Children’s sensory overload stems from distinct neurobiological mechanisms
Everyday sensations that overwhelm some children—a scratchy clothing tag, the roar of a vacuum cleaner or an unfamiliar smell—may reveal more about their mental health...
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Chonnam National University study finds environmental responsibility boosts financial performance
Consumers may be turning sustainability into a measurable force in corporate finance. A new analysis of 579 publicly listed South Korean companies suggests that environmental...
Locking therapeutic strategy could make cancer treatment more precise
Although modern cancer treatments can eliminate malignant cells with remarkable efficiency, their lack of perfect selectivity often exposes healthy tissues to the same molecular assault....
Unexpected findings reveal new insights into cannabis’s impact on heart health
A randomized clinical trial has produced a surprising finding about cannabis and the heart: habitual users experienced approximately 9% fewer premature heartbeats on days when...
Arizona Water Imports Compared: Sea of Cortez Desalination vs Atmospheric Water Harvesting
Arizona’s water future may hinge on a choice between two radically different ways of importing moisture into one of the driest regions of the United...
Solving the Puzzle of Early Acute Kidney Injury After Pediatric Heart Surgery
Acute kidney injury is one of the most common and consequential complications faced by children after heart surgery, yet it often begins invisibly, before conventional...
Dresden Researchers Unveil Open-Source Tool Automating Lipid Data Integration
LipidLibrarian Brings the Fragmented World of Lipid Data Into One Open Platform For decades, lipid researchers have faced a deceptively simple problem: finding the same...
Nature’s Original Bioplastic Doubles as Food for Animals
A tiny marine worm with no mouth, gut, or anus has helped overturn a long-standing assumption about how animals obtain carbon from microbes. Researchers at...
Liver injury calls to poison centers surge nearly 400%
Calls to U.S. poison centers involving liver injuries linked to medications, supplements, alcohol and other foreign substances increased nearly fourfold between 2000 and 2024, according...
Teaching AI Antibody Biology Accelerates Drug Discovery
Antibody medicines are often discovered by searching through an overwhelming biological library. Researchers may begin with millions or even billions of antibody candidates, yet only...
New framework measures equitable access to metropolitan green space across scales
Across the world’s largest cities, a quiet competition is unfolding over one of the most valuable resources in urban life: access to open green space....
Child Brain Tumor Survivors Face Acute Kidney Injury During Treatment
A child may survive a brain tumor and still face a second, less visible threat from the treatment itself: acute kidney injury, or AKI. A...
Parkinson’s Disease Effort-Reward Decisions Disrupted by Impaired Effort Perception, Not Reward Sensitivity
Parkinson’s disease may alter one of the brain’s most fundamental calculations: whether an action is worth the effort it demands. A new study published in...
Layering atoms offers a new blueprint for designing three-dimensional quantum materials
Atomic layers are rewriting the design rules of three-dimensional quantum matter. In a study of tantalum disulfide, or TaS₂, researchers have shown that the way...
CHOP researchers uncover genetic differences between pediatric and adult immune-mediated inflammatory diseases
Philadelphia researchers have uncovered evidence that immune-mediated inflammatory diseases beginning in childhood are not simply younger versions of the same disorders diagnosed in adults. In...