A vial of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is on display at the Lubbock Health Department Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas. Credit: AP Photo/Mary Conlon, File There…
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Errors in attention adaptively impact spatial working memory, study finds
Attention error and spatial working memory experimental paradigm. Credit: Nature Human Behaviour (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02109-5 Humans are known to rapidly adapt their mental processes and behavior based on feedback they…
More than 1.2 million medical device side-effect reports not submitted within legal timeframe, analysis finds
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain More than 1.2 million medical device adverse event reports were not submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) within the deadline set by federal…
Discovery at Las Chapas could be the oldest stone carvings of human origin
The Department of Culture, Education, and Historical Heritage has announced the discovery of carvings on a gabbro stone block which could date from 200,000-years-ago. The carvings were found during excavations…
Novel spatial immune-based risk prediction platform can predict hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence
Spatial multi-omics analysis reveals associations between NK cell distribution and HCC recurrence. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI:10.1038/s41586-025-08668-x A research team led by Prof. Sun Cheng from the University of Science and…
“Mental Booster Shots” Strengthen Resistance to Fake News
Summary: New research reveals that short, memory-focused interventions can help individuals resist misinformation more effectively and retain these skills over extended periods, acting as “psychological booster shots.” The study evaluated…
Middle age is a time when women are vulnerable to eating disorders
“No one expects a grown woman in her 40s to have an eating disorder. That’s for teenagers, right? Well, guess what – it happened to me.” Alexa, a 44-year-old real…
The Aussie diet in 2030 will have less fruit and more junk food if current trends continue
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Aussies are falling short of key national health targets, according to scientists who have used an innovative technique to forecast future dietary trends. New research from…
Trump is cancelling a republican project to wipe out AIDS, putting millions of lives at risk
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Enormous progress has been made in tackling the global HIV epidemics over the past two decades. The number of people dying from HIV-related causes has fallen…
LiDAR study reveals 5,000-year-old fortified settlements
Archaeologists using LiDAR have discovered 5,000-year-old fortified settlements in Romania’s Neamț County. Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), is a method of remote sensing using light in the form of a…
