Brain Protein Defect Disrupts Fat Cravings, Dietary Intake, and Body Weight
Obesity research has increasingly moved beyond the stomach and into the brain, where specialized neural circuits help determine when an...
Compact BIC Laser Produces Highly Pure Linearly Polarized Emission
On-chip lasers are moving from laboratory demonstrations toward technologies that could reshape coherent communications, advanced displays, precision sensing, imaging and...
Supportive workplaces help retain experienced NHS nurses, study finds
An ageing workforce is forcing health systems to confront a question that recruitment campaigns alone cannot answer: what makes experienced...
ShanghaiTech Researchers Develop Diffusion-Regularized Neural Representation to Reduce CT Metal Artifacts
Computed tomography has transformed modern medicine by allowing clinicians to see inside the body without surgery, but the technology has...
Mediterranean Basin Study Assesses Irrigation Water Quality and Wastewater Reuse Risks
A new study in Scientific Reports is placing an urgent question at the center of Mediterranean agriculture: when freshwater supplies...
New Imaging Technology Captures Seizures as They Happen
Scientists have captured a seizure moving through a living brain in three dimensions and in real time, offering one of...
Three Water Molecules Reveal the Minimal Switch Enabling Ultrafast Proton Transport
Water is often described as the universal solvent, but that familiar label captures only part of its importance. In living...
BU/VA Researcher Honored for Contributions to Trauma Psychology
Colleen Sloan, PhD, a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, has received...
New fossil evidence upends long-held assumptions about how mammals gave birth
A fossilized growth signal in the bones of a 236-million-year-old cynodont may have revealed one of the earliest known examples...
Interference-Engineered Mach–Zehnder Modulator Achieves Ultra-High Extinction Ratio Optical Modulation
A new study describes an optical modulator designed to push one of the most important performance measures in modern communications...
Friendly gut bacteria curb viral infections with a tryptophan-derived metabolite
A new study published in Nature Communications reports that bacteria normally living alongside humans may help suppress viral infections by...
Preclinical Data Require Clinical Context for Accurate Interpretation
The path from a promising laboratory result to an effective clinical treatment is often described as a pipeline, but a...
Extinction intervention erases fear memories through locus coeruleus dopamine and D2 receptors
A new study reports that a behavioral intervention can do more than suppress the outward expression of fear: it may...
Scientists Compare Human Brains and Organoids Side by Side
For nearly 15 years, scientists have been building organoids—three-dimensional structures grown from stem cells that mimic selected features of organs...
RTN4IP1 Drives Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Progression and Metastasis Through Metabolic Reprogramming
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), one of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer, may be driven by a previously underappreciated...
Recyclable Energy Storage Device Designed for Sustainability
Smartphones, smartwatches and small drones may soon have access to a different kind of rechargeable power source—one designed not only...
Stroller-running parents report less than half the injury rate of other runners
For parents who lace up their running shoes while pushing a stroller, the extra weight and altered stride may seem...
Scientists create innovative technique to 3D-print blood vessel networks
More than 100,000 people in the United States are currently waiting for an organ transplant, while another potential recipient joins...
Research finds some wars face a persistent risk of escalation
Military leaders often enter conflicts believing they can control their size, duration and intensity. A new statistical analysis led by...
Case Western Leads NIH Partnership Developing Rapid Chairside Oral Cancer Test
Cleveland researchers are developing a rapid, noninvasive test that could help dentists determine within minutes whether a suspicious lesion in...