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Medical Xpress / Losing sleep over money: Study reveals how financial stress follows workers to bed

Long before the alarm sounds, many Americans lose quality rest to the quiet worries that surface after dark—whether about bills, the next paycheck or job stability.

4 hours ago in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / Are university policies holding science back? Study shows how patenting boosts pure research

When UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna first began studying how bacteria fight virus infections, she had no idea it would result in one of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the century. Her curiosity-driven ...

16 hours ago in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Do super-Jupiters look like Jupiter? Not necessarily, study shows

Using images from the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), an international research team including Western's Stanimir Metchev has discovered new answers to explain how some brown dwarfs form giant dust storms, contradicting ...

15 hours ago in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / New study overturns assumptions about AFib treatment in sleep apnea patients

Obstructive sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation (AFib) are two conditions that share a potentially deadly link. Having one increases the odds of developing the other, and together, the breathing difficulties of sleep apnea ...

4 hours ago in Cardiology
Phys.org / Scientists can finally answer an old question about cellular aging

After a finite number of divisions, cells simply give up. As each round of replication trims their telomeres—the protective caps at the chromosome ends—those caps eventually become too short to prevent chromosome ends ...

18 hours ago in Biology
Medical Xpress / Drug that costs as little as 50 cents per day could save hospitals thousands

A study led by McMaster University researchers shows that a widely available and inexpensive medication not only prevents potentially serious stomach bleeding in critically ill patients, but also saves hospitals thousands ...

17 hours ago in Medications
Phys.org / When 'hearing' means 'understanding': The case of the verb kikoyu in pre-modern Japanese

A new study draws on a rigorous analysis of the Corpus of Historical Japanese to trace the semantic evolution of the verb "kikoyu" from the 8th century to the 20th century. This verb, which initially referred to unintentional ...

4 hours ago in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Extensive hydrothermal vent field discovered off Milos reveals tectonic influence

A new study published in Scientific Reports reports the discovery of a remarkably extensive hydrothermal vent field on the shelf of Milos Island, Greece. The vents were identified during the METEOR expedition M192, where ...

17 hours ago in Earth
Phys.org / A new possibility for life: Study suggests ancient skies rained down ingredients

Earth's atmosphere might have contributed to the origin of life more than previously thought. In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, CU Boulder researchers and collaborators reveal that ...

18 hours ago in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Bird-of-paradise inspires darkest fabric ever made

The color "ultrablack"—defined as reflecting less than 0.5% of the light that hits it—has a variety of uses, including in cameras, solar panels and telescopes, but it's difficult to produce and can appear less black when ...

18 hours ago in Chemistry
Tech Xplore / 'Rock candy' technique offers simpler, less costly way to capture carbon directly from air

University of Toronto Engineering researchers have discovered a new way of capturing carbon directly from the air—one that could offer significant cost savings over current methods.

17 hours ago in Engineering
Phys.org / AI's impact could worsen gaps between world's rich and poor, a UN report says

Behind the hoopla over the promise of artificial intelligence lay difficult realities, including how such technology might affect people already disadvantaged in a data-driven world.

4 hours ago in Other Sciences