Doubling the number of sources of repeating fast radio bursts

Astronomers from McGill University are part of an international team that has discovered 25 new sources of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs), these explosions in the sky come from far…

Focusing on Mental Imagery Helps Teens Break Free From Negativity

Summary: A new study reports that negative rumination can be improved by using mental imagery for teens. The researchers reported that mental imagery improves negative affect and helps regulate the…

Schizophrenia Identified in 60 Seconds via Visual Fixation

Summary: Researchers have identified spatial and temporal abnormalities in spontaneous fixational saccades as a potential biomarker for cognitive and positive symptoms in schizophrenia. Researchers combined patient data of fixational eye…

Japan approves abortion pill for the first time

The abortion pill will become available in Japan for the first time after the health ministry approved the drug used to terminate early-stage pregnancy. Abortion is legal in Japan up…

European paediatricians sound alarm over medicine shortage

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Paediatricians from European countries have raised the alarm over a shortage of medicines for children including antibiotics and asthma treatment, warning it was endangering health. In…

Transgender women are still at risk for prostate cancer

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Transgender women keep their prostates even after gender-affirming surgery, but the extent to which they remain at risk of prostate cancer has been unclear. Now a…

Clouds carry drug-resistant bacteria across distances: study

Atmospheric monitoring could help pinpoint the sources of drug-resistant bacteria found in clouds, researchers said. For a team of Canadian and French researchers, dark clouds on the horizon are potentially…

Networks of silver nanowires seem to learn and remember, much like our brains

Credit: Shutterstock Over the past year or so, generative AI models such as ChatGPT and DALL-E have made it possible to produce vast quantities of apparently human-like, high-quality creative content…

Paris museum gives troubled NFT art scene a big showcase

The striking Pompidou center dominating the skyline in the Marais district of Paris. NFTs, the tokens of the crypto world linked to digital artworks, have been granted a show at…

Apple and Amazon ‘committed’ to big screen, says theaters boss

Michael O’Leary, chief of the National Association of Theater Owners, is confident people will return to movie houses. Movie theater owners are confident that previously streaming-focused tech giants Apple and…