A schematic showing the structure of the smart pen used to capture handwriting signals for Parkinson’s diagnostics. Credit: Jun Chen Lab/UCLA Every year, tens of thousands of people with signs…
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Top Latin American court urges “control” of fossil fuels in climate ruling
Latin America’s top court of human rights has decided for the first time that people have the right to a “healthy climate” without “dangerous” human interference, and has urged states…
Foreign medical residents fill critical positions at US hospitals, but are running into visa issues
A group of resident doctors talks with a senior doctor inside Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Credit:…
How dairy might disrupt your sleep and dreams
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Ebenezer Scrooge tried to wave away the ghost of Jacob Marley by blaming the apparition on “an undigested bit of beef … a crumb of cheese.”…
This photo of the nearby Sculptor galaxy spans 65,000 light years
This handout provided by the European Southern Observatory shows a detailed, thousand-colour image of the Sculptor Galaxy captured with the MUSE instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). Credit: ESO…
Best Canon lenses in 2025: Get the best lens for your Canon camera this Amazon Prime Day.
Looking to upgrade your Canon camera? Changing the lens can give it a new lease of life, but with so many lenses on offer, where do you start? With help…
How AI is helping researchers to demystify gut bacteria
VBayesMM uses paired microbiome-metabolite data, with microbial species as input variables and metabolite abundances as target variables. Credit: Briefings In Bioinformatics (2025). DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbaf30 Gut bacteria are known to be…
Quasi-periodic oscillations detected in X-ray binary SXP31.0
Smoothed dynamic power spectrum (top) and light curve (bottom) of NuObs1 in the 3–79 keV energy band. The light curve is binned with a 100 s time resolution. The dynamic power spectrum…
Missing beneficial bacteria in infant guts linked to rising asthma and allergy cases
Infant gut microbiome is crucial for immune development and influences the risk of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) later in life. Credit: Darryl Leja, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of…
Cerebral cortex synapses transmit signals more reliably than those in rear brain regions
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at Leipzig University’s Carl Ludwig Institute have discovered that in the cerebral cortex, synaptic signal transmission between brain cells functions very reliably even at low…
