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Medical Xpress / Triglyceride-lowering drug does not affect plaque in arteries at one year in patients with elevated triglycerides: Study

Despite experiencing significant reductions in triglycerides, patients with triglycerides over 150 mg/dL and a high risk of atherosclerosis did not experience any significant change in the amount of non-calcified plaque in ...

Mar 30, 2026
Phys.org / Study in search of a tropical spring is first to show some birds flip their breeding season in response to climate

In 2014, Felicity Newell joined the Florida Museum of Natural History as a doctoral student, then promptly left the country in search of a tropical spring. It's a concept she started thinking about while doing biological ...

Mar 27, 2026
Medical Xpress / With help from AI, eye images offer window into cardiovascular risk

A new system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to assess cardiovascular risk based on images of the eye captured during eye exams demonstrated strong correlation with a standard cardiovascular risk assessment, according ...

Mar 30, 2026
Phys.org / Journalism scholars document newspapers' role in reconstruction-era authoritarianism

When Bella Astrofsky, who's poised to graduate in May with a bachelor's degree in journalism, began digging through 19th-century newspapers, she did not expect to help inform how historians understand the end of Reconstruction ...

Mar 30, 2026
Medical Xpress / Culturally tailored food intervention delivers meaningful blood pressure reductions, finds study

Black and Hispanic adults with high blood pressure (hypertension) who received a culturally tailored food-based intervention with dietitian coaching experienced a significant drop in blood pressure compared with those who ...

Mar 30, 2026
Phys.org / Novel measurement confirms a 50-year-old prediction: Dark points are faster than light

A research group from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology reports in Nature an unprecedented achievement in electron microscopy: the direct measurement of "dark points" within light waves. By doing so, the researchers ...

Mar 26, 2026
Phys.org / Independent measurement strengthens the case for toponium

A new independent measurement by the CMS experiment at the LHC is consistent with the existence of the most massive composite particle ever observed, the momentary union of a top quark and its antiquark

Mar 26, 2026
Phys.org / Physicists create optical phenomenon inspired by the quantum Hall and spin Hall effects

Researchers at the Würzburg site of the Cluster of Excellence ctd.qmat have succeeded in transferring the topological quantum Hall and spin Hall effects to a hybrid light-matter system by harnessing targeted material design. ...

Mar 27, 2026
Phys.org / AI tools are widely used by federal judges, study finds

A new Northwestern study surveying federal judges across the U.S. on their use and outlook on artificial intelligence in and outside of the courtroom found that more than 60% of judges who responded reported using at least ...

Mar 30, 2026
Medical Xpress / Mavacamten improves obstruction in adolescents with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Adolescent patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) who received the drug mavacamten saw a significant improvement in left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) gradient, a measure of blood flow obstruction ...

Mar 30, 2026
Tech Xplore / New bifacial solar cells yield efficiencies above 32%

Solar cells, devices that can convert sunlight into electricity, are now widely used in many countries worldwide. Over the past few years, energy engineers have been exploring alternative designs that could further boost ...

Mar 24, 2026
Medical Xpress / Q&A: How studying two different viruses can lead to new strategies for more potent antiviral treatments

Beyond both being viruses, HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 don't seem to have a lot in common. HIV-1 is a retrovirus that integrates with its host's DNA for life and can be passed down from mother to child, while SARS-CoV-2 is contagious ...

Mar 30, 2026