Six Binghamton University, State University of New York faculty members have received more than $4.4 million in National Science Foundation CAREER Awards to pursue groundbreaking research in materials science, psychology, high-tech manufacturing and more.

Late nights, alcohol, and smoking on weekends may be doing more than disrupting your Monday mornings, they could be triggering a newly identified sleep health concern known as ‘social apnea’, warn researchers from Flinders University.

Published in the prestigious American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the international study introduces social apnea as a novel trend in sleep medicine referring to the weekend spike in Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) severity, driven by lifestyle choices and irregular sleep patterns.

Social and environmental factors may influence fitness ahead of surgery reveals research led by Lancaster University.

The study was led by PhD researcher Dr Donna Shrestha from Lancaster Medical School, where her research focuses on health inequalities in the surgical patient pathway. She is also a senior resident doctor with a specialist interest in colorectal surgery.

The research published in PLOS ONE suggests that patients from more socioeconomically deprived areas may have lower cardiorespiratory fitness at the time of preoperative assessment.

A new international study led by a research team from Tel Aviv University has revealed that simply repeating an image, whether authentic or AI-generated, increases the likelihood that we will believe it is real.