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Medical Xpress / More than just being well: Teens and Gen Z are redefining what it means to be healthy

Health isn't what it used to be—namely the absence of being sick.

Dec 22, 2025 in Health
Medical Xpress / How to deal with worry this Christmas

Christmas can be hard. For some people, it increases loneliness, grief, hopelessness and family tension, and the festive season has a way of turning ordinary concerns into urgent ones. Not because something terrible is guaranteed ...

Dec 22, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / Atmospheric rivers explained: What to know about the weather phenomenon

Atmospheric rivers are massive plumes of moisture carried across the sky that can dump heavy rains or snow over land.

Dec 22, 2025 in Earth
Tech Xplore / At a Silicon Valley summit, robots fold laundry—and investors open their wallets

Robots from around the world converged on Silicon Valley to provide a glimpse of a potential future.

Dec 18, 2025 in Business
Phys.org / Gaia finds hints of planets in baby star systems

Ever wondered how planetary systems like our own solar system form? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope, we're getting a unique peek behind the cosmic curtain into these dusty environments.

Dec 18, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Tech Xplore / AI-driven assistant calculates best injection molding settings and explains decisions in multiple languages

Most of the plastic products we use are made through injection molding, a process in which molten plastic is injected into a mold to mass-produce identical items. However, even slight changes in conditions can lead to defects, ...

Dec 22, 2025 in Engineering
Medical Xpress / FDA approves Exdensur for severe asthma

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Exdensur (depemokimab-ulaa) as an add-on maintenance treatment for severe asthma with an eosinophilic phenotype in adult and pediatric patients aged 12 years and older.

Dec 22, 2025 in Inflammatory disorders
Phys.org / How healthy are Brazil nuts? New study elucidates trace elements in the seeds

Brazil nuts are an especially nutrient-rich source of food: They contain important minerals like calcium and magnesium, essential amino acids and unsaturated fatty acids. Brazil nuts are characterized by very high selenium ...

Dec 22, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Sex hormones reset our body clocks, research reveals

Disruptions to our circadian clocks—the internal molecular timekeepers "ticking" in nearly every cell of our body throughout the day—can lead to a wide range of health problems, from sleep disturbances to diabetes and ...

Dec 22, 2025 in Endocrinology & Metabolism
Phys.org / Rare earth elements: Of peptides and the origins of life

The group of rare earth elements (REEs) comprises a total of 17 elements, all of which possess similar chemical properties. In addition to the two lightest elements, scandium and yttrium, the group also includes lanthanum, ...

Dec 18, 2025 in Chemistry
Phys.org / Interpretable neural networks help reveal the nature of dark matter

A research team from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed an interpretable artificial intelligence (AI) framework named Convolutional Kolmogorov–Arnold Network (CKAN), ...

Dec 18, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Five new planets and the battle for their atmospheres

One of the primary goals of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to detect atmospheres around exoplanets, to try to suss out whether or not they could potentially support life. But, in order to do that, scientists have ...

Dec 22, 2025 in Astronomy & Space