UI Health Ophthalmology Program Named Among Nation’s Best by U.S. News
UI Health has received a new round of national and regional recognition in the 2026–27 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings, placing its...
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Scientists Capture Electron Orbitals in Three Dimensions
Quantum mechanics has long forced scientists to abandon the idea that electrons occupy fixed, sharply defined locations. Instead, each electron is described by a wavefunction,...
Could Leaf Surface Insights Reveal New Ways to Prevent Crop Disease?
Fungal diseases that attack grain crops are beginning their assault long before the first visible lesion appears. The encounter starts on the leaf surface, where...
Second Annual Booster Dose of VLA15 Lyme Vaccine Studied in Healthy Individuals
Lyme disease vaccine research has entered a new phase as scientists examine what happens when healthy adults receive a second yearly booster of VLA15, a...
NUS CDE researchers create self-healing, recyclable substrate for longer-lasting soft sensors
Soft electronic skin may soon become tougher, more repairable and far less wasteful, thanks to a new bio-based material developed by researchers at the National...
Ontario Cancer Research Institute Names Aaron Schimmer President and Scientific Director
Toronto, Ontario, August 4, 2026 — Dr. Aaron Schimmer officially assumes the presidency and scientific directorship of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), beginning...
Japan’s Kawasaki Disease Epidemiology After the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2023–2024
Kawasaki disease incidence in Japan rebounded after COVID-19 pandemic restrictions were relaxed, but the recovery was not uniform across age groups, according to a nationwide...
Early-Life BMI Trajectories Linked to Childbirth and Infertility Among Women
A large cohort study of Danish women has found that body size during childhood is associated with the timing of childbirth, with the strength of...
Multi-omics reveals four corticotroph pituitary tumor subgroups with distinct clinical features
Corticotroph pituitary neuroendocrine tumours, or corticotroph PitNETs, have long presented doctors with a deceptively difficult puzzle. These tumours arise from corticotroph cells in the pituitary...
UBC seaweed coating keeps strawberries fresher than refrigeration
University of British Columbia researchers have developed an edible coating made from seaweed-derived agar that kept strawberries fresh for at least four days at room...
Study finds racial differences in ultrasound evaluation of suspected endometrial cancer
Transvaginal ultrasound can successfully rule out endometrial cancer in most Black women, even when uterine fibroids make the scan more difficult to complete, according to...
Researchers simplify increasingly complex AI problem-solving, one step at a time
A team of researchers at Tsinghua University has proposed a mathematical framework for building and understanding increasingly complex artificial intelligence systems by breaking difficult tasks...
How tumors evade immunotherapy: DDB1 sends PD-L1 into nuclei, driving anti-PD-1 resistance
Immune checkpoint blockade has reshaped modern oncology, but its success remains uneven. Drugs that disrupt the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway can produce long-lasting remissions in several cancers,...
Competition Between Species Cancels CO2 Benefits for Most Plants
For decades, rising carbon dioxide has been treated as a natural fertilizer for the world’s vegetation. Give plants more CO₂, the prevailing expectation goes, and...
AssemblyMate: AI-XR Coworker Brings Context-Aware Spatial-Temporal Reasoning to Manufacturing Assembly
Manufacturing assembly is entering an era in which the most valuable co-worker on the factory floor may not be human. A new system called AssemblyMate...