Long-Life Aluminum Ion Batteries. Large batteries for long-term storage of solar and wind power are key to integrating abundant and renewable energy sources. Researchers have designed a cost-effective and environment-friendly aluminum-ion (Al-ion) battery.
https://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2025/january/new-design-makes-aluminum-batteries-last-longer.html
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Uncontrolled rocket debris falling back to Earth poses a small, but serious risk to planes, especially over busy areas like Europe or Asia. There's a 26% chance each year of airspace being disrupted.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-84001-2
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New drug shows promise in restoring vision for people with nerve damage: Drug, LL-341070, enhanced mices brain's ability to repair damaged myelin— the protective sheath around nerve fibers
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1071701
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About 1 in 8 US adults has tried or uses GLP-1 medication with 1 in 4 of those for weight loss but muscle loss can account for up to 40% of total weight loss. Scientists discover molecule that reverses muscle loss in mice, suggest that adding drug to boost this molecule may help prevent muscle loss.
https://www.salk.edu/news-release/boosting-this-molecule-could-help-retain-muscle-while-losing-fat/
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New Study Reveals How a ‘Non-Industrialised’ Style Diet Can reduce Risk of Chronic Disease. In just three weeks the diet:Promoted weight loss.
Decreased bad cholesterol by 17%. Reduced blood sugar by 6%.
reduced C-reactive Protein (a marker of inflammation and heart disease) by 14%.
https://www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025/new-study-reveals-how-a-non-industrialised-style-diet-can-reduce-risk-of-chronic-disease.html
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New research has found that children whose parents were moderately or very harsh tended to exhibit worse emotion regulation, lower self-esteem, and more peer relationship problems. They also scored lower on prosocial behavior scales.
https://www.psypost.org/harsh-parenting-linked-to-poorer-emotional-and-social-outcomes-in-children
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Scientists have identified a strain of bacteria that can break down and transform at least three types of forever chemicals (PFAS), and, perhaps even more crucially, some of the toxic byproducts of the bond-breaking process.
https://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2025/01/bacteria-found-to-eat-forever-chemicals.html
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Is AI making us dumb and destroying our critical thinking | AI is saving money, time, and energy but in return it might be taking away one of the most precious natural gifts humans have.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/ai-hurting-our-critical-thinking-skills/
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In Earth’s mantle there are two huge ‘islands’ with the size of a continent. These regions are hotter than the surrounding cold sunken tectonic plates, and that they are ancient: at least half a billion years old. These observations contradict the idea of a well-mixed and fast flowing Earth’s mantle
https://www.uu.nl/en/news/subterranean-islands-strongholds-in-a-potentially-less-turbulent-world
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Damaging mega-droughts are spreading around the world. Research shows 'hotspot' regions included the western USA, central and eastern Mongolia, and particularly southeastern Australia, where the data overlapped with two well-documented multi-year ecological droughts.
https://ist.ac.at/en/news/the-megadroughts-are-upon-us/
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Exercise improves brain function, possibly reducing dementia risk | Study confirms positive effects of exercise on insulin signaling proteins from the brain
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1071574
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Life expectancy in the Gaza Strip almost halved since the war started - Study found the average life expectancy dropped from 75.5 years to 40.5 years (-46.3%), and the decrease was higher in men (-51.6%) than in women (-38.6%). May be underestimated as excludes missing people and indirect effects.
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/life-expectancy-in-the-gaza-strip-almost-halved-since-the-war-started
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Men lose half their emotional support networks between 30 and 90, study finds. Men’s networks were smaller when they were married, suggesting a consolidation of emotional reliance on their spouse. Men who grew up in warmer family environments had larger emotional support networks in adulthood.
https://www.psypost.org/men-lose-half-their-emotional-support-networks-between-30-and-90-decades-long-study-finds/
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2 in 3 people with Long COVID likely still have their symptoms in the 2nd year after infection.
