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Medical Xpress / Community-based care can cut depression and self-harm risk among teens in India's urban slums

In a significant advance for adolescent mental health in India, researchers have successfully demonstrated a scalable, community‑based care model through Project ARTEMIS, showing measurable reductions in depression, self‑harm ...

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Medical Xpress / Infants make nuanced moral character judgments as early as 12 months old

Psychologists at the University of Toronto have found that we begin to make moral character judgments as early as 12 months old. The research, published in Communications Psychology, also recognizes that individuals can exist ...

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Phys.org / 'Ruthless predator' of red tide plankton reveals unusual bioluminescence

Scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography have uncovered new insights into the bioluminescence of a unique species of marine plankton that feeds on other plankton, including the harmful algae responsible ...

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Phys.org / Scientists leverage AI to optimize glass formulas for liquid radioactive waste

Scientists have used the power of AI to analyze and predict the conversion of liquid radioactive waste into solid glass waste forms, increasing the amount of waste that goes into each container of glass produced and reducing ...

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Medical Xpress / Methamphetamine use linked to 1 in 6 heart attacks in California study

Methamphetamine (meth) use accounted for nearly 15% of heart attacks for a decade in a northern California study, published today in JAHA.

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Phys.org / No brain required: This is how the single-celled Stentor learns

Scientists have known for more than a century that a single-celled organism with no nerve cells—much less a brain—can behave in ways that resemble learning. But those observations only went so far. How the organism did that ...

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Science X / Superconductivity that shouldn't exist: Physicists dissect the mind-boggling properties of a strange quantum material

The material UTe2 exhibits multiple forms of zero electrical resistance—a phenomenon known as superconductivity—and displays several puzzling properties. After UTe2 loses its superconductivity at a certain magnetic field, ...

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Medical Xpress / Rethinking mRNA vaccines: Liver targeting can suppress immunity, while muscle boosts it

A new study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai overturns a longstanding assumption about how mRNA vaccines generate immunity, revealing that certain non-immune cells help determine vaccine effectiveness.

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Medical Xpress / Not all organs age alike: AI unveils the molecular impact of menopause across the female body

Despite affecting half of the world's population, menopause has historically been understudied and misunderstood, both in biomedical research and clinical practice. However, with the increase in life expectancy, the number ...

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Medical Xpress / Significant rise in valley fever cases in El Paso linked to extreme weather, dust, study finds

A new study by researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso has identified a significant rise in Valley fever cases in El Paso over the past decade and found strong connections between the disease and extreme weather, ...

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Phys.org / Lack of education or employment in early adulthood has scarring effect into midlife, study shows

Being out of work and education between the ages of 16 and 24 has long-term consequences for people's employment, finances, physical and mental health in midlife, according to new UCL research. A new report by the UCL Centre ...

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Phys.org / Scorpions' weapons are fortified with metal to suit their needs, research shows

Scorpions wield some of the natural world's most formidable built-in weapons, from crushing pincers to venomous stingers. Scientists have long known that these structures contain trace metals that strengthen them, but only ...

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