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Phys.org / Danish brick architecture arrived via Germany, not directly from Italy, study reveals

For more than a century, building archaeologists have believed that the art of brick building in Denmark was imported directly from Lombardy in northern Italy in the mid-12th century. But a new study reveals that the story ...

Nov 19, 2025 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Blink to the beat: Scientists discover that when we listen to music, we unconsciously blink our eyes

Yi Du and colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Sciences published an article in the open access journal PLOS Biology detailing their findings about a new way our bodies naturally respond to music. Given a steady beat, our ...

Nov 18, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / AI tool mimics pathologists to improve breast cancer tissue analysis accuracy

A research team led by two University of Maine Ph.D. students developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that could make it easier and faster for doctors to identify signs of breast cancer in tissue samples, possibly ...

Nov 18, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / Quantum imaging settles 20-year debate on gold surface electron spin direction

Researchers at the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) have definitively resolved a two-decade-long controversy regarding the direction of electron spin on the surface of gold.

Nov 18, 2025 in Physics
Medical Xpress / Use of head CT scans in ERs more than doubles over 15 years

A new study shows large increases in the use of computed tomography (CT) scans of the head in emergency departments across the United States from 2007 to 2022. The study, which was published on November 19, 2025, in Neurology, ...

Nov 19, 2025 in Neuroscience
Phys.org / Chiral skyrmion flows enable new approach to nanoscale logic devices

In magnetic materials with antisymmetric exchange interactions, novel particle-like spin textures called magnetic skyrmions can appear and be manipulated by electrons. First observed in 2009, they have been created and controlled ...

Nov 18, 2025 in Nanotechnology
Phys.org / Ancient condors thrived on Peru's northern coast before retreating to the highlands, study reveals

In a recent study, Dr. Weronika Tomczyk and her colleagues conducted a zooarchaeological and isotopic study of ancient Andean condor bones from an archaeological site Castillo de Huarmey, providing the first and earliest ...

Nov 14, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Psychiatric treatment is no guarantee of a return to work, says study

Mental health problems are keeping an increasing number of Norwegians out of the employment market. Treatment alone is often not enough to get people back to work. Some groups are at greater risk of being away from work for ...

Nov 19, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Bone-targeted estrogen delivery reverses postmenopausal osteoporosis without uterine side effects in mice

Postmenopausal osteoporosis is a condition that weakens bones, making them brittle and prone to fracture. Taking the hormone estradiol can reverse these effects, but it may also increase endometrial and uterine cancer risks. ...

Nov 18, 2025 in Obstetrics & gynaecology
Medical Xpress / Muscle protein linked to exercise opens new way to treat Alzheimer's

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating cause of memory loss and cognitive decline, for which no curative treatment is available. Among lifestyle factors, physical activity stands out as possibly one of the strongest defenders ...

Medical Xpress / Even low-intensity smoking increases risk of heart attack and death, study finds

An analysis of data from almost two dozen long-term studies finds that even low-intensity smokers have a substantially higher risk of heart disease and death compared to people who never smoked, even years after they quit. ...

Nov 18, 2025 in Cardiology
Medical Xpress / Neural 'barcodes': Intra-regional brain dynamics linked to person-specific characteristics

People can think, behave and function very differently. These observed differences are known to be the result of complex interactions between genetics, neurobiological processes and life experiences.

Nov 14, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry