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Medical Xpress / Study details neuropsychiatric symptoms and biological mechanisms of long COVID

Nearly three years since the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic was declared over, conservative estimates suggest that between 80 million and 400 million people worldwide have long COVID. This chronic condition associated with the infection ...

Mar 23, 2026
Phys.org / Children shaped clay 15,000 years ago, long before pottery or farming, archaeologists find

Long before pottery, before agriculture, when the first villages took shape, people in the Levant were already molding clay with their hands, carefully, deliberately, and sometimes playfully. Some of those hands belonged ...

Mar 18, 2026
Phys.org / Yes, AI could boost productivity, but work is about more than maximizing output

Worries about the British economy have long been dominated by one persistent concern—weak productivity. Since the financial crisis of 2008, growth has stagnated, leaving the UK trailing well behind the US, France and Germany ...

Mar 23, 2026
Phys.org / Challenging a 300-year-old law of friction

Researchers at the University of Konstanz have uncovered a new mechanism of sliding friction: resistance to motion that arises without any mechanical contact, driven purely by collective magnetic dynamics. The study, published ...

Mar 18, 2026
Medical Xpress / Dietary changes and medications could help prevent recurrent kidney stones

A systematic review of 31 studies found that diet changes like increasing fluid intake and following a diet low in salt and protein may help prevent recurrent nephrolithiasis, or kidney stones. In addition, several medications, ...

Mar 23, 2026
Phys.org / Prolonged exposure to microplastics disrupts the metabolism of Mediterranean octocorals, finds study

Prolonged exposure to microplastics can disrupt vital physiological processes in gorgonians, such as respiration. Although these pollutants do not cause visible damage to tissues and cells, their effects could have an ecological ...

Mar 23, 2026
Phys.org / The way you walk can reveal your true feelings

Whether you're striding with purpose, swaggering with confidence, or trudging slowly along the street, the way you walk can reveal how you're feeling, according to new research published in the journal Royal Society Open ...

Mar 18, 2026
Medical Xpress / Is your brain aging faster than you are? Sleep may hold the key

A machine-learning analysis of brain waves recorded during sleep may help identify people at high risk of developing dementia, according to a study led by UC San Francisco and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. ...

Mar 22, 2026
Phys.org / Astronomers discover long-period radio transient of unknown origin

Using the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP), astronomers have discovered a new long-period radio transient source, which received the designation ASKAP J142431.2–612611 (ASKAP J1424 for short). The newfound transient has ...

Mar 17, 2026
Medical Xpress / HPV-positive cancers hide from the immune system, but blocking a single protein could make the tumors treatable

A team of scientists at Henry Ford Health + Michigan State University Health Sciences have uncovered a mechanism that allows certain head and neck cancers to hide from the immune system, a discovery that could change how ...

Mar 22, 2026
Phys.org / DESI maps C-19, an extremely metal-poor Milky Way stellar stream

Using the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, an international team of astronomers has observed C-19—an extremely metal-poor stellar stream in the Milky Way's halo. Results of the observational campaign, ...

Mar 19, 2026
Phys.org / The deep freshwater reservoir hidden beneath the Great Salt Lake

A potentially huge underground reservoir of freshwater beneath the Great Salt Lake is coming into sharper focus with a new study that used airborne electromagnetic (AEM) surveys to X-ray geologic structures under Farmington ...

Mar 20, 2026