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Medical Xpress / Nicotine use linked to mental health problems in adolescents, especially girls
Adolescents who use nicotine are more likely to report symptoms of anxiety, depression and other mental health problems than their peers who do not use nicotine. Girls appear to be particularly vulnerable, according to three ...
Medical Xpress / Most community health centers provide prenatal care, but one-third still lack services
A new national study provides the first comprehensive look at prenatal care services offered by federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), revealing that while these safety-net providers play a critical role in caring for ...
Medical Xpress / Trial of potential Ebola antiviral under way: WHO
The first clinical trial of an antiviral drug's effectiveness in people exposed to the deadly Ebola strain spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo is underway, the WHO said Tuesday.
Medical Xpress / One in four adults has metabolic syndrome, and it may be aging their brains
An estimated 1 in 4 adults worldwide has metabolic syndrome. While metabolic syndrome is most often thought of as a warning sign that diabetes or cardiovascular disease may be on the horizon, my team's new study suggests ...
Medical Xpress / Signaling pathway may help predict immunotherapy response in glioblastoma
Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered a biological mechanism that helps explain why most patients with glioblastoma fail to respond to immunotherapy, according to their study published in Nature Communications.
Tech Xplore / Large language models often prioritize Western moral values, overlooking other cultures
Large language artificial intelligence models, such as ChatGPT, often misjudge what people outside the West might value as a moral priority, according to our new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...
Phys.org / Lab-grown meat, gene editing and extreme fire: Researchers' predictions for life in the 2100s
Lab-grown meat, gene editing and extreme fire: researchers' predictions for life in the 2100s
Tech Xplore / Researchers propose light-driven random number generator for image security
While security systems based on pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) have been developed to secure information use, they produce sequences that are not truly random and suffer from inherent vulnerabilities and security ...
Tech Xplore / New soft sensor can turn touch into robotic action without electronics
Built from flexible, compliant materials, soft robots are gaining relevance for tasks ranging from minimally invasive surgery to deep-sea exploration but remain held back by a fundamental constraint. To sense their surroundings ...
Phys.org / How the SKA will use fast radio bursts to decode the universe
There are parts of the universe that are extremely hard to see, even for our most advanced telescopes. Gas and dust don't emit light and are visible only by the light they block from stars and galaxies. Magnetic fields are ...
Medical Xpress / Advanced climate models used to estimate temperature-related suicide patterns by 2050
A large international team, including researchers from the University of Tokyo, wanted to know whether and how climate change might increase the number of temperature-related suicides around the world. Previous studies have ...
Phys.org / Heat deaths are a public health crisis rooted in housing inequality
The heat waves of late May and June killed an estimated 2,700 people in England and Wales, according to a recent analysis—around 550 in May, when west London hit 35.1°C (95°F), and 2,200 in June, as East Anglia reached 37°C ...
