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Medical Xpress / Fluoridated water linked to better adolescent school achievement

Children exposed to recommended levels of fluoride in drinking water show modest cognitive advantages in secondary school, with no clear evidence of harm to cognitive functioning around age 60, according to researchers at ...

Nov 20, 2025 in Neuroscience
Phys.org / How wealth and postcode affect children with special educational needs

A new report from social mobility charity the Sutton Trust shows that children from poorer families are more likely to have special educational needs. It also shows that children from wealthier families who have some kind ...

Nov 25, 2025 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Can electrolysis solve one of the biggest contamination problems?

ETH Zurich researchers have developed a process that can be used on site to render environmental toxins such as DDT and lindane harmless and convert them into valuable chemicals—a breakthrough for the remediation of contaminated ...

Nov 25, 2025 in Chemistry
Tech Xplore / Fish-friendly innovation could turn river barriers into green power stations

Researchers from Trinity and UCD have designed and road- or "river"-tested a new barrier modification system that enables fish to travel up and downstream while simultaneously generating green energy for local consumption.

Nov 25, 2025 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / ULTRARAM beyond the lab: The gap between elegant physics and commercial viability

Recent research from a University of Adelaide academic has outlined the gap between scientific reality and whether a promising technology reaches commercial production. Adjunct Lecturer Dr. Dominic Lane, School of Electrical ...

Nov 25, 2025 in Hardware
Tech Xplore / From concrete to community: How synthetic data can make urban digital twins more humane

When city leaders talk about making a town "smart," they're usually talking about urban digital twins. These are essentially high-tech, 3D computer models of cities. They are filled with data about buildings, roads and utilities. ...

Nov 25, 2025 in Engineering
Phys.org / Two centuries of tree rings reveal hydroclimatic patterns and mega-drought impacts in China's Central Water Tower

The Qinling-Bashan Mountains (QBMs) serve as an important boundary between southern and northern China and are dubbed China's Central Water Tower (CCWT). However, the spatiotemporal structures and dynamics of the summer hydroclimate, ...

Nov 25, 2025 in Earth
Medical Xpress / Shape of your behind may signal diabetes

The shape of the gluteus maximus muscle in the buttocks changes in different ways with aging, lifestyle, frailty, osteoporosis and type 2 diabetes, and these changes differ between women and men, according to new research ...

Nov 25, 2025 in Diabetes
Phys.org / How social risk and 'happiness inequality' shape well-being across nations

In recent years, governments worldwide have expressed concern over rising inequality, eroding social cohesion, and declining trust in institutions.

Nov 25, 2025 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / New scalable single-spin qubits could simplify future processors

Quantum computers, which operate leveraging effects rooted in quantum mechanics, have the potential of tackling some computational and optimization tasks that cannot be solved by classical computers. Instead of bits (i.e., ...

Nov 20, 2025 in Physics
Tech Xplore / New transmission towers are crucial for renewables—but contentious: Here's where they could go

Solar and wind now provide 99% of new generating capacity in Australia. Renewables supply more than 40% of power to the main grid.

Nov 25, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Medical Xpress / Bringing AI into the NICU: How algorithms may help infants' eyes, health

When ophthalmologist Emily Cole, MD, steps into the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Children's Hospital Colorado to evaluate an infant's eyes for a disease called retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), it's not uncommon ...

Nov 25, 2025 in Ophthalmology