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Medical Xpress / New research shows no increase in proportion of adults in England with autism or psychotic disorders

The Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey provides the official statistics on trends over time in autism, psychotic disorder, bipolar disorder, drug and alcohol dependence

9 hours ago in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / Male skulls at Shimao gate rewrite story of Neolithic human sacrifice

A new study published in Nature on November 26 has shed light on the origins, population structures, and kinship systems of the people of Shimao—one of China's most significant late Neolithic settlements. Analyses of ancient ...

17 hours ago in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Astronomers unveil 400 sibling star clusters in the Milky Way

Stars usually form in clusters, which can also form in pairs or groups. Binary clusters (BCs) are defined as pairs of open clusters closely associated both in position and kinematics. They provide insight into how stars form ...

16 hours ago in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Q&A: Calcium channel mechanism provides new insights into cellular quality control

When three bright minds from different disciplines come together, something exceptional can happen. This is exactly what Prof. Patricia Hidalgo, Dr. Beatrix Santiago-Schübel, and Dr. Mercedes Alfonso-Prieto achieved at Forschungszentrum ...

9 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / 'Stick and glue' method enables more precise biomolecule tracking in cells

A team of researchers at IOCB Prague headed by Dr. Tomáš Slanina has developed a new method for labeling molecules with fluorescent dyes that surpasses existing approaches in both precision and stability. The new fluorescent ...

15 hours ago in Chemistry
Phys.org / Rare stone tool cache found in Australian outback tells story of trade and ingenuity

About 170 years ago, a large bundle of stone tools was deliberately buried close to a waterhole in the remote Australian outback. Who buried them and for what purpose? Why were they never retrieved?

16 hours ago in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Latent antimicrobial resistance is widespread across the world, research discovers

A group of researchers has analyzed 1,240 wastewater samples from 351 cities in 111 different countries and found that bacterial latent antimicrobial resistance is widespread on all the world's continents. The research was ...

16 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / The largest ice desert has the fewest ice nuclei worldwide

There are fewer ice nuclei in the air above the large ice surfaces of Antarctica than anywhere else in the world. This is the conclusion reached by an international research team led by the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric ...

16 hours ago in Earth
Phys.org / Nanostructured coatings physically puncture bacteria to prevent biofilm formation

Bacteria that multiply on surfaces are a major headache in health care when they gain a foothold on, for example, implants or in catheters. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have found a new weapon ...

16 hours ago in Nanotechnology
Tech Xplore / Researchers extend tensor programming to the continuous world

When the FORTRAN programming language debuted in 1957, it transformed how scientists and engineers programmed computers. Complex calculations could suddenly be expressed in concise, math-like notation using arrays—collections ...

18 hours ago in Computer Sciences
Phys.org / Students spend more time learning to write on paper than computers—does this need to change?

Writing using computers is a vital life skill. We are constantly texting, posting, blogging and emailing.

10 hours ago in Other Sciences
Phys.org / An unusually 'sticky' RNA class that keep cells organized: Researchers discover smOOPs

Inside cells, RNAs and proteins form tiny, liquid-like droplets called biomolecular condensates. These droplets are essential for organizing cellular life, yet why some RNAs cluster more readily than others has remained unclear. ...

16 hours ago in Biology