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Medical Xpress / Do infrared saunas improve workout recovery? The evidence is still lukewarm

Infrared saunas are increasingly marketed as a post-exercise recovery tool that can reduce pain and fatigue, but the scientific evidence supporting these claims remains limited and conflicting.

5 hours ago
Phys.org / Microscale roughness breakthrough defies 80 years of fluid dynamics

Logically, you would think a sleek surface has optimal aerodynamics—but recent research at Tohoku University turns this fundamental principle on its head. Applying an irregular microscale surface texture reduced the aerodynamic ...

16 hours ago
Science X / GenAI: Cognitive crutch or scaffold? Two offloading styles, two mental outcomes

It was in the year 2022 when students and working individuals began making use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT for writing their essays or solving problems. The convenience of obtaining coherent text or some other ...

20 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Elephant-inspired cement tiles cool buildings without electricity

Inspired by the cracked, water-trapping skin of elephants, Penn researchers have developed a low-cost cement tile that cools buildings by capturing and slowly evaporating water—turning a structural flaw into a climate solution.

16 hours ago
Phys.org / Why river management is so crucial to protecting one of world's most important wetlands

A major new study led by Swansea University has shown that upstream river management, rather than local rainfall, is the primary driver of one of the world's most important wetlands. According to the research published in ...

12 hours ago
Phys.org / Transmissible cancer cells discovered in fish act more like parasites than traditional tumors

A team of Vermont researchers has discovered that mysterious black skin lesions afflicting catfish in Lake Memphremagog and other New England and Canadian lakes are caused by a transmissible cancer—the first identified in ...

17 hours ago
Phys.org / Q&A: Listening with light—an innovative new technology for studying the seafloor

The seafloor plays an important ecological and societal role. Understanding the processes that shape this environment will help guide conservation policy and decision-making about underwater infrastructure and geohazards.

13 hours ago
Medical Xpress / 2008 to 2023 saw shift in causes of cirrhosis

There have been substantial epidemiological shifts in the burden of cirrhosis in the United States during the past decade, according to a study published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.

7 hours ago
Phys.org / Carbon footprint of metal production could be more than 10 times higher than estimated

New research from the University of St Andrews has found that metal production carbon footprints could be more than 10 times higher than previously estimated, with serious implications for the ambition to reach net zero.

15 hours ago
Phys.org / Jupiter-mass 'exomoon' orbiting brown dwarf challenges cosmic labels

Observations made with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed evidence for a moon-like object in the CD-35 2722 system. Unlike moons in our solar system, the newly found object ...

17 hours ago
Phys.org / Removing 'forever chemicals' from farmlands—at a fraction of the cost

A Yale-led research team has proposed a less expensive—and more environmentally friendly—method for removing certain "forever chemicals" from millions of acres of farmland in the United States and around the world.

18 hours ago
Phys.org / New optical method follows single proteins as they shift shape

Researchers at the University of Twente have developed an optical method that follows the shape changes of a single protein in liquid without attaching anything to it. It reads the protein's structure from its own molecular ...

13 hours ago