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Phys.org / How Fourth of July celebrations and the national political mood may shape psychedelic experiences
Psychedelic drugs are known to make people highly sensitive to their surroundings. In other words, a user's mindset and immediate environment heavily shape the entire trippy experience. In a study published in the journal ...
Medical Xpress / New study provides first evidence of dopamine system injury in the brain of long COVID patients
A new brain imaging study led by researchers at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), published in eBioMedicine, provides the strongest evidence to date that long COVID is associated with injury to dopamine-releasing ...
Medical Xpress / Can Ozempic prevent cancer? A doctor explains why the headlines are easy to misread
In the weeks around the 2026 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, my phone kept buzzing with alerts about GLP-1 drugs and cancer. The headlines were everywhere—from NPR and The Washington Post to Substack ...
Medical Xpress / A conscious choice: Local and spinal anesthesia emerge as safer alternatives in spine surgery
General anesthesia, once the default choice in spine surgeries, is increasingly giving way to local and spinal anesthesia as the preferred option for eligible patients. Since 2024, surgeons at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) ...
Medical Xpress / Medical AI may look less biased on paper but not in practice, new study finds
Large language models (LLMs) are only as good as the data they learn from. If their training data contains social biases, the models may unintentionally repeat those biases in their responses. As their use increases with ...
Phys.org / JWST finds the most distant barred galaxy candidate in the early universe
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified what may be the most distant barred spiral galaxy ever discovered, dating to a time less than 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. The paper outlining its ...
Phys.org / Heat wave smashes records across central US
A record-breaking heat wave baked the central United States on Sunday, smashing temperature records from the northern Plains to the Rocky Mountain region.
Phys.org / Wealthier and more populated metropolitan areas respond more strongly to early drought news by saving water
As climate change increases the risk of severe droughts, water resources management is an urgent challenge. Drought develops slowly, which can make it difficult for the public to recognize an ongoing drought. Governments ...
Tech Xplore / Why power banks in hold luggage pose such a risk on holiday flights
Airline passengers are being warned not to pack power banks in their checked luggage ahead of the summer vacation travel period.
Phys.org / Computer-guided electricity rapidly transforms flat nanofilms into 3D shapes on demand
Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have developed a method to form dome-shaped bumps on nanofilms in water using a computer-guided electron beam. The bumps form within 10 seconds and can be flattened, reshaped or repositioned ...
Medical Xpress / Heat exposure during pregnancy and infancy may influence children's brain development
Exposure to high temperatures during pregnancy and early infancy is associated with slower growth of the thalamus later in childhood, according to a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a center ...
Medical Xpress / Can infants detect voices in noisy environments? New research says yes
In noisy environments, organisms differentiate sounds they want to detect from interfering noise to improve their perception of target sounds. This process is widely conserved across species, including birds, crocodiles, ...
