https://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Secondhand fashion is booming, yet most brides—even those who care about sustainability—still choose to walk down the aisle in a new wedding dress. https://phys.org/news/2026-01-brides-reluctant-secondhand.html Economics & Business Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:42:59 EST news686839322 It's almost time to dust off the Halloween decorations and adorn the house with all manner of spooky things, including the classic polyester spider webs. Scientists reporting in ACS Nano have made their own version of fake spider silk, but this one consists of proteins and heals wounds instead of haunting hallways. The artificial silk was strong enough to be woven into bandages that helped treat joint injuries and skin lesions in mice. https://phys.org/news/2024-09-artificial-spider-silk-generation-medical.html Bio & Medicine Tue, 24 Sep 2024 11:50:03 EDT news646397402 Mathematicians at Loughborough University have turned their attention to a fascinating observation that has intrigued scientists and cocktail enthusiasts alike: the mysterious way ouzo, a popular anise-flavored liquor, turns cloudy when water is added. https://phys.org/news/2024-08-mathematicians-secrets-ouzo-cloudy.html Mathematics Thu, 22 Aug 2024 13:27:40 EDT news643552049 Wound infections, particularly associated with burns, are a serious health problem causing high morbidity and mortality. Aside from hygiene and basic dressings, antibiotics are the standard treatment for serious wounds. However, cost, access, and emerging bacterial resistance, make their use difficult and ineffective, especially when a course of treatment is not completed. Globally, a huge number of deaths occur because of infected burns especially in low- and middle-income countries, and most commonly in rural areas. https://phys.org/news/2024-08-tea-brews-silver-nanoparticles-wound.html Bio & Medicine Mon, 05 Aug 2024 08:58:39 EDT news642067116 Wound dressings should provide sterile coverage, protect the wound, and adhere reliably, while still allowing for painless removal. It is essential that the process of skin renewal remains undisturbed. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-polymer-wound-painless-residue-free.html Polymers Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:46:03 EDT news637861562 Hydrogels are popular for use in skin ailments and tissue engineering. These polymer-based biocompatible materials are useful for their abilities to retain water, deliver drugs into wounds, and biodegrade. However, they are complicated to manufacture and not very resilient to external forces like rubbing against clothing, sheets, or wound dressings. They are also not inherently able to battle bacterial infections, so they are often infused with antimicrobial drugs or metal ions, which can cause antibiotic resistance and negative effects on cell growth. https://phys.org/news/2024-04-wound-treatment-hydrogel-infused-amino.html Biochemistry Tue, 02 Apr 2024 11:00:02 EDT news631266198 An interdisciplinary team of Cornell researchers has identified an innovative way to harness the antioxidant and antibacterial properties of the botanical compound lawsone to make nanofiber-coated cotton bandages that fight infection and help wounds heal more quickly. https://phys.org/news/2024-02-nanofiber-coated-cotton-bandages-infection.html Bio & Medicine Thu, 08 Feb 2024 14:25:04 EST news626624701 Millimeter by millimeter, new tissue makes its way through a wound until it has closed a skin lesion. Soon, in the best case, there is nothing left to see of a knee scrape, a finger cut or a burn blister. Not so with chronic wounds, though: If the injury has not healed after four weeks, there is a wound healing disorder. Sometimes, seemingly harmless tissue damage can develop into a permanent health problem or even blood poisoning. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-bandage-wound-probiotic-bacteria-combat.html Cell & Microbiology Thu, 02 Nov 2023 09:56:28 EDT news618137783 Researchers have invented a nano-thin superbug-slaying material that could one day be integrated into wound dressings and implants to prevent or heal bacterial infections. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-ultrathin-nanotech-tackle-antibiotic-resistance.html Bio & Medicine Tue, 12 Sep 2023 16:23:04 EDT news613754581 Deepak Verma from Chulalongkorn University and his international team of researchers are exploring ways to enhance chitosan using techniques like adding photosensitizers, dendrimers, and chemical modifications. They also surveyed the use of chitosan nanoparticles for medical purposes, notably wound dressings. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-advancements-sustainable-chitosan-based-nanocomposites-wound.html Bio & Medicine Tue, 22 Aug 2023 13:54:42 EDT news611931281 A nanocellulose wound dressing that can reveal early signs of infection without interfering with the healing process has been developed by researchers at Linköping University, Sweden. Their study, published in Materials Today Bio, is one further step on the road to a new type of wound care. https://phys.org/news/2023-04-wound-reveal-infection.html Bio & Medicine Tue, 18 Apr 2023 16:08:54 EDT news601052930 For all the talk of the pandemic having relaxed our workplace dress code, the truth is that you would be best not turn up in loungewear in certain sectors, even in 2022. Research we conducted in the French banking industry confirmed the workplace still favours job candidates with a conservative look. