Body Detects Temperature Shifts: How Warm and Cool Signals Are Sensed
A new study is upending a long-held idea about how the nervous system reads temperature. Researchers at the University of Queensland report that most skin...
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AI Review Shows How Tools Help Nurses Manage Chronic Disease More Proactively
AI is moving from buzzword to bedside tool, as a new umbrella review in JMIR Nursing reports that artificial intelligence–enabled nursing interventions can strengthen chronic...
ORNL Grid Researchers Achieve IEEE Senior Membership Recognition
Three researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have been elevated to Senior Member status in the Institute of Electrical and...
ZBP1 Links Genomic Stress to Tumor Immunity, New Study Finds
A new open-access Review in Ferroptosis and Oxidative Stress spotlights Z-nucleic acid-binding protein 1 (ZBP1), framing it as an emerging innate immune sensor that links...
Aral Sea Drying Turns Carbon Sink Into Major Carbon Source
Drying of the Aral Sea has released more than 200 teragrams of carbon from exposed lake-bed sediments, turning a once-stable carbon reservoir into an active...
Structure-Guided PCSK9 Vaccine Demonstrates Promising Preclinical Results
Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) continues to be a major global killer, and elevated LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) remains a key, modifiable driver. PCSK9 has emerged as...
University Professor Uses Artificial Intelligence to Improve Road Safety
A University of Houston civil engineering professor is using artificial intelligence to help agencies make pavement-related decisions that can reduce crash risk. The work links...
New drug candidate offers hope for patients with NRAS-driven melanoma
A Huntsman Cancer Institute team at the University of Utah reports that daraxonrasib, a targeted RAS inhibitor, could offer a new treatment route for a...
Timing Regenerative Signals Determines Healing Outcomes After Injury
Medicine has long aimed to deliver the right therapeutic signals to the right tissue at the right moment. New University of Oregon research suggests that...
Greek Cave Snail Identified, Named for Hermes and His Nymph Caretaker
A team at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens has identified a completely new genus and species of subterranean freshwater snail in southern Greece....
Quantum materials breakthrough may enable electronics in extreme environments
University of Arizona researchers report a proof-of-concept advance for graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) as radiation-tolerant sensing elements. The team integrated nine-atom-wide armchair GNRs into semiconductor devices...
Association for Molecular Pathology Names 2026 Award Winners
ROCKVILLE, Md.—The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) has announced the 2026 recipients of its Award for Excellence in Molecular Diagnostics, the Jeffrey A. Kant Leadership...
Smart Ring Discretion Challenged by New Findings
Tufts engineers are building a new class of wearable electronics designed to disappear into everyday life. Instead of rigid, planar chips, they use thread-based integrated...
Compact genetic switch offers new potential therapies for drug-resistant epilepsy
Targeted gene therapy is increasingly viewed as a promising route for patients with drug-resistant epilepsy, a condition that affects roughly one-third of people living with...
Federal Ginseng Rules Struggle to Accurately Predict Plant Health
Wild American ginseng has long been regulated by rules that rely on plant age and leaf count, but a new study led by Yale researchers...