How AI Could Detect Pain in Animals Unable to Communicate Their Suffering
AI System Reads Pain in Horses—and Shows Exactly Where It Sees Suffering A new artificial intelligence framework can detect signs of pain in horses from...
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New master switch linked to aggressive breast cancer; drug slows tumour growth
Researchers at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore have identified a molecular “master switch” that appears to coordinate...
How Curvature Shapes the World Around Us
Scientists have developed a new framework for understanding how active materials behave when they are forced to live on curved surfaces, revealing that geometry can...
Global health tech competition accelerates innovation for cardiovascular and brain health
DALLAS, Aug. 18, 2026 — The American Heart Association has opened applications for its 2026 Health Tech Competition, a global initiative designed to move clinically...
Study identifies IVF patients most likely to use traditional Chinese medicine
CLEVELAND — A new study from University Hospitals Connor Whole Health and the UH Fertility Center has identified the kinds of patients most likely to...
On-chip terahertz metasensor enables quantitative identification of multiple biomolecules
A new on-chip terahertz metasensor could bring a powerful laboratory technique for identifying complex mixtures of biomolecules closer to compact, rapid and potentially portable diagnostic...
Hyaluronic Acid May Predict Severity of Down Syndrome-Associated Transient Abnormal Myelopoiesis
A blood test that measures a familiar component of connective tissue may offer doctors an earlier warning when newborns with Down syndrome develop a potentially...
Immune-Stromal Biology Linked to Neoadjuvant Radiotherapy Response in Rectal Cancer
Rectal cancer is often described as a disease of malignant cells, but the biology surrounding those cells can be just as important in determining whether...
Bionic Multichannel Whisker System Could Assist Endoluminal Interventions
Rats’ Whiskers Inspire a Tactile Sensing System for Safer, More Informative Endoscopy Rats may be helping engineers solve one of the most persistent problems in...
TUM develops single-photon sources to advance quantum communication
A New Way to Build Single-Photon Sources Could Make Quantum Networks More Practical Quantum communication has long promised a radically different way to transmit information,...
Restoring missing sunlight indoors may help prevent myopia
Researchers have identified a narrow band of blue-violet light that prevented experimentally induced myopia in tree shrews, raising the possibility that the lighting used inside...
Retraction: Study on NOTCH mitochondrial localization and tumor-initiating cell reprogramming withdrawn
A retraction notice in Experimental & Molecular Medicine has withdrawn a high-profile claim about how the cancer-linked NOTCH signaling pathway interacts with mitochondria and reshapes...
NUS CDE researchers set new brightness records for flexible displays
A new generation of flexible displays could soon make electronic light as soft, thin and adaptable as the surfaces they cover. Researchers at the National...
Global Study Maps Metabolic and Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease Risks and Progression
Metabolic and alcohol-associated liver disease, or MetALD, is emerging as one of the most consequential—and least recognized—forms of chronic liver disease worldwide. The condition develops...
Scientists visualize nanoscale forces, confirming electric fields at the air–water interface
Bubbles may look simple, but at the boundary where air meets water, forces that are invisible at everyday scales can become powerful enough to reshape...