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Medical Xpress / Hip dips: What are they and can you really get rid of them?
Hip dips are having a moment. The perfectly normal indentations that sit below your hips on the outer thigh have become the latest body feature to be scrutinized, fixed and agonized over on social media. But what are they? ...
Medical Xpress / Cancer cells' hunger may reveal new ways to track and slow tumors
By their nature, cancer cells have different nutritional needs than healthy cells. "Cancer cells have a distinct metabolism," said Gary Patti, the Michael and Tana Powell Professor of Chemistry at Washington University in ...
Phys.org / Costa Rica paid landowners to restore forests and biodiversity—bioacoustics indicate that it worked
Forest restoration can help fight climate change and restore lost biodiversity, but the satellite-based techniques used to measure successful forest restoration have been less-than-helpful for measuring changes in biodiversity. ...
Phys.org / How climate shapes the meanings of words across languages
When English speakers say "rose" and Chinese speakers say "玫瑰," do they mean the same thing? A Peking University team led by Professor Bi Yanchao explored this question using word embeddings from 53 languages, behavioral ...
Phys.org / 3D-printed nozzle array could streamline production of drug-delivery microparticles
MIT researchers have demonstrated a low-cost design for specialized electronic nozzles, called triaxial electrospray emitters, that could be used to manufacture time-release drug-delivery particles or self-healing materials ...
Phys.org / Visualizing band structures in nanostructures: Extending band theory to imperfect periodic and bent systems
An international collaborative research group has developed a new computational method to visualize the electronic states of aperiodic nanomaterials as band structures through first-principles calculations on finite-sized ...
Medical Xpress / Peripheral vision helps readers process skipped words in 250 milliseconds
Reading seems like a straightforward process. The eyes scan the words, and the brain turns them into meaning. But it's not always that simple. Readers regularly skip words, sometimes without realizing it. New research from ...
Tech Xplore / Robots are closing in on human-like judgments, addressing a key challenge in physical AI
KAIST researchers solved a key challenge in the commercialization of physical AI by developing a new technology that enables AI to learn human judgment criteria on its own from just a few videos.
Phys.org / How Artemis II livestreamed hi-def videos and images from the moon to Earth
This April, humanity had front-row seats to space as the Artemis II Orion spacecraft transmitted crystal-clear footage of its historic journey around the moon from more than 250,000 miles (about 402,000 kilometers) back to ...
Phys.org / Some drugs 'fail' because of unrealistic testing conditions, scientists discover
A drug once dismissed as ineffective suddenly worked—when scientists tested it under more realistic conditions that mimic the human body. In this surprising new discovery, Northwestern University scientists uncovered a hidden ...
Medical Xpress / High blood pressure associated with lower risk of dementia in frail people
For people with physical frailty, having high blood pressure may be associated with a lower risk of dementia, according to a study published in Neurology. The study did not find a lower risk of dementia in people with high ...
Phys.org / Everyone wants to think they're open‑minded. Here's why most people aren't
Most people think they are open-minded and would like others to perceive them as such. But for the things that matter most—religious beliefs, for example, or the meaning of life—few of us are genuinely willing to consider ...
