Models Reveal How Social Inequality Shapes Epidemic Spread
Influenza can race through a crowded barracks or prison while circulating far more slowly in the wider population. Ebola may become substantially more difficult to...
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Drug screening and AI identify neuroprotective agents in a childhood dementia model
Childhood dementia is one of medicine’s most devastating and least understood frontiers: children lose memory, language, movement and independence as the developing brain progressively fails....
New benchmarks measure how effectively neuromorphic devices emulate biological brains
Neuromorphic Computing Gets a Common Language for Comparing Brain-Inspired Machines Neuromorphic engineering has entered a period of rapid expansion, with researchers building computing systems that...
Scientists map B7-H3 across tumour stroma, blood vessels and immune cells
A molecule once treated as a relatively obscure feature of cancer biology is moving toward the centre of the immuno-oncology conversation. B7-H3, also known as...
Oxygen vacancies enable rapid ion transport in advanced battery materials
Lithium titanate, a material already widely recognized for its durability and safety in rechargeable batteries, has revealed an unexpected new capability. Researchers at Graz University...
Study uncovers overlooked DNA mutation pattern linked to colorectal cancer
Researchers at the University of California San Diego and collaborating institutions have identified and validated a previously overlooked pattern of DNA mutations in colorectal cancer,...
SETI Institute Team Develops New Method to Locate Space Resources
August 19, 2026 — A small spacecraft could one day sweep past the Moon, a near-Earth asteroid, and Mars’s moon Phobos while using a single...
Scripps Research Scientist Receives $2.76 Million NIAID New Innovators Award
Scripps Research assistant professor Tiantian Liu has received a five-year New Innovators Award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to investigate...
Houston biologists win $1 million NSF grant to study evolving mutation rates
A nearly $1 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation is launching a four-year investigation into one of evolution’s most consequential but least predictable...
HMGA1–HP1β Chromatin Axis Regulates Premature Aging in Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome
A molecular switch linking two key chromatin regulators may help explain why cells in Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) age at extraordinary speed. In a study...
Biochar Electron Bridges Unlock Hidden Energy Savings in Wastewater Treatment
A material made from waste biomass could help transform one of wastewater treatment’s most promising technologies, according to a new review published in Biochar. Researchers...
How Aggressive Colon Cancer Tumors Evade the Immune System
Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the Heidelberg Institute for Stem Cell Technology and Experimental Medicine (HI-STEM) have identified a mechanism that...
New Insights Reveal How the Atlantic Circulation Changes and Moves
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, has long been described as one of Earth’s great climate engines: a vast ocean conveyor that moves warm...
New chip replicates how cancer spreads through the body
Cancer’s deadliest move is often not the growth of the original tumor, but its ability to travel. Metastasis, the spread of malignant cells from a...
Mussels Show Signs of Fear, Too
For a blue mussel, eating can be a dangerous business. The animal survives by filtering seawater through its body, extracting microscopic algae and other particles...