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/2-in-3-people-with-long-covid-likely-still-have-their-symptoms-in-the-second-year-after-infection
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There was a 65% increase in the number of children and young people being admitted to general acute medical wards in hospitals in England because of a mental health concern between 2012 and 2022
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/jan/significant-rise-mental-health-admissions-young-people-last-decade
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Ultrahigh Specific Strength by Bayesian Optimization of Carbon Nanolattices. Researchers have used machine learning to design nano-architected materials that have the strength of carbon steel but the lightness of Styrofoam.
https://news.engineering.utoronto.ca/strong-as-steel-light-as-foam-machine-learning-and-nano-3d-printing-produce-breakthrough-high-performance-nano-architected-materials/
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A study shows that cancer cells can transfer their defective mitochondria to the body's immune cells and weaken them, thus evading the body's immune response.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00176-2#ref-CR2
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A new study suggests that neighborhood poverty influences children's behavior. By age 3, children from wealthier families living in high-poverty neighborhoods were as likely to act out as their peers born into poorer families
https://news.uga.edu/being-born-into-poverty-negatively-affects-childrens-behavior/
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Smokers unlikely to quit with just willpower, say researchers. Those using e-cigarettes, medication or heated tobacco products are more likely to successfully give up smoking.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/24/smokers-unlikely-to-quit-with-just-willpower-say-researchers
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Blood pressure readings while lying down beat seated readings at predicting heart risks | Supine Blood Pressure and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/01/for-real-we-may-be-taking-blood-pressure-readings-all-wrong/
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Giant “Darth Vader” Sea Bug Discovered… In a Vietnamese Market: A New Species of Crustacean
https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/01/giant-darth-vader-sea-bug-discovered-in-a-vietnamese-market-a-new-species-of-crustacean/
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New AI picks up 97% of lung diseases, and can tell pneumonia from COVID-19 | A breakthrough new AI model is able to detect the presence of different lung diseases from ultrasound videos and it is even able to distinguish whether the abnormalities are due to pneumonia, COVID-19 or other conditions.
https://newatlas.com/medical-ai/ai-lung-disease/
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Battery cars on Britain’s roads are lasting as long as petrol and diesel cars, according to a study that has found a rapid improvement in electric vehicle reliability. Researchers based findings on 300m records from MOT data to estimate failure rates of all cars
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/24/electric-cars-lifespans-reach-those-of-petrol-and-diesel-vehicles-in-uk
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Alpha male baboons are the most stressed out among their peers. It’s not the time they spend fighting with other males that raises their stress hormone levels. Instead, it’s the effort they put into their female mates and directly correlated with the time they spent monopolizing fertile females.
https://today.duke.edu/2025/01/being-ladies-man-comes-price-alpha-male-baboons
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Los Angeles Needs to Fireproof Communities, Not Just Houses
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-build-a-fire-resistant-neighborhood/
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US college graduates live an average of 11 years longer than those who never finish high school, study finds
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1071409
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Trials indicate that certain psychedelics, combined with psychological support, may help alleviate symptoms of major depressive disorder, treatment-resistant depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder, with benefits for substance use disorders. However, there’re also several critical issues
https://www.fchampalimaud.org/news/potential-and-pitfalls-psychedelic-therapies-psychiatric-disorders
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Researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo and Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University said that they have developed a peptide that can bind to the spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2 to prevent COVID-19 infections.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/23/japan/science-health/peptide-prevention-covid-19/
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New AI stroke brain scan readings are twice as accurate as current method: « New AI software can read the brain scans of patients who have had a stroke, to more accurately pinpoint when it happened and help doctors work out whether it can be successfully treated. »
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/259073/new-ai-stroke-brain-scan-readings/
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Microplastics in the bloodstream can induce cerebral thrombosis by causing cell obstruction and lead to neurobehavioral abnormalities in mice. Human health is being threatened by microplastic pollution. It is detected in bloodstream and multiple tissues of humans, disrupting physiology of organs.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr8243
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