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Medical Xpress / PTSD may accelerate brain aging in 9/11 responders

Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have found that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may be linked to accelerated brain aging among World Trade Center (WTC) responders involved in rescue and ...

Dec 8, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / Silver nanoparticles built on viral biotemplate kill more bacteria and slow resistance rise

Antibiotics are no longer able to treat infections as effectively as they once did because many pathogens have developed resistance to these drugs. This phenomenon, known as antimicrobial resistance (AMR), claims over a million ...

Dec 4, 2025 in Nanotechnology
Medical Xpress / AI tool shows promise in accurately diagnosing brain tumors without surgery

Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University have developed an automated machine learning (AutoML) model that can accurately differentiate between two common types of brain tumors using preoperative MRI scans, potentially improving ...

Dec 8, 2025 in Surgery
Phys.org / Hayli Gubbi's explosive first impression

On November 23, 2025, the Hayli Gubbi volcano in northern Ethiopia erupted in dramatic fashion. The shield volcano in the Danakil (or Afar) Depression began spewing ash and volcanic gases at around 11:30 a.m. local time (8:30 ...

Dec 8, 2025 in Earth
Phys.org / Tiny turbulent whirls keep the Arctic ocean flowing

In the coming decades, climate change is likely to lead to a loss of sea ice in and an influx of warmer water to the Arctic Ocean, affecting the ocean's vertical circulation. Brown and colleagues recently investigated the ...

Dec 8, 2025 in Earth
Tech Xplore / Concrete with a human touch: Can we make infrastructure that repairs itself?

As winter approaches, Canada's roads, bridges, sidewalks and buildings are facing a familiar problem: cracks caused by large temperature swings. These cracks weaken infrastructure and cost millions to repair every year.

Dec 8, 2025 in Engineering
Medical Xpress / How maternal distress affects neurological development in children

The first few years of a child's life are at a stage of great brain plasticity and neurodevelopment, and form the foundation for their future cognitive, social, and emotional skills. This period, extending from fetal stage ...

Dec 8, 2025 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / CAR T cell therapy shows promising Phase II trial results in multiple myeloma

The chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy anitocabtagene autoleucel (anito-cel) continued to show strong results in treating relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, according to new trial data from researchers at The ...

Medical Xpress / Results show long-lasting benefits of CAR T cell therapy for hard-to-treat lymphoma

New three-year follow-up results from the TRANSCEND FL trial show that patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma can achieve durable, multi-year remission with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, ...

Phys.org / A solid-state quantum processor based on nuclear spins

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, have the potential of outperforming classical systems on some tasks. Instead of storing information as bits, like classical computers, ...

Dec 4, 2025 in Physics
Medical Xpress / 'ULM-Lite' technology uses ultrasound to visualize microvessels in the brain

A research team from the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) has improved blood vessel observation technology using ultrasound. The team developed "ULM-Lite," which significantly boosts the efficiency ...

Dec 8, 2025 in Radiology & Imaging
Medical Xpress / Lowest suicide rate is in December, but some in media still promote holiday-suicide myth

During the year-end holiday season, the suicide rate declines, U.S. health statistics show. The month of December typically has the year's lowest average daily suicide rate. Yet each year at this time, some news publications ...