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Medical Xpress / Bacterial enzyme may cause fatal heart conditions with pneumonia infections

Pneumonia is a disease that burdens the health care system with more than 1.2 million emergency room visits each year and more than 41,000 adult deaths in the United States. Worldwide, more than one million children under ...

Medical Xpress / How the brain prioritizes bodily signals in conscious awareness

A new study shows that visual and tactile impressions that are related to our own body are prioritized for reaching conscious awareness. This helps us understand how we develop the feeling that the body is our own—through ...

14 hours ago in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Brain enzyme that drives nicotine addiction and smoking dependence identified

Nicotine addiction remains one of the most persistent public health challenges worldwide, driven by changes in the brain that reinforce repeated use and make quitting extremely difficult. For decades, scientists have focused ...

16 hours ago in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Protein unties tangled DNA linked to hotspots of cancer mutations

New research published in Nature Communications has linked a normal cellular process to an accumulation of DNA mutations in cancer and identified cancer-driving mutations in an underexplored part of the genome.

13 hours ago in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / Meditating on the connectedness of life could help reunite a divided country. Here's how 'interbeing' works

The late Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh often emphasized the interconnectedness of everything in this world. He explained how meditation can change our perceptions about the things we encounter in our daily lives by ...

12 hours ago in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Ten versions of Earth's future can help us hunt for technosignatures

Searching for technosignatures—signs of technology on a planet that we can see from afar—remains a difficult task. There are so many different factors to consider, and we only have the technological capabilities to detect ...

13 hours ago in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Ancient genetics and modern pollutants could provide a clue to endometriosis risk

A new study suggests that certain genetic differences, passed down from ancient human ancestors, and exposure to common present-day chemicals could explain why some women are more likely to develop endometriosis.

14 hours ago in Genetics
Phys.org / How probation officers—criminal legal system's most diverse group—experience their roles

Probation officers—who supervise nearly 4 million people across the United States—are among the most visible faces of the criminal legal system (CLS). A new study led by UConn School of Social Work Assistant Professor ...

9 hours ago in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Ancient quakes along 150-mile fault system in Nepal revealed

A common misconception about research is that it takes place in climate-controlled labs with microscopes, beakers, and Bunsen burners. While that is true for many fields, obtaining geoscience data can demand fieldwork in ...

14 hours ago in Earth
Medical Xpress / Recent trial reveals promising therapy for aggressive brain cancer

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah (the U) participated in a clinical trial that found that a new combination treatment plan helped people with recurring grade 3 astrocytoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, ...

8 hours ago in Neuroscience
Phys.org / Iron-based magnetic material achieves major reduction in core loss

A research team from NIMS, Tohoku University and AIST has developed a new technique for controlling the nanostructures and magnetic domain structures of iron-based soft amorphous ribbons, achieving more than a 50% reduction ...

15 hours ago in Physics
Phys.org / Atomic switches bring molecular electronics closer to reality

Silver-based atomic switches that create stable electrical connections between individual molecules and electrodes have been developed by researchers from Japan, addressing a key challenge in wiring molecular electronics. ...

15 hours ago in Nanotechnology