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An analysis of the Communio data found that higher levels of religious involvement and positive family experiences during childhood were associated with increased religious participation in adulthood. Children who frequently discussed their faith with their parents tended to attend religious services more often as adults and were more likely to pass on their faith to their children. The paper was published in. Religious Science Research Journal. Religion and spirituality are central parts of many people’s lives. They form people’s moral frameworks, inform their commitments, and guide their actions, while supporting many aspects of their health and well-being. As concepts, religiosity…
Written by Deborah Brennan, CalMatters Sewage and chemicals create a layer of foam bubbling along parts of the Tijuana River after a rainy day in San Diego, Nov. 21, 2025. Cinematography: Adriana Heldiz, Calmaters This article was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for our newsletter. San Diego leaders are trying to speed up a solution to Tijuana River sewage pollution while examining the scope of the problem. On Thursday, community activists, medical experts and environmental experts from the Tijuana River Coalition provided an update on the toxic pollution plaguing south San Diego. And they outlined efforts to solve the…
Get the health information and medications you need every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Looks like summer has arrived, as the air conditioner at STAT’s New York bureau broke. Happy Friday. Latest information on Hantavirus cruise ship story Hantavirus outbreaks on cruise ships will likely take weeks or months to resolve. The latest update from STAT’s Helen Branswell. Some takeaways from the World Health Organization’s latest briefing: The MV Hondius has moved to the Canary Islands, WHO officials are working to remove people from the ship, and the United States (which famously completed its withdrawal…
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have proposed a surprising idea that links the deepest laws of physics to the existence of life itself. Their work suggests that the fundamental constants of the universe fall within very narrow ranges that allow liquids to flow in the way that living cells depend on. If those constants were even slightly different, water, blood, and other life-sustaining fluids might behave very differently, and complex life might never have emerged. This study scientific progress In 2023, the study builds on previous work by physicist Kostya Trachenko and others that showed that a liquid’s…
Get the latest news in health technology, digital health and health AI with this weekly overview. News for the week from May 4th to May 8th. Tether unveils medical AI that runs on mobile phones and wearables Tether on Thursday announced QVAC MedPsy, a new class of language models that can run directly on smartphones, wearables and other devices. The company says the platform’s focus on efficiency reduces both computing requirements and reliance on remote cloud infrastructure. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said in a statement that the announcement focused on “improving efficiency at the model level” rather than “increasing size,”…
Bacteria are constantly evolving to survive. One major impact is that many harmful microorganisms have become resistant to antibiotics and disinfectants, posing serious problems for medicine and public health. However, not all bacteria are dangerous. In fact, many of them are essential to keeping the human body healthy. Scientists are currently studying whether it is possible to influence the behavior of bacteria, rather than simply destroying them completely. In the human mouth, bacteria communicate almost constantly. It is home to about 700 species of bacteria, many of which exchange chemical messages through a process called quorum sensing. Some of these…
Recent research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences It suggests that large-scale language models have a hard time accurately estimating the moral values of people outside Western societies. Scientists have found that these artificial intelligence systems tend to overestimate the moral concerns of Western countries while underestimating the values of non-Western cultures. This pattern provides evidence that relying on these models to measure world opinion can unintentionally reinforce cultural stereotypes. Large-scale language models are advanced artificial intelligence systems trained on vast amounts of text data to generate human-like sentences and answer complex questions. Common examples include ChatGPT,…
Short QT syndrome is a genetic disorder that causes sudden cardiac death at a young age. mutation of SLC4A3 Genes that regulate bicarbonate and chloride exchange were recently reported as a potential cause. An international research team, including a group from Germany’s Ruhr University Bochum, investigated this possibility. Researchers have discovered how different variants of the gene affect heart muscle cells. Specifically, the pH level increased and the flow of ion channels changed. This insight could help provide better personal care to people suffering from the disease. This study was published in the European Heart Journal on March 5, 2026.…
ZoomRx’s analysis found that cancer drugs with high physician awareness at the time of release maintain an advantage over drugs that are not yet widely recognized even after they are on the market. Launch tracking service ZoomRx analyzed 44 brands across more than 10 cancer indications. The company divided drugs into four categories based on brand penetration 24 months after launch. Products in the top categories had a 25-point support awareness advantage at launch. Based on this research, ZoomRx stated that pre-launch visibility is critical to success. Healthcare professionals (HCPs) began hearing about top-performing molecules 18 to 24 months before…
In this year’s race for a U.S. Senate seat, one candidate is trying to differentiate himself among Republican primary candidates by opposing carbon capture and sequestration. Incumbent State Treasurer John Fleming, a Minden native, hopes to rally to block carbon storage projects across the state and align himself with opponents of the technology in rural areas where such projects are planned or proposed. A number of legislative measures have been proposed to require local approval to drill the wells needed to store carbon dioxide underground, but have so far failed. Mr. Fleming attended the hearing in support of them. “I…