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Can Past Mass Extinctions Predict Today’s Species Extinction Risks?
A new global analysis of tropical forest mammals is challenging one of conservation science’s most common assumptions: that the traits...
Kangaroo Care Boosts Sleep Stability in Premature Infants
For babies born weeks before their due date, sleep is not simply a period of rest. It is an active...
DINE Study Assesses Metal Exposure in Preterm Infants Through Shed Teeth
A baby’s first teeth may become an unexpected archive of life inside a neonatal intensive care unit. A new study...
AI Scientists Are Reshaping Scientific Discovery Through Autonomous Research Agents
A new perspective published in Artificial Intelligence & Environment argues that the long-promised “AI scientist” is no longer a distant...
Researchers develop unified framework explaining a major driver of cancer
Cancer researchers have uncovered an unexpected molecular system that helps explain how the MYC gene drives some of the most...
Holographic printer creates 3D shapes, including voids, in one shot
Researchers at the University of Utah and The University of Texas at Austin have demonstrated a new form of 3D...
Could weight-loss drugs help people with alcohol addiction, liver disease, and obesity?
A weight-loss injection could soon be tested as a treatment for people facing the dangerous combination of alcohol dependence, obesity...
Models Reveal How Social Inequality Shapes Epidemic Spread
Influenza can race through a crowded barracks or prison while circulating far more slowly in the wider population. Ebola may...
Drug screening and AI identify neuroprotective agents in a childhood dementia model
Childhood dementia is one of medicine’s most devastating and least understood frontiers: children lose memory, language, movement and independence as...
New benchmarks measure how effectively neuromorphic devices emulate biological brains
Neuromorphic Computing Gets a Common Language for Comparing Brain-Inspired Machines Neuromorphic engineering has entered a period of rapid expansion, with...
Scientists map B7-H3 across tumour stroma, blood vessels and immune cells
A molecule once treated as a relatively obscure feature of cancer biology is moving toward the centre of the immuno-oncology...
Oxygen vacancies enable rapid ion transport in advanced battery materials
Lithium titanate, a material already widely recognized for its durability and safety in rechargeable batteries, has revealed an unexpected new...
Study uncovers overlooked DNA mutation pattern linked to colorectal cancer
Researchers at the University of California San Diego and collaborating institutions have identified and validated a previously overlooked pattern of...
SETI Institute Team Develops New Method to Locate Space Resources
August 19, 2026 — A small spacecraft could one day sweep past the Moon, a near-Earth asteroid, and Mars’s moon...
Scripps Research Scientist Receives $2.76 Million NIAID New Innovators Award
Scripps Research assistant professor Tiantian Liu has received a five-year New Innovators Award from the National Institute of Allergy and...
Houston biologists win $1 million NSF grant to study evolving mutation rates
A nearly $1 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation is launching a four-year investigation into one of evolution’s...
HMGA1–HP1β Chromatin Axis Regulates Premature Aging in Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome
A molecular switch linking two key chromatin regulators may help explain why cells in Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) age at...
Biochar Electron Bridges Unlock Hidden Energy Savings in Wastewater Treatment
A material made from waste biomass could help transform one of wastewater treatment’s most promising technologies, according to a new...
How Aggressive Colon Cancer Tumors Evade the Immune System
Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the Heidelberg Institute for Stem Cell Technology and Experimental Medicine (HI-STEM)...
New Insights Reveal How the Atlantic Circulation Changes and Moves
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, has long been described as one of Earth’s great climate engines: a vast...