Drop in opioid use in Australia offset by spike in private scripts

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Australia’s use of prescription opioid analgesics, such as oxycodone, morphine, or tramadol, dropped by 21% between 2015 and 2022, despite a substantial increase in private scripts…

Study analyzes EV charging station usage patterns nationwide

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Electric vehicles (EVs) represent a promising mode of transportation that can help the United States reduce its carbon emissions. But barriers such as the high cost…

New loss and damage fund boss urged to keep costs down

Spending on consultants, business-class plane tickets and a deputy executive director was questioned at the fund’s latest board meeting With just $69 million in the bank account of the fledgling…

Dogs Using Soundboards Show Intentional Communication

Summary: Dogs trained to use soundboards can combine two-word buttons purposefully to communicate needs and desires, rather than randomly or by imitating their owners. Researchers analyzed over 260,000 button presses…

Understanding the dynamics behind prey motion and the performance of non-kin group hunting predators in the open ocean. – Functional Ecologists

In our latest post, Korbinian Pacher takes us out to hunt as he share insight behind the paper: “Evidence for a by-product mutualism in a group hunter depends on prey…

Hypnosis is not just a parlor trick or TV act − science shows it helps with anxiety, depression, pain, PTSD and sleep disorders

We’ve all seen it, typically on television or on stage: A hypnotist selects a few members from the audience, and with what seems to be little more than a steely…

Job Seekers Targeted in Mobile Phishing Campaign

A sophisticated mobile phishing campaign targeting job seekers intended to install dangerous malicious software on their phones was revealed Tuesday by security researchers. The campaign discovered by Zimperium zLabs targets…

Portugal dreams of becoming medical cannabis hub

A Tilray worker seals cannabis flowers in a bag at their Portugal farm. “We should be the new El Dorado of medical cannabis production,” said agronomist Jose Martins as dozens…

Study finds increased survival with nivolumab plus ipilimumab vs. chemo for metastatic colorectal cancer

For patients with microsatellite-instability-high (MSI-H) or mismatch-repair-deficient (dMMR) metastatic colorectal cancer who had not previously received systemic treatment, progression-free survival is longer with nivolumab plus ipilimumab than with chemotherapy, according…

Automated assembly speeds up the creation of hybrid robots