Entrepreneurs Invited to Enter 2027 SPIE Startup Challenge
BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA — 11 August 2026 — A global search for the next breakthrough in optics and photonics entrepreneurship...
Simulations reveal one ant can set an entire colony in motion
A single ant can trigger a synchronized wave of activity across an entire colony, sending hundreds or even thousands of...
Neutrophil Traps Drive Liver Metastasis by Disrupting NK Cell Surveillance Through CCDC25
A microscopic defense strategy that normally helps the body trap invading microbes may also be opening the door for cancer...
Android Smartphone Alerts’ Performance and User Responses During 2025 Marmara Ereğlisi Earthquake
A few seconds can make the difference between standing safely in a doorway and being trapped by falling glass, furniture...
Adipolin May Reveal Early Vascular Damage in Children With Obesity
A molecule released by fat tissue could offer scientists an earlier warning that obesity is beginning to damage children’s blood...
Washington Study Identifies Barriers and Supports for Neurodevelopmental Follow-Up in At-Risk Newborns
A new study examining neurodevelopmental follow-up for at-risk newborns across Washington State has brought attention to a critical gap in...
Magnetic Kirigami Wearable Tracks Sap Flow in Delicate Grass-Like Plants
A new wearable sensor designed to monitor the movement of water inside fragile, grass-like plants is turning a subtle biological...
Directly Printed Metasurfaces Made from Formulated Optical Materials
Optical metasurfaces—ultrathin layers engineered to control light through arrays of nanoscale structures—have long promised to replace bulky lenses, filters and...
New urinary biomarkers improve endometrial cancer detection
Endometrial cancer is increasingly being detected through a sample that is simple to collect, painless to obtain and potentially suitable...
NJIT Professor’s Polymer Proposal Wins $125,000 ACS Grant
A new research project at the New Jersey Institute of Technology is taking a closer look at a strange but...
Can tissue chips overcome the limitations of animal testing?
Animal testing has shaped modern drug development for decades, but its limitations become especially visible when scientists evaluate cancer immunotherapies....
Miniature microscope lets scientists observe and control brain cells during natural movement
A tiny microscope weighing just five grams could give neuroscientists an unprecedented view of how individual brain cells control behavior...
Heart Health Advances with $28.7 Million Gift from Marcus Foundation
The Marcus Foundation has awarded $28.7 million to Chuck Murry, MD, PhD, director of the USC Stem Cell Center, to...
Arkansas researchers map genetic neighborhoods to identify disease-causing bacteria
Scientists in Arkansas have developed a machine-learning approach that can identify potentially disease-causing strains of a poultry bacterium by analyzing...
High-resolution X-ray imaging reveals leaf interiors, guiding efforts to reduce water loss
A new three-dimensional look inside sorghum leaves is revealing how crops may be redesigned to use less water without sacrificing...
Phosphine Enables Azine C–H Coupling Using Water and Ammonia
Transition-metal chemistry has transformed the way scientists modify complex molecules, but two of the simplest and most abundant substances on...
Th17 Cytokines Trigger Shared and Distinct Microglial, Endothelial Responses in Post-Streptococcal Encephalitis
Wayne, Akcan, Faust and colleagues have reported new evidence that immune signals associated with T helper 17 cells can reshape...
Iron-Based Solid Redox System Enables Sustainable Sulfur Recovery from Sulfide Wastewater
For decades, sulfide-bearing wastewater has been treated as a problem to neutralize rather than a resource to recover. That approach...
PROTEUS Reconsidered: Rethinking Success When Most Patients Never Become Disease-Free
A provocative reassessment of the PROTEUS study is challenging what it means to call a cancer trial “positive” when most...
Commentary examines delayed cord clamping and immediate kangaroo care in preterm infants
A short correspondence published in the Journal of Perinatology has reignited debate over how the first minutes of life should...