Bereaved children face double the risk of mental health disorders
A large Australian study has found that children who experience the loss of a parent are about twice as likely to have a diagnosable mental...
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Can Past Mass Extinctions Predict Today’s Species Extinction Risks?
A new global analysis of tropical forest mammals is challenging one of conservation science’s most common assumptions: that the traits making species vulnerable to extinction...
Kangaroo Care Boosts Sleep Stability in Premature Infants
For babies born weeks before their due date, sleep is not simply a period of rest. It is an active biological state during which the...
DINE Study Assesses Metal Exposure in Preterm Infants Through Shed Teeth
A baby’s first teeth may become an unexpected archive of life inside a neonatal intensive care unit. A new study from the Developmental Impact of...
AI Scientists Are Reshaping Scientific Discovery Through Autonomous Research Agents
A new perspective published in Artificial Intelligence & Environment argues that the long-promised “AI scientist” is no longer a distant concept. Professor Guang-Guo Ying of...
Researchers develop unified framework explaining a major driver of cancer
Cancer researchers have uncovered an unexpected molecular system that helps explain how the MYC gene drives some of the most aggressive and difficult-to-treat tumors. In...
Holographic printer creates 3D shapes, including voids, in one shot
Researchers at the University of Utah and The University of Texas at Austin have demonstrated a new form of 3D printing that can create intricate,...
Could weight-loss drugs help people with alcohol addiction, liver disease, and obesity?
A weight-loss injection could soon be tested as a treatment for people facing the dangerous combination of alcohol dependence, obesity and chronic liver disease. Researchers...
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...
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...