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Phys.org / Tennessee canola acres increased in 2026

With high input costs and volatile crop markets affecting profitability, many Tennessee row crop producers are looking to diversify their farming operations in coming years. Canola, a cool-season crop, could serve as an alternative ...

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Phys.org / #MeToo and the marketplace: Can social reform impact consumer spending?

Consumers have been quick to reject problematic sexual content since the #MeToo movement began in 2018, and new research from the University of Arizona concludes that sentiment has affected their wallets. When small changes ...

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Medical Xpress / Q&A: A new model reveals hidden disease signatures and predicts health outcomes

Sarah Urbut, MD, Ph.D., of the Mass General Brigham Heart and Vascular Institute, is the lead author of a paper published in Nature, "A Bayesian framework for longitudinal EHR and genetic discovery." Pradeep Natarajan, MD, ...

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Phys.org / New method makes epigenetic aging clocks accurate and easier to interpret

Epigenetic clocks are important tools in modern aging research. Typically, they use characteristic DNA methylation patterns in the genome to precisely predict a person's age and infer conclusions about the individual's biological ...

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Medical Xpress / Experimental drug may protect the heart in Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Researchers at the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine have identified a potential pathway that could protect cardiac function in people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a progressive and fatal genetic disease that ...

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Medical Xpress / Early inflammation signal drives oral cancer development, highlights path for immunoprevention

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center identified an immune pathway that may promote the progression of oral precancerous lesions into head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. These results provide ...

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Phys.org / In search of life beyond our solar system: Atmosphere detected on a habitable-zone rocky world

In a major milestone in the search for life on other planets, astronomers have detected, for the first time, an atmosphere surrounding an Earth-like, rocky planet orbiting within the habitable zone of another star. The finding ...

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Medical Xpress / Researchers investigate potential connections between menopausal hormone therapy and ocular health

Faculty members at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine are working together across academic departments to learn more about how menopausal hormone therapy, sometimes referred to as hormone replacement therapy, ...

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Phys.org / Ticks that survive pesticides can withstand colder winters

Ticks that survive less-than-lethal doses of pesticide are able to withstand dangerous cold, which could help them spread tick-borne diseases farther north, a UC study has found. Biologists with the University of Cincinnati ...

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Medical Xpress / Yes, breathing wildfire smoke can harm your health—here's what you can do to protect yourself

Wildfire smoke from fires burning in Canada and northern Minnesota has been pouring across the Great Lakes and northeastern U.S. states, turning skies an eerie shade of orange. In the West, smoke has also been spreading into ...

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Tech Xplore / A new robotic hand capable of switching between multiple grippers using a single motor

For robots to be used in various settings, such as factories, logistics, service industries and households, they must be able to stably handle a diverse range of objects differing in shape, size, weight and rigidity. However, ...

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Phys.org / In the battle of the sexes, the pay gap persists

Conceived by famed sociologist Paula England in the mid-1990s, occupational devaluation theory helps explain why workers in occupations with more women get paid less than workers in occupations with more men.

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