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Dialog / Patients are more than participants: What meaningful engagement really looks like—and why it improves health research

When we talk about "patient engagement" in research, it can sound like a slogan on a grant application rather than something that changes people's lives.

Nov 28, 2025 in Medical research
Phys.org / Caribbean rainfall driven by shifting long-term patterns in the Atlantic high-pressure system, study finds

A new study published in Science Advances overturns a long-standing paradigm in climate science that stronger Northern Hemisphere summer insolation produces stronger tropical rainfall. Instead, a precisely dated 129,000-year ...

Nov 28, 2025 in Earth
Phys.org / The largest ice desert has the fewest ice nuclei worldwide

There are fewer ice nuclei in the air above the large ice surfaces of Antarctica than anywhere else in the world. This is the conclusion reached by an international research team led by the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric ...

Nov 28, 2025 in Earth
Tech Xplore / Researchers extend tensor programming to the continuous world

When the FORTRAN programming language debuted in 1957, it transformed how scientists and engineers programmed computers. Complex calculations could suddenly be expressed in concise, math-like notation using arrays—collections ...

Nov 28, 2025 in Computer Sciences
Medical Xpress / The 'Miracle Mineral Solution'—amazing cure or toxic illusion?

Miracle Mineral Solution, also known as MMS, has been marketed for years as a purported miracle cure for various conditions, including cancer, autism, and COVID-19. MMS is the marketing name for sodium chlorite (NaClO₂), ...

Nov 28, 2025 in Medical research
Phys.org / Nanostructured coatings physically puncture bacteria to prevent biofilm formation

Bacteria that multiply on surfaces are a major headache in health care when they gain a foothold on, for example, implants or in catheters. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have found a new weapon ...

Nov 28, 2025 in Nanotechnology
Phys.org / Long-term field data reveal warming cuts temperate forest NO and N₂O emissions by altering soil moisture

Researchers from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of California, Riverside, have investigated how the loss of forest soil gaseous nitrogen (NO, N2O, and N2) is affected ...

Nov 28, 2025 in Earth
Phys.org / Group 13 elements: The lucky number for sustainable redox agents?

Researchers from The University of Osaka created a reagent for important building-block molecules with an abundant main-group element, gallium. These early findings show that an organic gallium compound can display transition-metal-like ...

Nov 28, 2025 in Chemistry
Phys.org / Electric control of ions and water enables switchable molecular stickiness on surfaces

What if a surface could instantly switch from sticky to slippery at the push of a button? By using electricity to control how ions and water structure at the solid liquid interface of self-assembled monolayers of aromatic ...

Nov 28, 2025 in Nanotechnology
Medical Xpress / Specific brain activity patterns predict greater control over drinking behavior, study finds

Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is among the most widespread substance use disorders (SUDs) worldwide, characterized by an impaired ability to control the intake of alcohol. For many years, psychologists and psychiatrists have ...

Nov 27, 2025 in Neuroscience
Phys.org / New plastics designed to degrade on demand may help address global waste

Yuwei Gu was hiking through Bear Mountain State Park in New York when inspiration struck. Plastic bottles littered the trail and more floated on a nearby lake. The jarring sight in such a pristine environment made the Rutgers ...

Nov 28, 2025 in Chemistry
Phys.org / Astronomers unveil 400 sibling star clusters in the Milky Way

Stars usually form in clusters, which can also form in pairs or groups. Binary clusters (BCs) are defined as pairs of open clusters closely associated both in position and kinematics. They provide insight into how stars form ...

Nov 28, 2025 in Astronomy & Space