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Phys.org / New star activity catalog could sharpen hunt for habitable worlds

Searching for habitable worlds beyond our solar system involves more than having a planet orbit within its star's habitable zone, the region where temperatures could be just right for liquid water to exist on the surface. ...

3 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Long COVID rehab program helps with return to work and focus

Ten weeks of cognitive rehabilitation can help people with long COVID symptoms such as brain fog achieve their goals in returning to work and hobbies, a new clinical trial led by University College London (UCL) researchers ...

11 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Innovative soft robotic heart offers new way to study disease and test life-saving devices

Researchers at UNSW Sydney have developed a fully synthetic soft robotic heart that reproduces the complex movements and internal structures of the human heart, opening the door to better treatments, safer medical devices ...

11 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Fatty liver drives a more dangerous form of colorectal cancer spread, study reveals

Researchers at VIB and KU Leuven, with international partners, have uncovered how fatty liver disease can fuel the most aggressive form of metastatic colorectal cancer. The findings, which appear in the journal Nature, not ...

6 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Rare muscle disorder mutations reveal a precision medicine strategy

Scientists at the University of California San Diego have uncovered how genetic mutations cause a rare group of inherited neuromuscular disorders and identified promising new strategies to correct them, including a potential ...

11 hours ago
Phys.org / The universe is less uniform than we thought—cosmology may need a radical rethink

Modern cosmology rests on a simple assumption: If we look on large enough scales, matter should be distributed evenly, with no preferred direction within the cosmos. This is known as the cosmological principle.

9 hours ago
Phys.org / Black-box optimization weather intervention method supports future disaster mitigation

In recent years, the frequency of weather-related natural disasters—cyclones, torrential rains, floods—has increased as a consequence of global warming. These disasters cause billions of dollars in damage and losses every ...

12 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Custom prosthetic hand adapts to each user, decoding 19 gestures in real time

Most prosthetic hands today still struggle with a fundamental problem: No two amputees are the same, yet most devices are designed as if they are. That mismatch makes natural, intuitive control difficult, often turning what ...

11 hours ago
Phys.org / From fields to space farming, new tool detects crop drought stress before it's visible

When it comes to drought stress, timing can be the difference between saving a crop and losing it, whether in a greenhouse or in the high-stakes environment of future space missions. In a recent study published in Plant Phenomics, ...

12 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Voice changes measured with a mobile phone can signal a flare up in asthma or COPD

Voice changes, which can be recorded and measured with a mobile phone app, can signal a flare-up in symptoms for people with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a study published in ERJ Open ...

3 hours ago
Phys.org / Residential environment linked to subjective well-being through life-domain satisfaction

Well-being is increasingly regarded as an important indicator of societal progress, extending beyond economic growth to capture how people experience and evaluate their lives. It is also closely connected to health, longevity, ...

6 hours ago
Phys.org / What made trees possible? New research points to drought

A study is reframing a fundamental question in plant evolution: What made trees possible? Researchers from Cal Poly Humboldt, Yale University, the University of Hohenheim in Germany and the Czech Academy of Sciences set out ...

13 hours ago