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Children's mental health struggles may expose parents to stigma tied to parenting ideals
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Children's mental health struggles may expose parents to stigma tied to parenting ideals

Parents of children with mental health problems may experience stigma when the ideals that matter most to being considered a "good parent" are perceived as not being met, according to preliminary research led by Weill Cornell Medicine, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators.

📅 2026-10-14 11:20:13    •    Phys.org
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Scientists may have overlooked a hidden Alzheimer's culprit for decades
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Scientists may have overlooked a hidden Alzheimer's culprit for decades

For decades, scientists have focused on amyloid beta as a major culprit behind Alzheimer’s disease, spending billions of dollars developing treatments that have often delivered disappointing results. Now, researchers at UC Santa Cruz are drawing attention to a largely overlooked peptide called P3 that could also play a role in the disease. Previously believed to be harmless, P3 can form harmful-looking protein clumps even faster than amyloid beta and may also damage brain cells.

📅 2026-10-14 11:06:19    •    ScienceDaily
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Study finds overlooked 'forever chemicals' widespread in New Jersey tap water and bottled beverages
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Study finds overlooked 'forever chemicals' widespread in New Jersey tap water and bottled beverages

Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have found that a largely overlooked class of "forever chemicals" is widespread in New Jersey drinking water and commercially available bottled beverages, raising new questions about how these persistent contaminants are monitored and potentially introduced into everyday products.

📅 2026-10-14 11:00:06    •    Phys.org
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Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of the Moon’s two faces
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Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of the Moon’s two faces

Scientists may have solved a long-standing mystery about why the Moon’s two sides are so different, using samples collected from its farside for the first time. Their findings suggest that uneven heating from Earth's gravitational pull drove enormous flows of ancient magma, creating the dramatically different lunar landscapes we see today.

📅 2026-10-14 10:38:46    •    ScienceDaily
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Scientists discover how harmful “zombie cells” hide from the immune system
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Scientists discover how harmful “zombie cells” hide from the immune system

Scientists have discovered a protein that may help harmful aging cells hide from the immune system, allowing them to accumulate and fuel age-related health problems. Blocking the protein in mice reduced these cells and inflammation while improving blood sugar regulation and strength, offering a promising new direction for anti-aging research.

📅 2026-10-14 10:17:58    •    ScienceDaily
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Teenager's rare autoimmune disorder caused her to hallucinate a flying green dinosaur
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Teenager's rare autoimmune disorder caused her to hallucinate a flying green dinosaur

The patient: A 16-year-old girl in CaliforniaThe symptoms: The teenager was referred to an emergency department because she was having hallucinations, including seeing a flying green dinosaur and hearing voices telling her to hurt others. She also had a sense that she was being followed.In the emergency room, she was trembling and sweating and had a racing pulse and shallow, fast breathing. She did not have a fever, although she did have one at the hospital that had referred her.During her conversations with ER clinicians, the teen reacted to the vision of the dinosaur as though the creature were present in the room. She reported that she had experienced these hallucinations since seventh gr...

📅 2026-10-14 10:00:00    •    Live Science
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Ancient climate shifts may explain why today's flowering plants are so diverse
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Ancient climate shifts may explain why today's flowering plants are so diverse

The two warmest time periods on Earth in the past 140 million years drove both mass extinctions and explosions in plant diversity, according to researchers in Australia and Austria who say this could explain how flowering plants became dominant among land plants. The study, published in Nature Plants, examined fossilized pollen and spores to show that the mid-Cretaceous and early Cenozoic periods of extreme global warmth were central to plant evolution. This applies not only to flowering plants, but also to the other main land plant groups.

