Day March 1, 2026

When couples attend relationship counseling, it benefits not only their partnership but also their individual well-being. But which aspects of the training are most influential in this respect? A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign published in the…

Credit: Emerging Technologies Lab/Copilot As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in everyday life and public institutions, trust in the companies developing AI is emerging as a critical societal issue. A new international study led by researchers at Tampere University shows…

Partial reprogramming of engram cells rescues age-related cellular hallmarks and memory. Credit: Neuron (2026). DOI: 10.1016 Age-related memory decline and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s are often thought of as irreversible. But the brain is not static; neurons continually adjust the…

A major study by UCL and Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori in Milan (INT) researchers has for the first time shown in detail how far children’s cancer has spread at diagnosis in a way that can be compared between…

Overall image summarizing the findings of this study. Credit: Moe Ishikawa-Fukuda The enzyme Na?-NQR is a sodium pump that drives the respiration of many marine and pathogenic bacteria. Using redox reactions, the process of exchanging electrons between materials, it powers…

Scientists at Gladstone Institutes have discovered that red blood cells act as hidden glucose sponges in low-oxygen conditions, explaining why people living at high altitude have lower diabetes rates and pointing toward new treatments. Credit: Gladstone Institutes Scientists have long…

Credit: Jo McNamara from Pexels Imperial College London investigators compared focal therapy with prostate removal surgery for men with prostate cancer that returned after radiotherapy. Matched analyses estimated 10-year cancer-specific survival at 92% after focal therapy and 99% after prostate…

Scientists have solved how circadian clocks within cyanobacteria, tiny organisms also known as blue-green algae, are able to precisely control when different genes are turned on and off during the 24-hour cycle. Credit: Mingxu Fang, UC San Diego and Ohio…

Scientists evaluated the cost-effectiveness of pregabalin, duloxetine, and milnacipran compared with amitriptyline in adults with moderate to severe fibromyalgia. Credit: Karolina Grabowska www.kaboompics.com from Pexels Fibromyalgia is a long-term chronic condition that causes widespread pain in the muscles and soft…

Cover image with an anatomical heart. Credit: Pensoft publishers A new study reveals that the predictive power of key inflammatory markers, such as C-reactive protein, shifts fundamentally depending on whether a patient suffers from cirrhosis or acute/chronic coronary disease. Measured…

Silent clapping, often referred to as “jazz hands,” is becoming popular as a way to make events more neurodivergent friendly. A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that both neurodivergent and neurotypical people are generally positive towards the practice, although…

Credit: Edson de la O/Santa Fe Institute The race to develop a virtual scientist—an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication—has consumed researchers, start-up founders, and tech juggernauts alike. It has also illuminated fundamental philosophical…

Intratumoral Flt3L expression leads to a stem-like CD8+ T?cell population. Credit: Nature Immunology (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41590-026-02419-4 Immune Checkpoint Blockade (ICB) has revolutionized the treatment of cancers like melanoma, but up to 60% of patients don’t respond to this immunotherapy for…

Credit: Helena Lopes from Pexels An alarming 71% of grocery store baby food products in the United States are classified as ultra-processed foods (UPFs), according to new research published in the journal Nutrients. Researchers at The George Institute for Global…

Trembling hydrogen: Even at absolute zero, the two hydrogen atoms H1 and H2 of formic acid vibrate and thereby protrude from the plane of carbon (C) and oxygen (O). Credit: Institute for Nuclear Physics, Goethe University Frankfurt Traditional chemistry textbooks…

(a) A two-telescope array of baseline b points toward two weakly emitting stars of angular separation 2?. A star photon arriving at site A is shown. (b) The incoming photon is fed into a spatial mode demultiplexer (SPADE). An excitation…

Credit: Kampus Production from Pexels Recent research at Åbo Akademi University highlights that promoting thriving is essential for older people in care homes and constitutes a cornerstone of high-quality aged care. Ann-Sofie Silvennoinen’s doctoral thesis in health sciences is the…

Protein EpiScore development procedure. The Protein EpiScores were trained in the Scottish Lothian Birth Cohort and German KORA cohorts, which had available data on paired plasma protein levels and blood DNA methylation profiles. Credit: Clinical Epigenetics (2026). DOI: 10.1186/s13148-026-02059-3 A…

The new moon on Feb. 17 marks the start of the Lunar New Year, a celebration originating in China that today is celebrated around the world. According to the Chinese zodiac, 2026 is the year of the Fire Horse, symbolizing…

