Day January 29, 2026

Researchers in Liverpool and Oxford have found that surgery for a common elbow fracture in children offers no clinical benefit compared to non-surgical care. The findings could have significant implications for treatment and offer significant cost savings to the NHS.…

For adults with type 2 diabetes (T2D), surgery is superior to medical therapy for reducing hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels and achieving weight loss, regardless of social deprivation, according to a study published online Jan. 20 in the Annals of Internal…

Dr Daniel Layton is an expert immunologist working at CSIRO’s Australian Center for Disease Preparedness. Credit: CSIRO A fast-moving influenza strain nicknamed the “Super-K” flu is catching the attention of scientists and health authorities. Subclade K, a branch of the…

Conceptual illustration showing how high transcriptional activity driven by super-enhancers can lead to DNA breaks at oncogenes. When these breaks are repaired inaccurately, they can give rise to mutations that accumulate during tumor evolution. Credit: Osama Hidmi A new study…

The gene variant posing the greatest genetic risk of late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is called APOE-?4. A different variant of the same gene, APOE-?2, is thought to confer protection against AD. A comparatively large study reported in Alzheimer’s & Dementia,…

Loneliness is a common problem among students. However, encouraging students to socialize at an early stage can improve the well-being of this group. This is evident from an experiment with a new preventive intervention developed by researchers at Radboud University.…

Marit Uthus has studied inclusion in Norwegian schools for many years. She also leads INCLUSCHOOL, a project seeking answers to the big mystery of why more and more students are being excluded from the school community. The project concludes next…

Experts have long known that strong social networks and physical activity help older adults stay healthier. Until now, however, little has been known about how these two factors interact to affect the health and well-being of this group. Now, an…

At the start of the new year, many of us will commit to joining a gym, eating healthier or cutting back on drinking and smoking. We do this knowing that investing in our health today will pay off into the…

IFAP generates adversarial perturbations using model gradients and then shapes them in the discrete cosine transform (DCT) domain. Unlike existing frequency-aware methods that apply a fixed frequency mask, IFAP introduces an input-adaptive spectral envelope constraint derived from the input image’s…

The Milan Urban Food Policy Pact recently renewed global commitments to sustainable and equitable urban food systems. The pact has been signed by 330 cities around the world that have pledged to improve food production and distribution and to reduce…

Tumor suppression in vivo. In animal models, LS-170 treatment significantly reduced tumor volume, demonstrating its strong anti-cancer potential. Credit: Nature Chemical Biology (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41589-025-02132-7 A research team has made a breakthrough in epigenetic drug discovery. The researchers have successfully…

By 2050, an estimated 50% of the world’s population will be nearsighted, and nearly a billion people will suffer from severe myopia. To understand this alarming trend, Langis Michaud is doing a thorough review of medical literature on the subject.…

Credit: Sora Shimazaki from Pexels Regular stool tests already used in NHS care, combined with dietary information, could help identify people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) at higher risk of relapse, a major study appearing in the journal Gut suggests.…

Gay and bisexual men across the U.S. face complex, often discouraging barriers when trying to find affordable, LGBTQ?affirming mental health care, according to a new study by CUNY SPH researchers. The study is published in the journal Psychological Services. For…

Overview of a three-dimensional multiparametric ultrasound imaging system for the diagnosis and monitoring of steatotic liver disease. Credit: POSTECH Steatotic liver disease (commonly called fatty liver disease) progresses silently. Even in the absence of noticeable symptoms, changes begin to unfold…

Imagine starting the new year with the promise of at least a $147 million payout from the federal government. But there are strings attached. In late December, President Donald Trump’s administration announced how much all 50 states would get under…

Baseline characteristics of the multicentre development cohort. Credit: The Lancet Oncology (2025). DOI: 10.1016/s1470-2045(25)00534-0 Low-grade brain tumors known as IDH-mutant gliomas CNS WHO grade 2 are life-threatening in spite of their slow growth. Neurosurgeons across the globe are faced with…

Boosting staffing levels at nursing homes could improve the health of residents, a new study says. Fewer residents wound up with injuries and illnesses after an Illinois program increased staff at nursing homes with Medicaid patients, researchers report in JAMA…

