AI Biologist XunZi Identifies Targets That Could Modify Disease
A new artificial intelligence system has identified a pair of potential disease-modifying targets in Parkinson’s disease, then helped guide experiments showing that blocking one of...
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Researchers unveil untethered insect-scale piezoelectric robot with multiple biomimetic capabilities
A tiny robot inspired by dragons, qilins, chimeras, fish, and sea lions has demonstrated an unusual combination of speed, strength, and agility. Developed by researchers...
Insilico Medicine Uses AI to Discover Targets for Rare Sinonasal Cancer
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Aug. 4, 2026 — A new study is showing how artificial intelligence and multi-omic biology can expose therapeutic opportunities in one of...
UMass Amherst AI tool advances personalized radiation dosing for prostate cancer treatment
Radiopharmaceutical therapy (RPT) is entering a new era in cancer treatment, but one of its biggest limitations has remained stubbornly unchanged: patients generally receive standardized...
Halide Solid Electrolytes Advance All-Solid-State Batteries Through Interface and Performance Design
The race to build safer, more powerful batteries has brought a once-overlooked class of materials into the spotlight. Researchers from the University of Puerto Rico,...
WSU study finds working from home doesn’t ensure breastfeeding success
SPOKANE, Wash. — Working from home is widely regarded as one of the most breastfeeding-friendly employment arrangements available to new mothers. Yet a longitudinal study...
Reproducible 3D Human Brain Tissue Model Studies Healthy and Disease-Linked Microglia Phenotypes
Microglia, the brain’s resident immune cells, are moving to the center of neuroscience as researchers seek to understand how they protect neural tissue, respond to...
How IL33 and IL1RL1 Variants Alter IL-33/ST2 Signaling Structure and Function
A molecular investigation into a patient’s unexplained thrombocytopenia has uncovered evidence that the interleukin-33 pathway may play a more direct role in platelet production and...
NICE Versus BOADICEA for Breast Cancer Risk Assessment in Women Under 50
A new study is putting two very different approaches to breast cancer risk assessment head to head, asking whether primary-care clinicians could identify more women...
Mapping Pancreatic Cancer’s Tissue Architecture with Computational Pathology
Pancreatic cancer is often described as one of the most difficult cancers to detect and treat, but its danger is not explained by malignant cells...
Study examines links between mother-to-child HIV exposure and neurodevelopmental disorders
A systematic review and meta-analysis published in Pediatric Research has examined how exposure to HIV during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding may be related to neurodevelopmental...
Compositionality Continuum Offers Framework for Studying Intelligence’s Neural Basis
A long-standing assumption about intelligence is being challenged by a new perspective in neuroscience: the ability to combine familiar elements into novel, meaningful structures may...
Stabilizing Flapping-Wing Robots Amid Sudden Disturbances
Flapping-wing micro aerial vehicles are turning one of nature’s most efficient flight strategies into a new class of robotic technology. Inspired by birds, bees, and...
Scalable High-Density Integrated Photonic Convolution via Spatiotemporal Interleaving
A new silicon photonic architecture could make optical convolution far denser and more adaptable, offering a potential path toward faster hardware for artificial intelligence, machine...
Intense Femtosecond Lasers Trigger Ultrafast Optical Switching in Doped Semiconductors
A burst of intense femtosecond laser light can make a semiconductor change its optical behavior almost instantaneously, according to a new study published in Light:...