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Phys.org / Research reveals cost-effective food waste treatment through sewage systems
A research team at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed an innovative urban food waste management framework by analyzing food waste data from 29 large cities worldwide, including Hong Kong, ...
Medical Xpress / Why Huntington's proteins pile up: Two key tags guide their disposal
There is no known cure for Huntington's disease. A genetic mutation creates harmful proteins that accumulate and cause the disease's typical symptoms. A team from the Department of Human Genetics at Ruhr University Bochum, ...
Medical Xpress / Glyphosate: What Indigenous communities have suspected for years about the dangers of the herbicide
There have been renewed questions around the safety of the herbicide glyphosate in light of the recent retraction of an influential peer-reviewed research article. Originally published in 2000 in the academic journal Regulatory ...
Medical Xpress / Review of 40 years of genetics suggests dyslexia involves broader brain networks
A University of Houston psychology professor is challenging the notion that dyslexia, or specific reading disorder, stems from a single faulty gene in the brain, suggesting instead that it is caused by an overall brain network ...
Medical Xpress / Choosing an IVF embryo is uncertain: A new dish design could improve what labs see
Selecting the healthiest embryo is one of the most important steps in in‑vitro fertilization (IVF), yet it remains one of the most uncertain. Roughly 15% of couples worldwide experience infertility, and IVF success rates ...
Medical Xpress / Neglected killer: kala-azar disease surges in Kenya
For nearly a year, repeated misdiagnoses of the deadly kala-azar disease left 60-year-old Harada Hussein Abdirahman's health deteriorating, as an outbreak in Kenya's arid regions claimed a record number of lives.
Medical Xpress / Q&A: What is chronic venous insufficiency? A vascular surgeon answers
Up to 40% of adults in the United States have chronic venous insufficiency, a condition in which veins in the legs don't function properly, preventing blood flow back to the heart. Miguel F. Manzur, MD, a vascular surgeon ...
Medical Xpress / Relationship experts and couples say romance doesn't need grand gestures to thrive
Doing something romantic for Valentine's Day does not need to involve a heart-shaped box of chocolates, roses or an atypically expensive dinner, according to relationship experts.
Phys.org / Dark matter, not a black hole, could power Milky Way's heart
Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark matter exerting the same gravitational influence, astronomers say. They believe this invisible substance—which ...
Phys.org / Webb unveils nature of distant ultraviolet-luminous galaxy CEERS2-588
Astronomers from the University of Tokyo in Japan and elsewhere have employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a distant ultraviolet-luminous galaxy known as CEERS2-588. Results of the observational campaign, ...
Medical Xpress / Study finds thriving is measurable and reflects care quality in Finnish care homes
Recent research at Åbo Akademi University highlights that promoting thriving is essential for older people in care homes and constitutes a cornerstone of high-quality aged care. Ann-Sofie Silvennoinen's doctoral thesis in ...
Phys.org / A 'crazy' dice proof leads to a new understanding of a fundamental law of physics
Right now, molecules in the air are moving around you in chaotic and unpredictable ways. To make sense of such systems, physicists use a law known as the Boltzmann distribution, which, rather than describe exactly where each ...
