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Medical Xpress / Doctors and scientists race to understand a rising form of heart failure

Approximately 3 million people in the United States are living with a condition called heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, or HFpEF. The number of people with this form of heart failure, which is more common in ...

Aug 24, 2026
Medical Xpress / Wastewater may offer an early warning of pertussis outbreaks

Pertussis, or whooping cough, continues to cause periodic outbreaks worldwide and can be especially dangerous for infants who have not completed vaccination. Yet conventional surveillance depends on people seeking medical ...

Aug 26, 2026
Medical Xpress / A new saliva test for endometriosis is in trials. What this and other new endo tests mean for you

It can take years for someone to be diagnosed with endometriosis. This can mean ongoing pain, repeated appointments, uncertainty and delayed treatment.

Aug 26, 2026
Tech Xplore / Streamlined path-finding model helps unmanned vehicles search 15 times as fast as conventional model

A hiker is lost in the forest, and winter weather is setting in. The search needs to be speedy, thorough and efficient. Searchers send out an autonomous robotic drone. But how does it know where it should go? New research ...

Aug 26, 2026
Medical Xpress / Extreme heat and childhood adversity linked to drinking patterns in older adults

The decision to crack open a beer on a hot summer day may be about more than refreshment, according to a new University of Georgia study. The paper is published in the journal JMIR Aging.

Aug 26, 2026
Phys.org / A little Big Bang: Bowling-pin-shaped nuclei shed new light on the universe's first moments

What happened in the first moments of the universe—before the building blocks of life and the world we know today came into existence? Physicists at the CERN research facility in Switzerland are trying to answer this question ...

Aug 20, 2026
Tech Xplore / US disrupts platforms allegedly used by Chinese hackers

U.S. law enforcement on Tuesday announced the seizure of internet domains allegedly used by Chinese hackers to target government agencies and critical infrastructure.

Aug 26, 2026
Dialog / Blood-clotting protein may be SARS-CoV-2's hidden accomplice, helping it hide from antibodies and reach blood vessels

Fibrinogen, the abundant plasma protein best known for forming blood clots, may play a second and far less benign role during SARS-CoV-2 infection: acting as a molecular bridge that simultaneously hides the virus from neutralizing ...

Aug 24, 2026
Phys.org / No sick days? How remote work is changing the way we work when ill

Working from home and digital technology may be making it easier for employees to work while ill and blurring the boundaries between work and home, according to a new study.

Aug 26, 2026
Phys.org / What has the return‑to‑office movement taught us? People, not technology, help companies get ahead

We like to believe that whatever ails a company can be fixed by digitizing it. And technology is easy to swap. Rip out the old system, bolt in the new one, declare yourself modern. But a company is not its buildings, its ...

Aug 26, 2026
Tech Xplore / Flexible sensor detects near-infrared light with higher response after repeated bending

A research team has developed a flexible near-infrared (NIR) photodetector that delivers photoresponsivity more than five times higher while maintaining its performance under repeated bending. The technology is expected to ...

Aug 26, 2026
Medical Xpress / Dementia with Lewy bodies: Why are some brain regions more affected than others?

Dementia with Lewy bodies is one of the most common forms of dementia in older adults, after Alzheimer's disease. It takes its name from "Lewy bodies," abnormal clumps of a protein called alpha-synuclein, first identified ...

Aug 26, 2026