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Medical Xpress / Demystifying the link between major depression and Alzheimer's disease
More than 7 million people in the United States live with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia (ADRD). Some risk factors for ADRD, like genetics, can't be controlled, but others can be treated. One of the most prevalent ...
Medical Xpress / Horseflies and wasps and jellyfish: How to stay safe from stings and bites this summer
Despite the glorious arrival of summer, there's definitely a sting in the season's tail—quite literally. Even in the UK, it's not just sunburn we need to watch out for. From nettles to jellyfish, summer brings a full cast ...
Medical Xpress / New drug offers hope of cure for hormone-driven high blood pressure
An international team of researchers led by Professor Morris Brown FRS at Queen Mary University of London found that Baxdrostat, a drug belonging to a new class of aldosterone synthase inhibitors, led to an average fall in ...
Medical Xpress / Parenthood not lessening loss for widowed people, 25 years of interviews suggest
Widowed parents who enjoy close relationships with their adult children still struggle with loneliness, according to the first study of its kind.
Phys.org / Researchers develop novel copper nanocluster for efficient and selective CO₂ conversion
In a significant step toward a carbon-neutral future, researchers from Tohoku University (Japan), the Tokyo University of Science (Japan), and Vanderbilt University (U.S.) have collaboratively developed an atomically precise ...
Medical Xpress / Feeling confident and in control when they're active boosts children's well-being
The well-being of children is under the spotlight in the UK, after a 2025 report from Unicef ranked the UK at 21 out of 36 wealthy countries in child well-being. With growing concerns about mental health, rising screen time, ...
Dialog / Short videos, long questions: Is there any link with children's attention?
Short-form video isn't new. Before TikTok, there was Vine—a platform that popularized 6-second video clips and helped redefine what it meant to go viral. The "Only a spoonful" of ice cream skit lives rent-free in many netizens' ...
Medical Xpress / Inequality, pollution, and democracy levels shape how quickly populations age: Study
A groundbreaking international study of 161,981 participants across 40 countries published in Nature Medicine reveals that air pollution, social inequality, and weak democratic institutions substantially accelerate aging. ...
Phys.org / Solar gravitational lens telescope is feasible way to get high resolution pictures of habitable exoplanet, study shows
Sometimes, in order to support an idea, you first have to discredit alternative, competing ideas that could take resources away from the one you care about. In the scientific community, one of the most devastating ways you ...
Phys.org / So what do the world's coastlines look like in 2025? Scientists revisit turn-of-the-century forecasts
At the dawn of the millennium, a group of eminent scientists began compiling a list of the threats they felt were most likely to impact the world's rocky shorelines over the coming quarter of a century.
Medical Xpress / How soup might soothe symptoms and support recovery from colds and flu
For generations, chicken soup has been a go-to remedy for people feeling under the weather. It holds a cherished place in many cultures as a comforting treatment for colds and flu. But is there any real science behind the ...
Medical Xpress / CDC says COVID-19 cases rise in 25 states
COVID-19 cases are on the rise again across the United States, with the biggest increases in parts of the South, Southeast and West Coast.
