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Medical Xpress / Poor diet linked to heart disease, but Australia has seen improvements in the last 30 years
A poor diet remains a leading contributor to ischemic heart disease, according to an analysis from 204 countries over a 30-year period, published in Nature Medicine. The authors estimate that suboptimal diet associated with ...
Medical Xpress / Ticks are the backyard threat southwestern Pennsylvania homeowners keep ignoring
As spring unfolds, new research highlights an issue for southwestern Pennsylvania residents: Most people know ticks are in their backyard, but few believe they're actually at risk of contracting tick-borne illnesses.
Phys.org / Fins, fingers and toes: A new take on repeating body parts and how they come to be
As biologists know, nature can take its sweet time explaining itself. Andrew Gillis, associate scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), has been investigating how the paired fins of fishes evolved for nearly 20 ...
Phys.org / Protostars 'sneeze' and produce rings of gas and magnetic flux as they grow
Researchers have uncovered new insights into the early development of baby stars. As published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, a research team from Kyushu University and Kagawa University reports that during the early ...
Medical Xpress / Spinal cord stimulator stays rigid for surgery, then softens inside the body
What if chronic diseases, which are difficult to treat with medicine alone, could be managed with electricity? As "neuromodulation"—a technology that restores bodily balance by sending signals directly to nerves—gains attention, ...
Phys.org / Backyard birdwatchers help scientists uncover what hawks really like to eat
Anyone who keeps a bird feeder has likely had the same uneasy thought after seeing a sudden blur of wings in the yard: What was that hawk doing here?
Medical Xpress / How calcium channel mutations disrupt early brain development in childhood epilepsy
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have uncovered a previously unrecognized mechanism by which inherited calcium channel mutations disrupt early brain development and predispose children to epilepsy and related cognitive ...
Phys.org / Wisconsin-sized chunk of Alaskan permafrost is thawing: Geoscientists say climate may never be the same
In a first-of-its-kind study, a team of researchers led by geoscientist Michael Rawlins at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has shown in fine-grained detail what happens when Arctic permafrost thaws. Focusing on a ...
Phys.org / Thawing permafrost becomes 25 to 100 times more permeable, experiments find
Experiments by University of Leeds researchers, published in Earth's Future, have shown that thawing of permafrost makes it between 25 and 100 times more permeable, allowing more climate change forcing gases to escape.
Tech Xplore / Introducing MirrorBot, a robot designed to foster human connection
While technology has made the world "smaller," it has also pulled individuals apart, thanks to mobile phones and other devices that command our attention. Cornell University researchers are using technology, in the form of ...
Medical Xpress / Can a single therapy session make a difference? Experts say yes, with the right mindset
Just before the holidays in 2025, Julie Hart felt stuck. A nagging problem she had struggled with for years left her ruminating all day and questioning nearly everything she had ever said, done or could do.
Phys.org / Cosmic collision of galaxies mapped by Maunakea telescope
An astronomer at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo is using data from the Canada–France–Hawaiʻi Telescope (CFHT) on Maunakea to help reconstruct a slow-motion cosmic collision, one that has been unfolding for hundreds of ...
