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Medical Xpress / What a rat's ultrasonic call can tell us about food-related pleasure
Understanding how the brain processes rewarding experiences could help researchers better understand behaviors such as overeating, as well as conditions such as anhedonia—the inability to experience pleasure, a common symptom ...
Medical Xpress / Virtual reality can help ease anxiety, claustrophobia during cardiac imaging
Patients who experience anxiety or claustrophobia can have difficulty completing important cardiac imaging, including positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) scans.
Phys.org / Why doesn't Venus have a moon? A new study may have the answer
Venus is one of the solar system's most unusual planets. It may sometimes be called "Earth's twin" because of its similar size and density, but it rotates on its axis in the opposite direction of most planets, has surface ...
Phys.org / A vital native bee highway can start in your own backyard
When it comes to bees, most of us can identify the ubiquitous honey bee (Apis mellifera) and that's about it.
Medical Xpress / Can removing fallopian tubes really reduce the risk of ovarian cancer?
Ovarian cancer has a particularly poor survival rate. Only one in two women will live five years beyond their diagnosis. There is no effective screening test, and symptoms can be hard to spot. This means ovarian cancer is ...
Medical Xpress / UK program linked to more equal access to drug that prevents cerebral palsy in premature babies
Researchers analyzed NHS England maternity and neonatal data from 2014 to 2024 to investigate whether sociodemographic differences existed in the use of antenatal magnesium sulfate. The treatment is recommended for women ...
Phys.org / Pair of white dwarfs locked in 6-minute orbit might one day be observed by gravitational waves
Current gravitational-wave observatories aren't sensitive enough to capture the gravitational waves of binary stars. They can only see the gravitational chirps of black holes just as they are merging. But that will change ...
Phys.org / How bird movements are helping researchers track a global virus
While the highly virulent avian influenza strain has only recently been discovered on Australian shores, researchers at Deakin University have been working behind the scenes for years, anticipating what an outbreak might ...
Phys.org / Changing the antibiotic playbook to catch an ESKAPE artist
Nearly a century ago, a single colony of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) helped launch the antibiotic age. In 1928, Alexander Fleming returned to his London lab to find that a stray mold had wiped out the Staphylococcus ...
Tech Xplore / AI digital twins struggle to predict human behavior, creating 'funhouse mirror' distortions
While many fear artificial intelligence will replace humans, using AI to take over some human roles has benefits. Companies can use the technology to conduct surveys and polls, while behavioral scientists can run experiments ...
Phys.org / How beavers can help create fire breaks as part of a drought preparation plan
Most of the countryside around the Holnicote estate in Somerset has been dry and dusty for most of the summer. But one corner remains conspicuously green.
Medical Xpress / Children with cancer are being saved, but are we breaking them in the process?
Survival rates for childhood cancer now exceed 80%—but this also means more children are living with the long-term emotional and psychosocial impacts of cancer.
