Cambridge researchers report that several widely used low-calorie sweeteners can directly interfere with gut bacteria—an effect that becomes more pronounced when sweeteners are combined with...
European dust pollution is being quantified with a new continent-wide method that converts daily particulate measurements into estimates of transported mineral dust. Researchers compiled an...
Older adults who suffer hip fractures face a high risk of complications after surgery, particularly postoperative pulmonary infection. A new study reports the development and...
Mechanical metamaterials promise tougher, lighter materials—but designing them has been slow because fracture is governed by mechanisms that span many length scales, from atomistic inelasticity...
An international team led by researchers at Hiroshima University has uncovered a way to detect early-stage deterioration in human skin collagen—before any visible thinning or...
A new UK study tracking how smokers source cigarettes and hand-rolling tobacco reports a notable rise in purchases from illicit channels. Researchers analysed repeated cross-sectional...
Fungi quietly underpin modern life, from producing medicines and shaping food systems to enabling industrial material processing. Yet their genetic blueprints remain far less understood...
Researchers at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), IrsiCaixa, and CIBEREHD have introduced a computational strategy to select...
Duke of the first immune responders is being rewritten by new work showing that not all neutrophils behave like rubble removers after spinal cord injury....
Flexible tactile sensing is a persistent bottleneck for robots, wearables, and bedside monitoring systems—especially when devices must remain reliable on curved skin-like surfaces while operating...
LMU researchers have reported a striking challenge to a long-standing textbook rule of photosynthesis: oxygenic photosynthesis can, in principle, occur without photosystem I. The study,...
A new analysis of geomagnetic storm “saturation” challenges a long-held idea in space weather research: that the solar wind energy driving Earth’s polar ionosphere has...
Researchers have pushed twistronics beyond the familiar world of stacked 2D materials held together by weak van der Waals forces. In a new approach, a...
Fuel cells promise a cleaner path to large-scale energy conversion, but cathode performance is still held back by sluggish oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) kinetics. Platinum...
New county-level analysis is adding urgency to efforts aimed at boosting breastfeeding initiation in the United States. In a paper published July 15, 2026 in...
