For real heart protection, the weekly exercise number climbs far beyond current advice

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Adults should aim to do between 560 and 610 minutes a week of moderate to vigorous physical activity to achieve a substantial reduction in the risk of heart attacks and stroke, suggest the findings of an observational study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

This is between three to four times higher than the current public health recommendation that adults do at least 150 minutes a week of moderate to vigorous physical exercise such as brisk walking, running, or cycling.

People who are less fit need to do slightly more exercise than those who are very fit to get the same cardiovascular benefits, the study suggests.

The researchers say that the current one-size-fits-all advice on exercise may need to be changed and replaced ...

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Innovative Mars rovers ‘swim’ through the sand

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The Mars rover with its innovative wheels, which can ‘swim’ through sand, modelled on a desert lizard. (Image: Marco Schmidt / Universität Würzburg)

Some animals can move efficiently beneath granular surfaces. These include the sandfish (Scincus scincus), a lizard native to the Sahara. It can burrow into the sand and then literally “swim” through the desert sand to hunt or escape predators.

The principles of movement underlying this ability have only been understood for a few years. Researchers at the University of Würzburg have now translated the sandfish’s locomotion mechanism into an initial technical solution—an innovative Mars rover that outperforms other models when moving on sand.

The team led by computer scientist Marco Schmidt, Professor for Embedded Systems and...

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How swarms of tiny light-controlled robots could revolutionize wound care

How swarms of tiny light-controlled robots could revolutionize wound care
Demonstration of algae swarming for tailored wound dressing. Credit: Science Advances (2026). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aed0994

Having a swarm of microbots moving across your body may sound like the stuff of a horror movie, but it could actually be the future of targeted drug delivery and advanced wound healing. Scientists have developed a way to use blue and red light as a remote control to assemble and disperse swarms of biohybrid microrobots that could one day transform how we treat injuries.

Details of the research are in a paper published in the journal Science Advances.

The microrobots come in two parts...

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Microcombs unlock 112Gbps wireless link at 560GHz for 6G

Photonic wireless transmission reaches 112 Gbps at 560 GHz using soliton microcombs
Conceptual illustration of microcomb-driven terahertz wireless communication. Optical frequency combs generated in a microresonator are used to produce low-noise terahertz signals via photomixing, enabling high-speed wireless transmission at 112 Gbps in the 560 GHz band for future 6G systems. Credit: Tokushima University

Researchers at Tokushima University have demonstrated single-channel wireless transmission at 112 Gbps in the 560 GHz band using soliton microcombs, marking a significant step toward next-generation 6G communications.

Conventional electronic technologies face fundamental limitations in generating stable high-frequency signals beyond 350 GHz, including reduced output power and increased phase noise...

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