Science News

April 12, 2026

New insights to major disease pathways

Chemical tool identifies hundreds of modified proteinsCredit: Flinders University Australian researchers are making major inroads into finding the cause of...

(Noise-) less is more

Development of high precision 3D circuit simulator allows for electromagnetic noise-less circuit layoutCredit: Osaka University A group of researchers from...

Running research: Heel-toe or toe-heel?

Credit: Unsplash New research from La Trobe University suggests there is no evidence that changing a runner's strike pattern will...

SMART and NTU researchers design polymer that can kill drug-resistant bacteria

New polymer may pave the way for developing drugs to which bacteria are significantly less resistant, a breakthrough that could...

Novel e-skin achieves self-powered hippocampal neural stimulation

Credit: ZHAN Yang Chinese scientists recently developed a flexible electronic skin (e-skin) capable of self-powered neural stimulation and inducing a...

‘Football as Medicine’

Prescribing football for global health promotionCredit: Bo Kousgaard The new book "Football as Medicine - Prescribing Football for Global Health...

Could some people with schizophrenia in poorer nations simply have a vitamin deficiency?

A new hypothesis may hold the key to solving four medical mysteries associated with the chronic brain disorderCredit: University of...

Depression, anxiety may hinder healing in young patients with hip pain

Pre-operative depression, anxiety linked to worse postsurgical outcomesCredit: Matt Miller New research suggests that physicians evaluating young patients with hip...

Fundamental discoveries for future nanotools: Chemists distinguish multiple weak forces

Credit: Image by Shuichi Hiraoka, CC-BY-ND The process of building a tiny cube has revealed some of the fundamental mysteries...

Estimates of ecosystem carbon mitigation improved towards the goal of the Paris agreement

Credit: Masayuki Kondo Approximately 30 percent of CO2 emitted to the atmosphere by human activities, mainly the use of fossil...

A guidebook for local governments and CBOs to support elderly people to take out the trash

Credit: NIES One of the issues related to waste management in aging society is helping elderly people who find it...

Antiarrhythmic drug identified as potential treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension

Findings reported in The American Journal of Pathology suggest dofetilide may counteract pathological changes in potassium channels associated with pulmonary...

Experiment suggests the best ways to tackle invasive Oregon grape in Belgian coastal dunes

Credit: Tim Adriaens The Belgian coastal dunes, a protected habitat of high conservation value, are getting severely impacted by one...

Local traditional knowledge can be as accurate as scientific transect monitoring

New research from a cross-organisational consortium in the Amazon has found indigenous knowledge to be as accurate as scientific transect...

Bumblebees exposed to Chernobyl-levels of radiation consume more nectar

Credit: Jessica Burrows The study simulated Chernobyl-levels of radiation exposure in a laboratory to investigate the impacts it may be...

Flipping the script on novel cancer therapy leads to insights into lupus

Credit: (Image credit: Chen Lab) In the last decade, scientists discovered that blocking a key regulator of the immune system...

University of Iowa receives major grant to continue work on Huntington’s disease

$18 million NIH grant for research to understand brain development in children at risk for HDCredit: University of Iowa Health...

NRL-camera aboard NASA spacecraft confirms asteroid phenomenon

Credit: (U.S. Navy photo by Brendan Gallagher and Guillermo Stenborg) WASHINGTON - A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory-built camera mounted on...

Tsoi lives in Malaysian forests

Sergey Ermilov, a researcher from Tyumen State University, discovered and described a new species of oribatid mites that lives on...

National Academy of Inventors elects Pitt’s William J. Federspiel as Fellow