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Medical Xpress / Study suggests bamboo has 'superfood' potential

The world's first academic review into bamboo consumption has identified a surprising range of health benefits, including helping control blood sugar, fighting inflammation, improving gut health and acting as an antioxidant.

Jan 14, 2026 in Medical research
Tech Xplore / Understanding ammonia energy's tradeoffs around the world

Many people are optimistic about ammonia's potential as an energy source and carrier of hydrogen, and though large-scale adoption would require major changes to the way it is currently manufactured, ammonia does have a number ...

Jan 13, 2026 in Business
Phys.org / Why reading for pleasure matters

It's no secret New Zealand is facing a literacy crisis. Education Minister Erica Stanford has voiced serious concerns about the reading and writing abilities of our tamariki, noting many are not meeting expected benchmarks ...

Jan 14, 2026 in Other Sciences
Tech Xplore / First-ever dataset to improve English-to-Malayalam machine translation fills critical gap for low-resource languages

The world's first dataset aimed at improving the quality of English-to-Malayalam machine translation—a long-overlooked language spoken by more than 38 million people in India—has been developed by researchers at the University ...

Jan 14, 2026 in Machine learning & AI
Medical Xpress / New model fails to explain near-death experiences, scientists say

An ambitious effort to create a neurophysiological paradigm to explain near-death experiences has failed to capture many fascinating and often perplexing aspects of people's brushes with death, top University of Virginia ...

Jan 14, 2026 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Tiny sensor could transform head injury detection

A tiny sensor that detects hazardous head impacts the instant they occur could reshape safety monitoring in sports, transportation and other high-risk settings.

Jan 13, 2026 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Discrimination damages the body—and makes victims age faster

Has being discriminated against as an LGBTQ+ person been so bad, the stress so heavy, that the victim can literally feel it in their bones? Well, it turns out that's exactly what happens: discrimination damages the body and ...

Jan 14, 2026 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Tech Xplore / New framework helps AI systems recover from mistakes and find optimal solutions

If you use consumer AI systems, you have likely experienced something like AI "brain fog": You are well into a conversation when suddenly the AI seems to lose track of the different ideas you have been talking about and how ...

Jan 14, 2026 in Computer Sciences
Phys.org / Scientists reveal what drives homosexual behavior in primates

Homosexual behavior in primates has a deep evolutionary basis and is more likely to occur in species that live in harsh environments, are hunted by predators or live in more complex societies, scientists said Monday.

Jan 12, 2026 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Rise of preterm births in US linked to poverty and race

Researchers at Boston Medical Center, working with colleagues at University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health report that US preterm birth rates rose from 2011–2021 in households ...

Jan 11, 2026 in Obstetrics & gynaecology
Medical Xpress / Access to parks linked with greater physical activity for some, but not all, residents

A new two-year study found that U.S. residents who lived near parks and recreational facilities had small increases in their leisure-time physical activities, but the relationship was stronger in more affluent counties with ...

Jan 14, 2026 in Health
Medical Xpress / Night-time changes in metabolism may be driving common liver disease

Researchers at the University of Oxford have discovered that the most common liver disease follows a strong day-night pattern, and the metabolic changes that drive the disease are most pronounced overnight, when the body ...