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Medical Xpress / Childhood exposure to air pollution linked to poorer cognitive performance in later life
People across the globe, especially in low-income countries, continue to use solid fuels like coal, wood and plant waste for cooking and heating. The resulting indoor air pollution exposes children to smoke and particles ...
Phys.org / Africa's climate finance rules are growing, but they're weakly enforced, new research suggests
Climate change is no longer just about melting ice or hotter summers. It is also a financial problem. Droughts, floods, storms and heat waves damage crops, factories and infrastructure. At the same time, the global push to ...
Phys.org / Repeating fast radio burst shows diverse activity and hints at magnetar origin
Using the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT), Indian astronomers have performed multi-frequency observations of a repeating fast radio burst designated FRB 20201124A. Results of these observations shed more ...
Dialog / A semicrystalline catalyst balances activity and stability for electrolytic hydrogen production
The production of clean hydrogen through water electrolysis is a promising route toward emission-free and sustainable energy technologies. However, its efficiency is still constrained by the kinetically sluggish oxygen evolution ...
Phys.org / The G20 was built to stabilize the world's economy—but it's failed on climate, debt and inequality
The Group of Twenty (G20) emerged from the financial turmoil that followed the collapse of the Thai currency in 1997, which rapidly spread financial instability from Thailand to the rest of Asia.
Medical Xpress / How aggressive breast cancer controls protein production
A previously unknown mechanism that makes it possible for aggressive so-called triple-negative breast cancer to fine-tune its production of proteins has been discovered by researchers at Umeå University, Sweden. The discovery ...
Medical Xpress / New 'humane intelligence' framework guides safer, more patient-centered AI in older-adult mental health care
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used to identify older adults for services, support people between visits, and guide referrals and care pathways. Yet much AI governance still emphasizes algorithms and infrastructure ...
Medical Xpress / How to prevent and fight norovirus
Nearly half a million Americans visit the emergency room (ER) each year with a fast-spreading stomach bug called norovirus.
Phys.org / Modern rock wallabies seem to survive by sticking together in small areas: Fossils show they need to travel
Today, rock wallabies are seen as secretive cliff-dwellers that rarely stray far from the safety of their rocky shelters. But the fossil record tells a very different story.
Medical Xpress / Common blood protein protects patients from lethal 'black fungus' infection, new study finds
Albumin is the most common protein in the blood, a vital molecule produced by the liver that helps maintain fluid balance and transports proteins and hormones. It also plays a key role in fighting off a lethal disease called ...
Medical Xpress / Fast-tracked drug approvals pose safety risks, study shows
A new study co-written by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign expert in operations management finds that drugs approved under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's "Breakthrough Therapy Designation"—a program designed ...
Medical Xpress / Overcoming obstacles to HIV prevention
Though an antiretroviral medication called PrEP provides near-perfect protection against HIV, patients must often surmount hurdles to obtain it.