Heart disease, particularly a heart attack, can feel like it comes out of nowhere. However, the truth is that certain behaviors put us at risk—and changing those behaviors is largely within our control. Most heart disease risk can be attributed…

Up to 40% of adults in the United States have chronic venous insufficiency, a condition in which veins in the legs don’t function properly, preventing blood flow back to the heart. Miguel F. Manzur, MD, a vascular surgeon with the…

Meghan Puglia stretches out on a couch in her lab, surrounded by children’s books and toys. She studies the explosive growth that unfolds in a child’s brain from birth to about 3, and how parents and caretakers can maximize a…

Shaili Gupta often sees patients who consult chatbots like ChatGPT for health advice. She finds that some of her patients are much more informed about health-related issues and have follow-up questions that show a much better awareness that they didn’t…

In a softly lit Shanghai bar, graduate student Helen Zhao stretched out both wrists to have her pulse taken—the first step to ordering the house special, a bespoke “health” cocktail based on traditional Chinese medicine. “TCM bars” have popped up…

Cognitive reappraisal moderated the link between war exposure and burnout among high school teachers. Credit: Psychiatry Research (2026). DOI: 10.1016 Beyond the lesson plans and grading, teachers during the war had to manage a complex layer of war-related stress that…

Graphical abstract. Credit: Communications Biology (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s42003-025-09492-9 Psychedelic substances are increasingly being used under medical supervision to treat anxiety disorders and depression. However, the mechanisms by which these substances influence our perception and consciousness are largely unknown. A research…

Glioma of the left parietal lobe. CT scan with contrast enhancement. Credit: Mikhail Kalinin/CC BY-SA 3.0 A study by investigators from Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute evaluates the efficacy and safety of proton therapy for patients with lower grade gliomas…

A new method lets researchers visualize messenger RNA translation across different brain cell types. In this image, CA3 pyramidal neurons of the mouse hippocampus glow magenta, indicating especially high rates of protein production. Credit: Scripps Research The brain’s ability to…

Stages in pro-?-carboxysome condensate formation and carboxysome maturation. Credit: Nature Plants (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41477-026-02227-6 An international team of scientists has discovered that a small, low-abundance protein plays a surprisingly big role in assembling carboxysomes—specialized bacterial microcompartments that enable efficient carbon…

In an early test of how AI can be used to decipher large amounts of health data, researchers at UC San Francisco and Wayne State University found that generative AI tools could perform orders of magnitude faster—and in some cases…

Credit: ACS Omega (2025). DOI: 10.1021 A study warns that the prolonged use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) can impair nutrient absorption. PPIs are a class of drugs including medications such as omeprazole, pantoprazole, and esomeprazole. They are used to…

A vast majority of professional athletes believe they should be allowed to engage in political activism and intend to use their social media channels to raise awareness about racial injustice, according to a report issued today by the Race and…

ISB Associate Professor Dr. Sean Gibbons, right, discusses a microbial community–scale metabolic model of an individual’s gut, generated from MICOM data, with members of his lab. Credit: Trevor Dykstra for ISB (CC-BY 4.0, creativecommons.org) A new study demonstrates that computer…

In a synopsis of a clinical practice guideline issued by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and U.S. Department of Defense and published online Feb. 17 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, updated recommendations are presented for the primary care…

States with highly concentrated pbm markets for prescriptions disepsensed at retail pharmacies, 2023. Credit: USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics Just three pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) dominate retail prescriptions in Medicare Part D and Medicaid managed care across…

Credit: White Gold Photography from Pexels Exposure to infection and other immune stress in the womb increases the likelihood of alcohol misuse in adulthood, a risk that may be reduced through prenatal antioxidant treatment, a new Washington State University study…

Exposure to lead before birth is associated with lower performance 60 years later on tests of thinking and memory skills in female participants, according to a study published in Neurology. The study does not prove that lead exposure is the…

Alcohol consumption during early pregnancy in Ireland is significantly lower than previously reported, according to new research. Previous estimates, based largely on self-reported data, suggested that between 20% and 60% of pregnant women in Ireland consumed alcohol. These figures are…

Despite clear laws that guarantee the protection of pregnant women and new mothers in the workplace, many Brazilian women still experience a reality far from what is stipulated on paper. A study involving 652 women in the immediate postpartum period…

Researchers at Amsterdam UMC have discovered that a second pregnancy alters the female brain. Previous research from the same group had already demonstrated the impact of a first pregnancy on the female brain. The new results are published in Nature…