📅 2026-10-14 09:00:06    •    Phys.org
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Hundreds of whale calves have mysteriously died in Patagonia — and scientists are racing to find out why
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Hundreds of whale calves have mysteriously died in Patagonia — and scientists are racing to find out why

Since June, more than 300 southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) calves have died in Argentine Patagonia, in what scientists describe as an "exceptional" die-off. The preliminary figure already far exceeds the previous annual record set in 2012, when 113 southern right whale calves died — the highest number ever documented for the species, both locally and globally.Now, scientists are racing to figure out exactly what's causing the record-breaking die-off. Laboratory analyses of specimens that died this year tested positive for the pathogenic bacterium Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, environmental authorities in Chubut province told Live Science. E. rhusiopathiae was first identified in so...

📅 2026-10-14 09:00:00    •    Live Science
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Gigantic prehistoric snake discovered in India may have been one of the largest ever
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Gigantic prehistoric snake discovered in India may have been one of the largest ever

A massive prehistoric snake discovered in India may have rivaled the largest snake ever known. Called Vasuki indicus, the 47-million-year-old giant could have reached up to 50 feet long, making it comparable to the legendary Titanoboa. Scientists believe its enormous body made it a slow-moving ambush predator, similar to a modern anaconda.

📅 2026-10-14 05:44:39    •    ScienceDaily
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AI can act exactly like a human, but we still don't think it's conscious
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AI can act exactly like a human, but we still don't think it's conscious

A new study reveals that people draw a surprisingly sharp line between human consciousness and artificial intelligence, even when both behave identically. Researchers found that participants considered even the most responsive AI less conscious than the least responsive human. Yet when asked about "awareness" instead, people judged humans and AI much more similarly.

📅 2026-10-14 01:41:55    •    ScienceDaily
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Black women in food industries face systemic roadblocks
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Black women in food industries face systemic roadblocks

Lilly Jan was perplexed and a little annoyed. Last year, Jan, an assistant teaching professor in the Cornell Nolan School of Hotel Administration in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, was trying to collect information on food industry businesses owned by Black women.

📅 2026-10-14 01:40:01    •    Phys.org
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A planet 320 light-years away confirms what scientists long suspected
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A planet 320 light-years away confirms what scientists long suspected

Astronomers have discovered that a scorching-hot planet 320 light-years away shares a striking chemical similarity with its host star, providing the first direct evidence for a fundamental assumption about planet formation. The breakthrough could help scientists predict what distant rocky planets are made of and identify worlds with conditions favorable for life.

📅 2026-10-14 00:24:40    •    ScienceDaily
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AI reveals a hidden chemical shortcut that could turn CO2 into fuel
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AI reveals a hidden chemical shortcut that could turn CO2 into fuel

Scientists used artificial intelligence to uncover nearly 10,000 chemical reactions involved in transforming carbon dioxide into fuels and chemicals, revealing crucial pathways that traditional models had missed. The discovery dramatically improved predictions of CO2 conversion and uncovered a surprising hydrogen reaction that could inspire more efficient catalysts.

📅 2026-10-14 00:01:11    •    ScienceDaily
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Ultrashort laser pulses offer a new way to probe electrons' quantum geometry
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Ultrashort laser pulses offer a new way to probe electrons' quantum geometry

Researchers at Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the University of Regensburg have developed a method for determining, using light, a quantum property of electrons that has hitherto been difficult to access. The focus is on what is known as Berry curvature—a quantity that describes certain geometric properties of the quantum mechanical states of electrons. The researchers measured it in a layer of the semiconductor tungsten diselenide, just one atomic layer thick, using ultrashort laser pulses. The results have been published in the latest issue of the journal Nature Photonics.

📅 2026-10-13 23:40:02    •    Phys.org
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Scientists discover 'D-rex', a giant fungus from Chinese forests whose unique lineage dates back 65 million years
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Scientists discover 'D-rex', a giant fungus from Chinese forests whose unique lineage dates back 65 million years

Deep in the forests of Yunnan, China, scientists have discovered a "fungal giant" that challenges our understanding of how large fungi can become. The newly described species, Dianjunus rex, produces vertical fruiting bodies up to 50 cm (20 inches) high and weighing up to 2.2 kg (4.9 pounds)—the largest known within the phylum Ascomycota.

📅 2026-10-13 23:20:10    •    Phys.org
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