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...
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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...
Swiss Study Links Hospitalized Older Adults’ Activity Patterns to Clinical Factors
A new study published in BMC Geriatrics is turning attention to one of the most overlooked signals in hospital medicine: how much older patients actually...
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...
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...