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Medical Xpress / What's the difference between a home birth and a free birth?

If you're looking on social media for information and experiences of giving birth at home, you'll find widely varied content.

17 hours ago in Obstetrics & gynaecology
Medical Xpress / Daily oral GLP-1 pill a promising alternative to injectables for weight loss, clinical trial finds

A new oral GLP-1 medication can help adults with obesity and type 2 diabetes lose more weight and improve their blood sugar levels compared to a placebo, according to findings from the ATTAIN-2 trial led by a UTHealth Houston ...

18 hours ago in Diabetes
Phys.org / What did countries agree to at COP30?

The COP30 climate summit has drawn to a close after two weeks in the Amazonian city of Belem where protests, street marches and even a fire caused unexpected moments of drama.

14 hours ago in Earth
Phys.org / Physicists and philosophers have long struggled to understand the nature of time: Here's why

The nature of time has plagued thinkers for as long as we've tried to understand the world we live in. Intuitively, we know what time is, but try to explain it, and we end up tying our minds in knots.

Nov 19, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Physicists demonstrate the constancy of the speed of light with unprecedented accuracy

In 1887, one of the most important experiments in the history of physics took place. American scientists Michelson and Morley failed to measure the speed of Earth by comparing the speed of light in the direction of Earth's ...

Nov 19, 2025 in Physics
Phys.org / New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect after nearly two centuries

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem discovered that the magnetic component of light plays a direct role in the Faraday effect, overturning a 180-year-old assumption that only its electric field mattered.

Nov 19, 2025 in Physics
Phys.org / Theia and Earth were neighbors, new research suggests

About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of Earth occurred: a huge celestial body called Theia collided with the young Earth. How the collision unfolded and what exactly happened afterward has ...

Nov 20, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / What would a small black hole do to the human body? Scientist aims to answer that

Some people may worry about being bitten by a snake or spider, but have you ever considered what would happen if a small black hole tried to pass through your body?

Nov 21, 2025 in Physics
Medical Xpress / Fluoridated water linked to better adolescent school achievement

Children exposed to recommended levels of fluoride in drinking water show modest cognitive advantages in secondary school, with no clear evidence of harm to cognitive functioning around age 60, according to researchers at ...

Nov 20, 2025 in Neuroscience
Phys.org / How dark energy changed cosmology forever

Let's rewind the clock back…oh, I don't know, let's say a hundred years. It was 1917, and Einstein had just developed his general theory of relativity. It was a masterpiece, giving us our modern-day view of the gravitational ...

Nov 18, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Humans are evolved for nature, not cities, say anthropologists

A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that chronic stress and many ...

Nov 18, 2025 in Biology
Phys.org / How most of the universe's visible mass is generated: Experiments explore emergence of hadron mass

Deep in the heart of the matter, some numbers don't add up. For example, while protons and neutrons are made of quarks, nature's fundamental building blocks bound together by gluons, their masses are much larger than the ...

Nov 18, 2025 in Physics