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Medical Xpress / The body processes good fats and bad fats differently, study finds

The concept of "good fats" and "bad fats" has influenced diet trends, public health policy, and biomedical research for decades. Now, a new study led by Thomas A. Vallim, Ph.D., a researcher and professor of medicine in the ...

Medical Xpress / Maternal perinatal depression may increase the risk of autistic-related traits in girls

A research team from the Department of Psychiatry at Tohoku University, led by Dr. Zhiqian Yu and Professor Hiroaki Tomita, has uncovered compelling evidence that maternal perinatal depression—psychological distress occurring ...

6 hours ago in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / When silicon fills the role of carbon: Debut of all-silicon cyclopentadienides

Carbon's unique chemical properties allow it to be an essential building block for life on Earth and many other molecules we rely on for day-to-day life—but what about carbon's neighbor? Silicon is located one row below ...

6 hours ago in Chemistry
Phys.org / The dirty afterlife of a dead satellite

Sometimes we humans get ahead of ourselves. We embark on grand engineering experiments without really understanding what the long-term implications of such projects are. Climate change itself is a perfect example of that—no ...

1 hour ago in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Two key enzymes drive fat loss while preserving muscle: New pathway may lead to safer obesity treatments

A team of scientists has uncovered a critical mechanism that could pave the way for safer and more effective obesity treatments. The findings, published in Nature Communications, shed light on how leptin, a hormone that regulates ...

7 hours ago in Overweight & Obesity
Medical Xpress / STS: Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting shows lower perioperative morbidity, mortality than on-pump

Perioperative morbidity and mortality are slightly reduced with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) performed off-pump (OPCAB) by experienced surgeons, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the Society ...

3 hours ago in Cardiology
Phys.org / Three-component catalyst boosts ammonia from nitrate electrolysis by more than 50%

A research team led by Dr. Dandan Gao from the Department of Chemistry at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has developed a new method for the sustainable production of ammonia and formic acid. Ammonia is indispensable ...

7 hours ago in Chemistry
Medical Xpress / Sleep disruption damages gut's self-repair ability via stress signals from brain: A biological chain reaction

Chronic sleep disruption doesn't just leave people tired and irritable. It may quietly undermine the gut's ability to repair itself, increasing vulnerability to serious digestive diseases. A new study from the University ...

6 hours ago in Sleep disorders
Phys.org / Simulation finds Grass2Gas biogas systems may reduce dairy emissions by over 20%

Implementing novel management practices in dairy farming, one of the commonwealth's major agricultural industries, could help alleviate a large source of both nutrient pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, according to ...

7 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / A dinosaur with spikes exhibiting unprecedented properties discovered in China

Documented for 200 years, the Iguanodontia group is expanding with the discovery of a brand-new species, the first known to bear spikes with properties never before observed in dinosaurs. Scientists from the CNRS1 and their ...

4 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / Measuring time at the quantum level depends on material symmetry

EPFL physicists have found a way to measure the time involved in quantum events and found it depends on the symmetry of the material. "The concept of time has troubled philosophers and physicists for thousands of years, and ...

8 hours ago in Physics
Medical Xpress / Preclinical study successfully reverses loss of blood flow to brain, an early sign of Alzheimer's disease

Supriya Chakraborty might have been studying insects in a lab had it not been for an immunology college instructor in India who taught him about the superheroes inside him—immune cells that wage a battle against bacteria, ...

7 hours ago in Neuroscience