Energy use from food consumption can reveal poverty in rural Chinese homes
A new study in Nature Communications suggests that the way rural households in China spend energy on food—rather than total income alone—can act as a...
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OTUB1 Suppresses Autophagy-Dependent Ferroptosis in Liver Cancer by Stabilizing p62
A new study highlights how a little-known protein, OTUB1, can reshape cell death pathways in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Researchers report that OTUB1 acts as a...
Mental Disorder-Related Deaths Among U.S. Adolescents Rise, 1999–2023
Mental health conditions are a persistent source of adolescent illness and early death, but national-scale, long-term mortality patterns have remained unclear. Now, a new analysis...
Lessons from history guide the future of AI in medical decision-making
Neonatal intensive care units are increasingly becoming decision laboratories: clinicians must synthesize rapidly changing vital signs, lab results, imaging, and historical context—often under time pressure...
Unequal Geographic Access to Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care in Accra
A new study in Nature Cities has mapped how where you live in Greater Accra can determine whether you reach emergency obstetric and newborn care...
New Insights Into Ionizing Radiation Exposure and Parkinson’s Disease Risk
A new perspective article in npj Parkinson’s Disease (2026) explores how exposure to ionizing radiation could intersect with the biological processes implicated in Parkinson’s disease....
Deformation-Stabilized Flexible Receive Coil Enables High-Fidelity Static and Dynamic MRI
A team led by Li and colleagues has unveiled a flexible MRI receive coil engineered to stay mechanically stable while delivering high-fidelity images across both...
Wearable ring monitors glucose and ketones in sweat simultaneously
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have built what they describe as a first-of-its-kind integrated smart ring designed for daily biochemical monitoring. Unlike...
Two Cancer Signaling Pathways Enable More Personalized Treatment for Papillary Thyroid Cancer
In papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), cancer progression is increasingly understood as a product of two intertwined signaling engines: MAPK and PI3K/AKT. While these pathways normally...
Fabric Enables Multiple Stable Shapes Using Snap-Like Structural Design
Knitting has evolved beyond comfort wear. In a new study from Harvard SEAS, researchers demonstrate how ordinary weft knitting can be engineered into shape-shifting textiles...
Fine-flavor native cacao matches commercial yields, study shows
A new multi-year field study from Peru’s Piura region challenges a long-held assumption in cocoa agriculture: native fine-flavor cacao may be just as productive as...
Study uncovers ultrafast gene evolution driving chicken feather color diversity
Domestic chickens have long fascinated biologists with their feather diversity—ranging from barred and speckled patterns to uniform black and crisp snowy white. For centuries, selective...
Saber-Toothed Cats’ Spinal Tumors Reveal How Inbreeding Threatened Survival
Saber-toothed cats (Smilodon fatalis) from the La Brea Tar Pits preserve more than just bones—they also retain a medical record of what may have been...
CCHFV Polymerase Enables RNA Synthesis and Shows Substrate Analog Inhibition
Viral polymerases of the Nairoviridae family are unusually large, and until now their atomic details have remained largely unexplored. In a new study, researchers report...
Infection Study Maps Protein Contact Sites, Shows Influenza Hijacks Paraspeckles
Influenza A virus is infamous for its speed—yet the molecular choreography inside infected cells is still being uncovered. In a new study published in Nature...