Splinters are everyday injuries commonly involving a small shard of wood, glass, metal, plastic or a thorn that becomes embedded in the skin and the soft tissue underneath. The outer skin layer, known as the epidermis, has a high level…

Machinery of the jumping gene LINE1 (red) mounting an attack on the DNA (blue) of germ cells. Credit: Professor Dónal O’Carroll New insights into a sophisticated process that protects sperm cells has revealed a mechanism, similar to an immune system,…

Historically, marginalized children would benefit from better connection to specialists Only about one in six historically marginalized children with uncontrolled asthma in a Rochester, New York-based study saw an asthma specialist in the past year, despite clinical guidance recommending specialty…

People have long said that “bread is life.” Now, researchers at Tufts University are using the bubbling mixtures of flour and water known as sourdough starters to explore what shapes life at the microscopic level. Their findings, published in Ecology,…

Design and integration of solar–thermal interfacial evaporator. Credit: Advanced Science (2025). DOI: 10.1002 Monash University and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay researchers have developed a solar-powered desalination prototype that can produce safe drinking water continuously, overcoming a major technical barrier…

New research into project management in software engineering shows that the most successful systems are not the ones that follow a fixed blueprint from the start, but those that evolve in response to real challenges as projects unfold. Hybrid delivery…

Researchers at TU Wien are developing a model that interprets opinions not as diametrically opposed poles, but as overlapping areas at the group level. How can conflicts and polarization in social networks be better understood? A research team led by…

Dr. Victoria Nash, associate professor and senior policy fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, researches the governance challenges of digital technologies, with a particular focus on online safety, content moderation and platform regulation. On 10 December 2025, many younger Australian…

Housing matters. (A) The social hierarchy of the mice within each group was determined. (B) After identifying the most dominant and most subordinate mice, they were kept in neighbor-housing, where physical contact was prevented but social connections via sight and…

Inter-individual strain transmission and nursery spreading during the first term. Credit: Nature (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09983-z The microbiome of infants is shaped by social relationships from an early age and not only by family sources, finds a recent study published in…

Smartwatches with both PPG and ECG functionality improve the detection of atrial fibrillation in comparison with standard care. Researchers from Amsterdam UMC have analyzed the data from 437 patients and detected heart arrhythmia four times more often in those who…

Flinders University researchers, Professor Michael Sorich and Yuan Gao. Credit: Flinders University When lung cancer treatment stops working, what happens next? New research reveals the answer may depend on how the cancer grows. Medical researchers at Flinders University have uncovered…

Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell (2026). DOI: 10.1016 An estimated 3 million Americans have an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) such as Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis. But a lucky few individuals are far less likely to develop IBD because they have…

An MSK research team developed a sophisticated method to highlight and track cells with “high plasticity” before and after different treatments in a mouse model of lung cancer. The green cells in this image are cancer cells that emerge from…

Two separate studies suggest that minor lifestyle changes can lead to a longer life. One Norwegian-led team estimated that adding five min/day of moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity and reducing daily sedentary time by 30 min/day might prevent a proportion of…

The days can seem endless in Canadian prisons—and yet, inside, inmates actually age faster than on the outside. Why? Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta Jim A. Johansson explores that question with UdeM Faculty of Nursing professor Étienne Paradis-Gagné…

fRSOM procedure to assess skin microvasculature endothelial function. Credit: Light: Science & Applications (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41377-025-02103-6 Researchers from Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed “fast-RSOM,” a new imaging technology that can capture detailed images of…

Model architecture combining ConvNeXt, ResNet, and Swin Transformer for weighted prediction. Credit: Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X (2025). DOI: 10.1016 What if the earliest signs of skin cancer could be identified sooner—before a dermatology appointment? Researchers at the University of Missouri…

Graphical abstract. Credit: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1021 Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) aid the body against autoimmune diseases and cancer, among other things. Patients have to pick up the medicine every few weeks. It would be easier…

Subtle abnormalities in kidney function—even within the range considered normal—may help identify people at risk of developing chronic kidney disease. This is shown in a new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Kidney International. The researchers have therefore developed a…

A blood test, combined with an ultrathin material derived from graphite, could significantly advance efforts to detect Alzheimer’s disease at its very earliest stage, even before symptoms appear. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia. For millions of…