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A randomized crossover study of 14 young adults playing virtual soccer for three hours found that sparkling water outperformed plain water on subjective fatigue, executive function performance, and pupil-based fatigue markers. Players on sparkling water also committed fewer fouls, though offensive and defensive metrics were unchanged.
Read the releaseResearchers from the University of Tsukuba surveyed a mountain road closed since 1991 using drone-mounted LiDAR and found it had been steadily accumulating rockfall debris. Their analysis shows steep slope areas supply 70-93 cubic meters of material per year - enough to fuel debris flows within a few decades, offering new baseline data for hazard forecasting.
Read the releaseOlivia Asher, a University of Georgia bioinformatics doctoral candidate using genomic sequencing to study mycorrhizal fungi, will spend this summer working with AIBS and SURA policy staff in Washington, D.C., gaining hands-on experience translating science into federal decision-making.
Read the releaseWhen the reality of work life collides with expectations, new graduates suffer what researchers call 'reality shock.' A Japanese study tracking 133 people across three surveys found that pre-employment optimism - specifically - drives the coping strategies that help workers build a professional identity and stay in their jobs.
Read the releaseDecades of crop yield data may overstate how much plant breeding has actually raised wheat's ceiling. A new study of 849 cultivars finds that roughly half the reported gains are maintenance work against pests and climate change - not true yield progress.
Read the releaseHominins collected crystals for at least 780,000 years without apparently using them for tools or weapons. Why? Experiments with chimpanzees are offering the first biological clues about this ancient human behavior.
Read the releaseA study from the University of the Sunshine Coast found that adolescents who pull back from social situations to avoid looking foolish in front of peers end up more isolated and report lower friendship quality. The instinct to hide, it turns out, is self-defeating.
Read the releaseIndium is the material that makes most transparent electrodes work, and it is increasingly scarce. A team at Sungkyunkwan University has built a functional replacement using nitrogen-doped tin oxide that not only avoids indium entirely but pushes device lifetime more than twice as long as the conventional version.
Read the releaseWhen a toxic algal bloom consumed South Australia's coastline for an entire year, it did not just kill fish and close beaches. A new survey of more than 600 residents found it infected the mental landscape too - with 69% reporting persistent, intrusive thoughts about the crisis.
Read the releasePollen exposure is linked to poorer exam results taken at the end of secondary (high) school (matriculation), with the effects especially noticeable in subjects involving maths, including physics and chemistry, finds research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. Recognition is needed of the adverse effects of fluctuations in pollen levels on academic performance and the potential impact on a student’s future prospects, conclude the researchers. Allergic rhinitis, caused by an allergic reaction to ...
Read the releaseAround 6 deaths a year are linked to clubbing in the UK, finds a 15 year retrospective study published online in Emergency Medicine Journal. Physical assault, including stabbings and head trauma, or too much ecstasy (MDMA) are the primary causes, the findings indicate. UK nightclubs attract close to 100 million visitors every year and boast a revenue of just under £1 billion. Risky behaviours while clubbing are common, but current evidence on deaths associated with nightclubs is limited to small case series or isolated critical incidents, with no national data, ...
Read the releaseEmbargoed copy of the research paper available on request Scientists have analysed more than 40 years of astronomical data to uncover evidence that the Sun’s internal structure subtly changes from one solar cycle minimum to the next. Publishing their findings today (London - 00.01hrs on 4 March) in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, researchers from the University of Birmingham and Yale University reveal that even small differences in solar magnetic activity produce detectable changes inside the Sun. Every 11 years, the Sun goes through a cycle of magnetic activity and is at its calmest during ‘solar ...
Read the releaseAccording to the model, among all vegetation types, urban trees make the greatest contribution to offsetting carbon dioxide emissions in cities. On some summer days, their absorption can cover the emissions from Munich's urban traffic and even exceed them at times. Because soil respiration exceeds photosynthesis, grassy areas release more carbon dioxide than they bind and are therefore considered a source of CO₂ on an annual basis. Jia Chen, professor of environmental sensing and modeling, and her doctoral student Junwei Li conducted biospheric field measurements in urban parks from April 2024 to February 2025, to validate their model results. Trees as CO₂ sinks, grasslands ...
Read the releaseA Pennington Biomedical researcher argues in the Journal of the American Heart Association that avocados and mangos show specific, measurable benefits for artery health - part of a broader push to treat food as a clinical tool.
Read the releaseOchsner Children's CEO Dana Bledsoe has joined the Make-A-Wish Texas Gulf Coast and Louisiana board of directors, deepening a formal partnership launched in April 2025 that has already granted wishes to 12 children with critical illnesses.
Read the releaseA University of Washington team thinned about 150 acres on Cle Elum Ridge in Washington state and found snowpack increased by 30 percent on north-facing slopes. The experiment suggests that wildfire mitigation and water security can be pursued through the same management action.
Read the releaseThe ISSCR named Alexander Meissner, director at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, recipient of the 2026 Momentum Award, citing his work on epigenetic regulation of pluripotency, the development of the ScoreCard assay, and institutional leadership at the Max Planck Institute. Kathrin Plath and Joseph Wu received honorable mentions.
Read the releaseSylvia Hurtado, Distinguished Professor at UCLA and longtime AERA fellow, has been voted president-elect of the American Educational Research Association. Her research focuses on campus racial climate, equity for historically marginalized groups, and STEM pathways. She will assume the presidency after AERA's 2027 Annual Meeting.
Read the releaseYale researcher Daniel Karell and colleagues tested 1,912 participants who read GPT-4o or Wikipedia summaries of two historical events and then reported political opinions. Default GPT-4o summaries produced more liberal responses than Wikipedia (3.57 vs 3.47 on a 5-point scale), with explicitly liberal framings pushing scores to 3.67. The paper raises questions about AI bias shaping public historical understanding.
Read the releaseA Wake Forest University analysis of the INVEST in Bone Health trial found that among older adults losing weight, those wearing weighted vests and spending more time standing or stepping showed positive changes in bone mineral density, while vest-wearers who remained sedentary saw no benefit. The study appears in Frontiers in Aging.
Read the releaseJohns Hopkins scientists fired projectiles at Deinococcus radiodurans to simulate Mars-ejection pressures up to 2.4 gigapascals - 30 times the deepest ocean pressure - and found 60 percent of bacteria survived, with gene expression showing active cellular repair. The result supports the theoretical possibility of microbial transfer between planets.
Read the releaseWhen USC researchers transplanted gut bacteria from older, post-reproductive mice into young females, the recipient animals showed rejuvenated ovarian gene expression, lower inflammatory markers, and higher reproductive success - an unexpected finding that points toward microbiome-based fertility therapies. The study appears in Nature Aging.
Read the releaseA University of Washington study using LiDAR and time-lapse photography on Cle Elum Ridge finds forest thinning recovers 12.3 acre-feet of snow water storage per 100 acres on north-facing slopes - equivalent to 15 Olympic swimming pools per square kilometer - offering wildfire managers a dual-benefit tool as climate-driven snowpack decline accelerates.
Read the releasePaleontologists from CUNY Brooklyn College and the Denver Museum of Nature & Science report the southernmost Purgatorius fossils ever found in Colorado's Denver Basin, recovered using labor-intensive screen-washing of Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary sediments, potentially filling a two-million-year gap in the primate family tree's geographic record.
Read the releaseA free World Water Day webinar on March 18, hosted by Applied Microbiology International, will bring together a Nobel co-laureate and leading development scholar to examine how the global water crisis intersects with gender inequality - and the microbiology that underpins scalable solutions.
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