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Phys.org / Roman soldiers defending Hadrian's Wall were infected by parasites, study finds

A new analysis of sewer drains from the Roman fort of Vindolanda, close to Hadrian's Wall, has shown that the occupants were infected by three types of intestinal parasite—roundworm, whipworm, and Giardia duodenalis.

Dec 18, 2025 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Flu surge exposes missed COVID lessons

Three leading public health and social psychology experts warn that the U.K. is failing to apply vital lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic as flu cases surge with hospitals facing mounting winter pressures ahead of the planned ...

Phys.org / We discovered an ancient 'party boat' in the waters of Alexandria. Here's what might have happened on board

Beneath the shifting waters of Alexandria's eastern harbor, on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, lie the drowned remnants of a once-splendid city—ports, palaces and temples swallowed by the sea. Submerged by earthquakes and ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / New species are being discovered faster than ever before, study suggests

About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on Earth. Now celebrated as the father of modern taxonomy, he developed the binomial naming system ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Humans could have as many as 33 senses

Stuck in front of our screens all day, we often ignore our senses beyond sound and vision. And yet they are always at work. When we're more alert, we feel the rough and smooth surfaces of objects, the stiffness in our shoulders, ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / Hunting pressure drives female turkeys to produce more daughters, study suggests

Female turkeys could be running the roost for years to come. New research from the University of Georgia published in the Journal of Avian Biology found that the gender of turkey offspring may depend on whether the birds ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Biology
Phys.org / Earth's growing heat imbalance driven more by clouds than air pollution, study finds

Earth is taking in more energy than it releases back to space—a growing "energy imbalance" that is fueling global warming. A new study led by scientists at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Earth
Medical Xpress / Antiviral trial ties valacyclovir to faster cognitive decline

New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University Medical Center investigators, with co-authors across additional US centers, report greater cognitive worsening at 78 weeks with valacyclovir than with placebo among ...

Dec 22, 2025 in Medications
Phys.org / Ultrafast fluorescence pulse technique enables imaging of individual trapped atoms

Researchers at the ArQuS Laboratory of the University of Trieste (Italy) and the National Institute of Optics of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-INO) have achieved the first imaging of individual trapped cold atoms ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Physics
Phys.org / A molecular switch for green hydrogen: Catalyst changes function based on how it's assembled

Hydrogen production through water electrolysis is a cornerstone of the clean energy transition, but it relies on efficient and stable catalysts that work under acidic conditions—currently dominated by precious metals like ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Chemistry
Medical Xpress / Visual awareness study unlocks interplay between attention and consciousness

A new study led by Dr. Jiang Yi from the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the first clear evidence that visual awareness acts as a "conductor" that refines the speed, precision, and ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / Toddlers with facial tattoos: How Christianity expanded body art in Nile Valley civilizations

Ancient Nubians who lived between the 7th and 9th centuries tattooed the cheeks and foreheads of their infants and toddlers. This surprising discovery was made during a systematic survey of more than 1,000 human remains from ...

Dec 22, 2025 in Other Sciences