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Medical Xpress / Spouted baby food pouches are more like sugary drinks/smoothies than nutritious food

Commercial baby foods in spouted pouches—intended to boost nutritional intake from the age of 6 months onward—are often more like sugary drinks and smoothies than nutritious food, finds an analysis of U.K. products, published ...

6 hours ago
Phys.org / 'Now boarding' … 240,000 miles from Earth, at the moon's first airport

The moon's getting its first airport, and it's about to get busy. Within the next two decades, NASA's planned Gateway—humanity's first lunar spaceport—may become a bustling hub for Orion crew capsules, lunar landers, cargo ...

16 hours ago
Medical Xpress / AI helps identify regulatory hub for aging in hematopoietic stem cells

Stem cells possess the unique ability to self-renew and transform into different types of cells. For example, rare hematopoietic stem cells found in bone marrow can become any type of blood cell. Throughout life, they can ...

13 hours ago
Phys.org / Closing the gap between wildfire modeling and real-world response

Canada's 2023 wildfire season burned more than 18.5 million hectares (45.7 million acres), an area larger than Greece. As fires like these grow more frequent and unpredictable, a team of UBC Okanagan researchers has taken ...

7 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Major security weaknesses found in leading open-weight LLMs

Safety protections built into some of the world's most widely used artificial intelligence (AI) models can be stripped away with alarming ease, according to a new international study.

14 hours ago
Phys.org / Habitat changes found to be no deterrent for some Fijian native bees

While extreme weather and habitat changes can spell doom for many native animals, including insects, a different picture has emerged from a new study led by Flinders University. Long-running investigations into Fiji's native ...

7 hours ago
Medical Xpress / First evidence of mirror-like activity found in individual human neurons

In the early 1990s, researchers studying nonhuman primates discovered a population of brain cells they called "mirror neurons." These specialized brain cells fired when the animal performed an action and also when the animal ...

13 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Additional transfusion risk emerges for patients with tick-borne alpha-gal syndrome, beyond meat allergy

A new multi-institutional study led by researchers at Dartmouth Health and Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth suggests that alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-borne disease that can result in a chronic allergy to meat and animal ...

12 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Mucus-coated tumor spheres reveal potential targets to curb colorectal cancer spread

Researchers from the University of Turku in Finland and Gustave Roussy Institute in France have discovered a molecular mechanism that regulates whether cells in an aggressive colorectal cancer are conventional or inverted ...

12 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Information encoded in a beam of light can survive real-world atmospheric turbulence

Researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and the University of Bordeaux in France have demonstrated a new way to send information through the atmosphere without correcting for the distortions that normally ...

13 hours ago
Phys.org / Listening for extinction: Study finds areas of critical concern for northern spotted owls

Northern spotted owl populations are approaching or have already crossed functional extinction across large areas of the Pacific Northwest, a new study, published in Ecological Applications found. Researchers used artificial ...

13 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Autism empathy measures may be flawed, researcher argues

There is a widespread belief that people with autism are less empathetic. In other words, that they are less able to put themselves in someone else's shoes. But is that actually true? Autism researcher Dr. Lisa Krijnen is ...

7 hours ago