Day January 26, 2026

Excess rate for all outcomes. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-67247-w Analyzing patient health care notes recorded during millions of medical appointments at GPs and hospitals across England has allowed researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine…

An m11-induced conformational change in CD44. Overlay of the m11-bound (salmon) and unliganded (sand) forms of mouse CD44. The view shown is focused on the ?5-strand and the ?5-?6 loop. m11 is shown as a blue surface. Credit: Nature (2026).…

(From right) NTU Associate Professor Guillaume Thibault, Research Fellow Dr. Aaron Tan, who is holding an image of a microbial biofilm, and SCELSE Visiting Professor Kimberly Kline from the University of Geneva. Credit: NTU Singapore An international team of scientists,…

Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko from Pexels People shouldn’t be afraid to say what they think, and new research from the University of Virginia bears that out. Across 11 studies in North America, researchers found people who claim neutrality on controversial issues…

Credit: American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology (2025). DOI: 10.1152 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease with no cure and limited treatment options. One of the earliest signs of ALS is overactive brain signals known as cortical hyperexcitability.…

Just hours after Rhonda Swaney left a prenatal appointment for her first pregnancy, she felt severe pain in her stomach and started vomiting. Then 25 years old and six months pregnant, she drove herself to the emergency room in Ronan,…

Credit: Mido Makasardi ©? from Pexels Mass shootings in white-majority neighborhoods received roughly twice the news coverage of mass shootings in neighborhoods where a majority of residents were people of color, while coverage of police-involved shootings was disproportionately high in…

Parents report different strategies to address their children’s swearing, poll suggests. Credit: Sara Schultz, Michigan Medicine Today’s parents may be growing more relaxed about their children using curse words, according to a national poll. Only about half of parents say…

Leading genomic health experts from Monash University are calling for urgent government funding to progress the development of a national preventive genomic testing program that would save thousands of Australians from conditions like cancer and heart disease. This call to…

A landmark UK study involving tens of thousands of families has shown that childhood screening for type 1 diabetes is effective, laying the groundwork for a UK-wide childhood screening program. Results from the first phase of the ELSA (Early Surveillance…

Electron micrograph showing a human nasal epithelial cell releasing rhinovirus (blue). Credit: Julien Amat & Bao Wang When a rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of the common cold, infects the lining of our nasal passages, our cells work together to…

NASA’s Cross Flow Attenuated Natural Laminar Flow test article is mounted beneath the agency’s F-15 research aircraft ahead of the design’s high-speed taxi test on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2026, at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The 3-foot-tall…

‘Who wouldn’t want a robot to watch over your kids, take care of your pet?’ Musk asked the Davos crowd. Elon Musk sees his humanoid robots hitting the market next year, one of several “optimistic” forecasts by the US tech…

Credit: Clinical Nutrition Open Science (2026). DOI: 10.1016 Women with cervical cancer who experience significant muscle loss during treatment die at six times the rate of those who maintain muscle mass, according to an international review of 23 studies involving…

An interdisciplinary team including researchers at McGill University has found a range of unexpected chemical contaminants in human milk samples from Canada and South Africa. The chemicals include traces of pesticides, antimicrobials and additives used in plastics and personal-care products.…

White matter microstructure: Tens of thousands of myelinated axons packed into a 100-micron3 volume of brain white matter, imaged by electron microscopy and segmented using AI. Credit: University of Eastern Finland Early diagnosis and noninvasive monitoring of neurological disorders require…

Graphical abstract. Credit: Current Biology (2026). DOI: 10.1016 Scientists have long known that inherited neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s or motor neuron disease, can be traced back to genetic mutations. However, how they cause the diseases remains unanswered. In today’s…

Every day, we quietly judge the people around us. Did that co-worker split the credit fairly? Did a neighbor return a lost package? Did someone cut in line or respect the rules? According to a new study published in PLOS…

Researchers who carried out the study. Credit: University of Córdoba The Laboratory for Coexistence and Violence Prevention Studies (LAECOVI) at the UCO examines the relationship between moral courage and different forms of defense against bullying in a study involving over…

Offering non-monetary incentives such as free access to outpatient consultations to frequent blood donors is linked to an increase in donations without compromising blood safety, finds a study from China published by The BMJ. The researchers say their findings could…

Obesity increased SAMHD1 phosphorylation and thereby compromised its deoxynucleoside triphosphatase function, ultimately leading to aberrant accumulation of cytosolic dNTPs in macrophages. Credit: Science (2026). DOI: 10.1126 A team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers has uncovered a molecular pathway…

Ht neurons reproduce the molecular and spatial identities of cortical neurons. Credit: Nature Neuroscience (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-025-02142-7 Can the brain keep working when its architecture changes? Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have discovered that neurons located in the…

Credit: Monstera Production from Pexels Nails on a chalkboard. Loud breathing. Sneezing. These sounds can often be irritating and leave ears ringing with discomfort. But for people with misophonia, a decreased tolerance for specific sounds and stimuli, those noises can…

Researchers have demonstrated how mitochondria, which are abundant in muscle, could aid in stroke recovery through exercise-induced migration. Credit: Dr. Toshiki Inaba / Juntendo University School of Medicine, Japan Physical rehabilitation and symptom management still remain the mainstay of treatment…

Scaled bottom-up emissions and comparison with top-down and bottom-up estimates. Credit: Nature (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09998-6 The atmosphere is an important transport medium that carries microplastics to even the most remote parts of the world. These microplastics can be inhaled and…

Graphical abstract of the study. Credit: npj Acoustics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s44384-025-00035-4 A clinical study shows that preoperative dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) perfusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can help predict how microbubbles will distribute in the human brain. This is a…

A new study led by Hartmut Geiger at the University of Ulm, Germany and Yi Zheng and Kodandaramireddy Nalapareddy, CCHMC, Cincinnati, U.S. reveals that age-related changes in the gut microbiota directly impair intestinal stem cell (ISC) function and that restoring…

Microfossils from Precambrian units. Credit: Wikimedia Commons More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas were acidic and rich in iron, and volcanic activity roared across…

Scientists may have found a new way to spot early signs of obesity, which could lead to novel prevention strategies. A study published in the journal Cell Reports has discovered that people living with obesity have a distinct set of…

Credit: Amin Mirabbasi, Murdoch University Microalgae?based architecture is gaining attention globally as a sustainable design solution, and the concept could soon become a reality in Western Australia. Amin Mirabbasi, a Ph.D. student at Murdoch University’s newly minted Algae Innovation Hub,…

Concept and design of shape-adaptive electronics. Credit: Nature Electronics (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41928-025-01528-6 Most electronics are built on flat, stiff boards, which makes it incredibly difficult to fit them onto curved and irregular shapes we find in the real world, such…