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Medical Xpress / Grandparents are a vital resource in the child mental health crisis, says psychologist

As more than 40% of American teenagers report persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, a leading child psychologist says that grandparents and extended family have a vital role to play.

13 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Traditional tertiary teaching models shortchanging neurodivergent students in health care studies

Recent Deakin research into the experiences of neurodivergent students studying for future health care careers showed many experience stigma, inadequate help in classroom and clinical settings, and hard-to-navigate support ...

22 hours ago
Medical Xpress / FDA approves rapid-acting inhaled insulin for children

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Afrezza (insulin human) Inhalation Powder for use in children and adolescents aged 6 years and older who are living with type 1 or type 2 diabetes.

23 hours ago
Phys.org / People have an inherent preference for counterclockwise motion, study reveals

Researchers in Spain and Japan tested a broad range of pedestrians in varying group sizes to see whether there were any patterns in their turning behaviors, and what factors influenced them, if any. It turns out that the ...

Jun 10, 2026
Phys.org / Possible dark matter-deficient twins discovered in the Fornax Cluster

Astronomers have identified a possible new example of one of the universe's strangest galaxy types: galaxies that appear to contain little or no dark matter. The newly studied pair, FCC 224 and FCC 240, on the outskirts of ...

Jun 9, 2026
Phys.org / Nuclear clocks tick for the first time

Two independent research teams have achieved a longstanding goal in physics: building a working nuclear clock. The devices, developed by Beichen Huang and colleagues at Tsinghua University and by Luca Toscani De Col and colleagues ...

Jun 12, 2026
Phys.org / Cosmic acceleration holds up as new analysis rebuts slowdown claim

Our universe's expansion is still accelerating despite recent claims suggesting otherwise, an international team of astrophysicists says.

Jun 10, 2026
Phys.org / Aliens might exist, but there are three reasons why they're not visiting us

The United States government's recent release of hundreds of previously classified unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) cases spanning the 1940s to the present, along with the new Steven Spielberg movie, "Disclosure Day," ...

Jun 12, 2026
Phys.org / Why birds ignore Newton: New theory could sharpen models of flocks, crowds and cells

Birds in flocks, bacteria and cells: In many collective systems, individual elements respond to only part of their surroundings, seemingly defying Newton's third law of motion—action equals reaction. These exceptions are ...

Jun 12, 2026
Tech Xplore / Human understanding of AI can't keep up with its advancement, researchers say

In a recent editorial published in Science, Microsoft's chief scientific officer, Eric Horvitz, and researcher Robert West from the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL in Switzerland issue a stark warning ...

Jun 12, 2026
Phys.org / Collapsing stars could spawn mini-universes, offering new path to gravastars

Stars shine because atoms fuse in their interiors, releasing energy. When a very massive star has exhausted its nuclear fuel, radiation pressure can no longer provide sufficient counterforce to gravity. The star then collapses ...

Jun 11, 2026
Phys.org / Black hole feeding bursts may explain JWST's Little Red Dots in early universe

A new theoretical study may have cracked one of the most puzzling discoveries of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): Little Red Dots, spotted across the early universe. The paper, posted to the arXiv preprint server on ...

Jun 8, 2026