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-bank-tattoos-piercings.html Economics & Business Thu, 15 Dec 2022 13:10:05 EST news590324740 As religious diversity grows in Quebec, the province's prisons are having to adapt to inmates' diverse religious needs. Some inmates turn to alternative faiths such as Islam or Buddhism. Why do they do this? What do they get out of it? https://phys.org/news/2022-11-qa-islam-buddhism-prisoners.html Social Sciences Wed, 30 Nov 2022 10:06:04 EST news589025161 As consumers seek fewer preservatives in packaged food—while the environment needs less plastic waste—Cornell scientists are finding ways to make active packaging materials with a biologically-derived polymer that helps salad dressings, marinades and beverages last longer in the fridge. https://phys.org/news/2022-04-greening-food-nourishes-environment.html Biotechnology Wed, 13 Apr 2022 14:38:19 EDT news569079497 Researchers have developed smart wound dressings with built-in nanosensors that glow to alert patients when a wound is not healing properly. https://phys.org/news/2021-06-smart-wound-built-in-sensors.html Bio & Medicine Mon, 28 Jun 2021 08:20:02 EDT news544087199 For centuries, dress codes have been used to maintain specific social roles and hierarchies. But fashion and style have also traditionally served another purpose: to express new ideals of individual liberty, rationality and equality, according to new research by Stanford legal scholar Richard Thompson Ford. https://phys.org/news/2021-02-codes-reveal-social-aspirations-political.html Social Sciences Thu, 11 Feb 2021 09:27:14 EST news532258030 When you exclaim "I love that!" about a favourite possession, do you really mean it? https://phys.org/news/2020-06-relationship-mutual.html Social Sciences Tue, 16 Jun 2020 11:10:05 EDT news511524441 Pittsburgh research coauthored by team from the Department of Physics and Astronomy reveals that optical fields have the ability to modify electronic properties of a solid. https://phys.org/news/2020-06-optical-fields-electrons-metal.html Condensed Matter Fri, 12 Jun 2020 13:49:43 EDT news511188579 By conveniently and painlessly collecting data, wearable sensors create many new possibilities for keeping tabs on the body. In order to work, these devices need to stay next to the skin. In a study described in ACS Omega, researchers tweaked a widely used polymer to create a potential new adhesive to keep these sensors in place. https://phys.org/news/2020-02-adhesives-wearable-sensors.html Materials Science Wed, 05 Feb 2020 11:18:13 EST news500123890 Engineers have devised a fabric dressing whose thickness and elasticity can be custom-matched to specific areas of the body. https://phys.org/news/2019-07-synthetic-skin-aid-wound.html Bio & Medicine Mon, 01 Jul 2019 09:35:35 EDT news481192527 Scientists at Texas A&M University are harnessing the combined power of organic nanomaterials-based chemistry and a natural product found in crustacean exoskeletons to help bring emergency medicine one step closer to a viable solution for mitigating blood loss, from the hospital to the battlefield. https://phys.org/news/2019-05-chemists-nanoscale-bioabsorbable-wound.html Bio & Medicine Wed, 29 May 2019 11:50:35 EDT news478349425 Females who dress 'sexily' at their graduation are perceived as being less competent and are believed to have performed worse in their degree than their peers who dress more professionally, new research from the University of Surrey reports. https://phys.org/news/2019-01-female-sexy-capable-counterparts.html Social Sciences Tue, 29 Jan 2019 09:15:11 EST news467975706 Putting on clothes is a daily, mundane task that most of us perform with little or no thought. We may never take into consideration the multiple steps and physical motions involved when we're getting dressed in the mornings. But that is precisely what needs to be explored when attempting to capture the motion of dressing and simulating cloth for computer animation. https://phys.org/news/2018-11-machine-technique-simulating-day-task.html Computer Sciences Tue, 20 Nov 2018 15:55:05 EST news461951693 Men, unlike women, do not suffer from the 'changing room moment' when they suddenly realise they are too old for certain types of clothes, according to new research from the University of Kent. https://phys.org/news/2018-09-room-moment-men-age.html Social Sciences Thu, 06 Sep 2018 12:49:58 EDT news455456991 Nanofiber-based wound dressings loaded with vitamin D spur the production of an antimicrobial peptide, a key step forward in the battle against surgical site infections, or SSIs. https://phys.org/news/2018-07-nanofiber-based-wound-production-antimicrobial-peptide.html Bio & Medicine Thu, 05 Jul 2018 15:32:24 EDT news450023535 Employees subconsciously act and dress differently in modern open-plan office environments, according to a new study published in the journal Gender, Work and Organization. https://phys.org/news/2018-05-offices-image-conscious.html Social Sciences Tue, 01 May 2018 11:01:40 EDT news444391290 Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have developed new wound dressings that dramatically accelerate healing and improve tissue regeneration. The two different types of nanofiber dressings, described in separate papers, use naturally-occurring proteins in plants and animals to promote healing and regrow tissue. https://phys.org/news/2018-03-animals-tissue.html Biotechnology Mon, 19 Mar 2018 04:19:50 EDT news440651980 By some estimates, bacterial strains resistant to antibiotics—so-called superbugs - will cause more deaths than cancer by 2050. https://phys.org/news/2017-08-bacterial-biofilms-begone.html Materials Science Tue, 01 Aug 2017 09:29:52 EDT news420798580 As an alternative to spending hundreds of dollars on a prom dress for one night, more and more online retailers are offering formal dress rentals as an attractive and often more affordable option. https://phys.org/news/2017-04-consumer-reveal-positive-renting-formal.html Economics & Business Tue, 04 Apr 2017 07:00:01 EDT news410507341 Research by the University of Southampton has called into question a centuries-old story behind a dress that once belonged to one of the nation's most beloved novelists – Charlotte Brontë. https://phys.org/news/2016-06-tale-famous-bronte.html Social Sciences Tue, 28 Jun 2016 09:25:36 EDT news386324716