Gut Chemical Helps Scientists Control Seizures and Repair Damaged Brains
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can look deceptively healed once bleeding stops and swelling fades. But inside the brain, a slower and more dangerous process is...
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Chemistry from Alien World Detected in Meteorite That Hit New Jersey Home
July 15, 2026, Mountain View, CA — On July 16, 2024, a daytime meteor rattled New York City, producing a sonic boom as it skimmed...
Sex and multimorbidity link to higher dementia readmissions in England study
People living with dementia face a heightened risk of returning to hospital after discharge. In a new analysis of routinely collected electronic healthcare records from...
Roadless Rule Safeguards Drinking Water for 25 Million Americans, Study Finds
Federal protection of national forest “roadless areas” may be far more important to clean drinking water than many people realize, according to a new study...
New African monkey species discovered deep in Congo rainforest
In the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), scientists have confirmed a previously unknown African monkey species, described as one of the rarest...
Food System Transformation Could Reshape Global Agriculture, Experts Say
A major new multimodel ensemble (MME) study assesses how global agriculture could look by 2050 under a coordinated “food systems transformation” package. The research builds...
Laryngoscopy attempts during transition linked to severe intraventricular hemorrhage in extreme preterms
A new study is putting a spotlight on a seemingly narrow detail in neonatal care: how many times clinicians need to attempt laryngoscopy during the...
Butyrate epigenetically sustains intestinal epithelial–T cell signaling for tolerance
A new study published in Nature Communications reports that butyrate—an abundant gut microbial metabolite—can epigenetically “license” prolonged conversations between intestinal epithelial cells and T cells....
Designing Rational Home-Based Studies to Assess Infants’ Sleep Patterns
A new study published this week tackles a surprisingly difficult question for sleep science: how to measure infants’ sleep in real home environments without distorting...
Correction: NLRP3 pyroptosis worsens mouse cardiac hypertrophy; irisin is protective
A recent correction published in Cell Death Discovery updates the record for a study examining how immune signaling shapes the heart’s response to mechanical stress....
Older Adults’ Hip Abduction and Ankle Dorsiflexion Differences After Falls
A new study is turning attention to a subtle mix of joint function that may help explain why some older adults are more likely to...
GPS satellite data calibrated for improved space weather research
For more than two decades, GPS has been quietly watching Earth’s radiation belts by measuring streams of energetic electrons. But the constellation’s satellites do not...
New Inhibitors Could Enhance Chemotherapy’s Attack on Resistant Cancer Cells
Scientists at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center report the discovery of a promising therapeutic target that could...
Low Carbon Dioxide Boosts Microbes to Produce More Biodegradable Plastic
A new study suggests that tweaking the carbon dioxide supply in safe gas fermentation can markedly boost the production of a biodegradable plastic. Researchers focused...
Virtual Tumor Model Predicts Response to Liver Cancer Immunotherapy
A research team at Johns Hopkins has built a computational framework to forecast which people with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) may benefit from a combination of...