When someone's heart stops beating, their brain cells start dying within minutes. But sometimes, they can still come back from the dead.

A mixed methods study found statistically significant positive correlations between alterocentric business ethics and financial performance, Dr. Burkard Schemmel reports in ´European Journal of Management, Leadership and Health´.

"The study´s cluster analysis shows that 90% of companies expect economic impacts from alterocentric business models, indicating a general acceptance of ethical business values among European organizations. Qualitative outcomes identified implementation mechanisms: positive stakeholder relationships, enhanced organizational/operational reputation, engagement of employees, and mitigation of regulatory exposure.

Is there a scientific reason why the universe exists? In other words, what is the science of why there is anything at all, instead of only nothing?

The answer has to do with opposites. Scientists have found that the universe exists because it began with a slight imbalance between matter and antimatter. Particles of matter — that is, all of the electrons, protons and neutrons in the atoms and molecules of regular stuff — differ from particles of antimatter, which carry the opposite electric charge but are similar in many ways.

New computer simulations suggest the first magnetic fields that emerged after the Big Bang were much weaker than expected — containing the equivalent magnetic energy of a human brain.

Scientists have developed a brain-computer interface that can capture and decode a person's inner monologue.

The results could help people who are unable to speak communicate more easily with others. Unlike some previous systems, the new brain-computer interface does not require people to attempt to physically speak. Instead, they just have to think what they want to say.

A man with type 1 diabetes has become the first patient to produce his own insulin after receiving genetically engineered cell transplants, without needing drugs to prevent rejection.

The case, published this month in the New England Journal of Medicine, marks a potential breakthrough in the treatment of the disease, which affects 9.5 million people worldwide.

"Children and adolescents who exhibit harmful sexual behavior are more likely to have experienced adverse childhood experiences, including physical, sexual, or psychological violence," Susanne Bengtson and colleagues report in Forensische Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Supplement 2025.

"Cardiothoracic anaesthesiology: In current cardiac surgery practice most operative cardiac procedures are performed on cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). The processes of Initiating CPB, maintaining adequate perfusion and oxygenation during CPB, and terminating CPB involve intricate balances between the cardiac surgical, perfusion and anesthesia teams. Each of the stages presents the potential for catastrophe if not appropriately controlled, and clear communication is not part of routine practice. While some may view the anesthesist´s role as extraneous while on CPB, Steven Bartels and Kathirvel Subramaniam describe the anesthesit´s role and problems from the anestesist´s perspective and within their realm regarding patients on CPB - published as contribution to the new textbook ´Extracorporeal Circulation in Theory and Practice´, edited by Rudolf Tschaut, Molly Dreher, Ashley Walczak, Tami Rosenthal.

"Cardiothoracic surgery is often associated with the need for donor blood product transfusion. These blood transfusions are known to be associated with increased postoperative mortality and morbidity, including prolonged intubation times, increased hospital stay, stroke and kidney injury.

„The concepts ´medicinal´ and ´recreational´ cannabis use are commonly used in public discourse and in research. However, multiple studies show that the lines between recreational and medicinal cannabis use are not clear-cut,“ Dr. Frederique Bawin reports (in: Why? Explanations for drug use and drug dealing in social drug research).