causes of diabetes. In addition to diabetes, it is widely known that insulin ...

Feb 16, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / How your posture may be fueling neck pain and headaches

If you spend hours a day looking at a computer, tablet or phone, you're not alone. But that daily habit may be quietly contributing to neck pain, headaches and even dizziness—it is a pattern neurologists are seeing more ...

Medical Xpress / Combining GLP-1 drugs with hormones may lower uterine cancer risk

Adding GLP-1 medications like Ozempic to progestin therapy could cut the risk of developing endometrial cancer. A retrospective study published in the journal JAMA Network Open found that women using this combination had ...

Feb 14, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Cancer virus imaging helps uncover potential therapeutic targets

New research from the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry and Masonic Cancer Center is providing important new insights into the structure of a human virus that causes blood cancer. In their study published in Nature ...

Feb 16, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / Philly's snowpack reaches a 65-year milestone, and here's when it finally may disappear

You may not have noticed, but that endless snowpack has developed a slow leak—in this case, historically slow. Its endurance continues to climb the charts among the snowpacks of yesteryear—and in at least one way may ...

Feb 16, 2026 in Earth
Phys.org / Play reduces stress and lifts well-being—and adults benefit as much as children do

Somewhere along the way to adulthood, time to play fades away. We tend to trade silliness and imagination for seriousness and busyness.

Feb 17, 2026 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Why you hardly notice your blind spot: New tests pit three theories of consciousness

Although humans' visual perception of the world appears complete, our eyes contain a visual blind spot where the optic nerve connects to the retina. Scientists are still uncertain whether the brain fully compensates for the ...

Feb 13, 2026 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Why are more under-50s getting colorectal cancer? 'We don't know'

The death of US actor James Van Der Beek was just the latest reminder that colorectal cancer has been surging among people under 50 in recent years—and no one knows why.

Feb 17, 2026 in Gastroenterology
Phys.org / Microscopic plankton reveal tropicalization of the Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is rapidly changing under ongoing climate change. In the eastern basin, tropicalization is already well documented and driven by a combination of strong warming and the influx of tropical species through ...

Feb 15, 2026 in Earth
Medical Xpress / Q&A: Why are a child's first 1,000 days so critical for brain building?

Year after year, government records show late summer is when most babies are born, with August as the most common birth month. That means—right now—tens of thousands of future parents are planning nursery colors, work ...

Feb 17, 2026 in Pediatrics
Medical Xpress / Review suggests inhaled microplastics can inflame lungs and damage tissue

Breathing in microplastics can cause inflammation and damage to the lungs, potentially increasing the risk of respiratory diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pulmonary fibrosis and lung ...

Feb 17, 2026 in Health