Scientists unravel the mystery behind narwhals’ uniquely twisted tusks
For centuries, the narwhal’s long, ivory-colored tusk was treated as evidence of magic. In medieval Europe, these extraordinary teeth were sold as unicorn horns and...
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Insurance Status Linked to Racial Disparities in NICU Skin-to-Skin Care
A quiet revolution in newborn medicine is taking place against the rhythmic alarms and intensive monitoring of neonatal intensive care units: the recognition that parents...
University of Toledo researchers develop patent-pending test for overlooked liver disease marker
Liver disease is often described as a silent threat, but researchers at the University of Toledo say one of its earliest biological signals may be...
New multi-spatiotemporal projection captures ultrafast scenes in a single compressed shot
A new imaging method could give researchers a way to watch ultrafast events unfold from a single exposure, replacing the traditional need to repeat an...
Flexible Single-Source, Dual-Drive Knee Exoskeleton Assists Elderly Daily Walking
The knee may soon become one of the most important targets for wearable robotics, as researchers in China have developed a flexible assistive exoskeleton designed...
Pork Consumers See Meaningful Weight Loss, Modestly Improved Diets Over Six Months
A new study is challenging the idea that pork must disappear from the plate when people are trying to lose weight. In a secondary analysis...
AI mirrors humans’ tendency to judge character from facial features
Human beings routinely make judgments about personality from the shape, expression, and overall appearance of a stranger’s face. A person may be perceived as competent,...
MD Anderson Announces 2026 Andrew Sabin Family Fellows
HOUSTON, Aug. 17, 2026 — The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has announced its 2026 class of Andrew Sabin Family Fellows, recognizing 10...
Listening in on dolphins reveals acoustic clues to food and friendship hotspots
For dolphins living along Florida’s Atlantic coast, the ocean is far more than a physical landscape. It is an acoustic environment shaped by whistles, echolocation...
Signals Recruit and Dispatch Components Across Reconfigurable Phase-Separated Protocell Networks
A new study has brought scientists one step closer to building artificial cell communities that can sense signals, reorganize themselves and distribute molecular cargo with...
Transfer Learning Recalibrates Deployment Data for Better Survival Prediction Under Covariate Shifts
Clinical prediction models are often built with an implicit assumption: that the people who will eventually use a medical risk score resemble the patients whose...
Atomically Thin Amorphous Carbon Achieves an Ultralow Dielectric Constant
A material that is only a few atoms thick has emerged as a potential solution to one of modern electronics’ most stubborn problems: unwanted electrical...
Scientists uncover how inflammatory molecules drive cancer progression
Colorectal cancer may resist immunotherapy not only because tumor cells acquire genetic changes, but also because inflammatory signals can reprogram their epigenetic state, according to...
Five new Cyprus wasp species discovered, including one named after Aphrodite
Scientists have identified five species of parasitoid wasp previously unknown to science in Cyprus, more than doubling the number of chalcid wasps known to occur...
Dual-frequency photoacoustic imaging maps vessels and oxygenation across the mouse brain
A new imaging study has brought scientists closer to seeing the living brain as a complete, functioning vascular system rather than as a collection of...
