Day March 17, 2026

Credit: Rene Terp from Pexels About one in 20 infants worldwide is subjected to physical abuse by a caregiver in their first two years of life. That’s the central finding of a new study co-led by researchers from the UBC…

A, B: Two resting state networks are altered in babies with congenital heart disease preoperation, but after surgery these networks are similar to healthy babies. C, D: Postoperative resting state network spatial patterns (red boxes) more closely match controls and…

Illustration of motile bacteria encountering a sinking organic particle (“marine snow”), colonizing it, reproducing, and releasing offspring that disperse to search for additional particles. Credit: Vicente I. Fernandez, Stocker Lab/ETH Zurich How can bacteria that forage on organic particles survive…

Credit: Maia Fotografia from Pexels Getting tough on youth crime is politically easy. Building a youth justice system that is safe, accountable and capable of learning is much harder. And the public is worried. Some offenses are serious and visible,…

Salk researchers used spatial transcriptomics to map where different cell types reside in the mouse brain. Shown are excitatory neurons (left, blue), inhibitory neurons (middle, red), and non-neuronal cells (right, green), color-coded by cell type. Credit: Salk Institute Neurodegenerative diseases…

Ks-band Gemini observation of ASKAP J1424 with Stokes I radio contours from ATCA C3363 observation overlaid. Credit: arXiv (2026). DOI: 10.48550 Using the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP), astronomers have discovered a new long-period radio transient source, which received the designation…

Professor Yin Huiyong, professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at CityUHK (right), and his research assistant, Dr Zhong Shanshan. Credit: City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) About 40% of East Asians suffer from alcohol intolerance, known as “Asian Flush…

Image showing that protein-based artificial kinetochores (magenta) can interact with spindle microtubules (green) in a similar manner to chromosomes (cyan). Credit: 2026 Yuanzhuo Zhou For sexual reproduction to yield healthy offspring, newly generated oocytes—immature egg cells—must receive the correct amount…

Credit: AI-generated image Most people know only two things about the appendix: You don’t need it—and if it bursts, you need surgery fast. That basic story traces back at least to Charles Darwin, the English naturalist who developed the theory…

A volunteer patient performs the six-minute walk test, which is used to assess functional capacity. Credit: UFSCar Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is known for causing breathing difficulties and limiting everyday activities. Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), on the other…

For decades, one of the greatest challenges to treating neurological disorders like attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is that its symptoms often resemble those of several other conditions. Overlapping disorders are extremely common when it comes to neurological diagnoses. A child who struggles…

Media pH (abscissa) differentially affects ?-lactamase resistance (MIC, ordinate). Credit: Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2026). DOI: 10.1128 New research from the Technical University of Denmark indicates that the outcome of a resistance measurement may depend on the conditions under which…

A blockbuster anti-obesity and diabetes drug could cost as little as $3 per month to manufacture once it goes off patent later this month, researchers said Friday, providing a major opportunity to boost health in low- and middle-income countries. Semaglutide,…

The Southern Ocean—vast, boundless waters surrounding Antarctica—plays an outsized role in global climate, largely thanks to tiny drifting organisms called plankton that soak up carbon. Reporting in Nature Communications on March 9, researchers have completed the most comprehensive survey to…

An illustration of the environment in which artificial agents were allowed to “walk” and make their own predictions about what they would experience depending on where they moved along the graph. (ECCO Lab). Credit: ECCO Lab / Emory University It…

(A) Schematic overview over the CombiCell experimental system. (B) Mean (circles) and nonlinear fits (lines) of CombiCell cytotoxicity in % expressing ICAM1-FL or ICAM1-TL, respectively loaded with different concentrations of CD19. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2026).…

Choosing a Tinder profile picture may feel like a free, personal and creative act. But how true is that? A new study from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) shows that, far from being unique, most users follow one of…

Credit: Brain Research (2026). DOI: 10.1016 Increasing our level of physical fitness leads to a bigger release of brain-boosting proteins following one session of exercise, finds a new study led by a UCL researcher. The study, published in Brain Research,…

Colon cancer is now the deadliest cancer for adults under 50, yet it remains one of the most preventable since polyps detected and removed during screening can’t turn into cancer later. But a new nationwide survey commissioned by the Colorectal…

One in three Americans said they made some sacrifice last year—like skipping a meal or rationing medicine—to cover health care costs, according to a survey released Thursday. High health care costs, especially compared to peer nations, represent a significant portion…

Many Americans remain uneasy about driverless cars. According to new research, their concerns go far beyond safety. A new study from the University of California San Diego found that most Americans worry the technology could lead to job losses, with…

According to the researchers, including unfermented beans in Amazonian chocolate production would provide a powerful antioxidant boost to the human body, potentially transforming it into a superfood. Credit: Edilaine Traspadini Chocolate produced in the Amazon is internationally recognized for its…

A) Immunoblot profile of synthetic A? preparation containing monomers, dimers, trimers, tetramers and high molecular weight oligomers. B) IF staining of HuC/D, Tuj1 (green) and A? (red) in Ctrl and A?-treated pure enteric neurons isolated from WT rat. Scale bar,…

Alternative medicine use instead of traditional therapy was associated with much lower 5-year survival. Credit: Leeloo The First: www.pexels.com/photo/a-pink-ribbon-on-white-calendar-7805646/ The alternative medicine industry is expanding rapidly, fueled in large part by the surge of health-related content on social media. This…

A novel approach has identified drugs in current use that could be repurposed for treating alcohol use disorder (AUD). In 2023, 28 million US adults had experienced AUD in the past year. But only three medications are approved by the…

Credit: Photos Hobby, Unsplash Artificial intelligence may be reshaping modern medicine, but when it comes to their own health, patients still want to know a real person is watching the screen. Researchers at the University of Michigan and Michigan State…

Results from the RAPID-MIRACLE trial have found, for the first time, that the widely used MIRACLE2 risk score can be applied outside a hospital setting to accurately predict brain injury following a cardiac arrest. This could inform the type of…

Brain activity linked to speech sounds. This shows brain map illustrating areas where activity changed depending on how clear the speech was. Warmer colors show regions that became more active when speech was harder to understand and required more listening…

Many teens dealing with weight issues are turning to AI models to help them create meal plans with the aim of losing weight. But a new study shows that the resulting plans may not always adequately cover necessary nutrients and…

Overview. Credit: Nature Human Behaviour (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02324-0 People’s decisions are known to be influenced by past experiences, including the outcomes of earlier choices. For over a century, psychologists have been trying to shed light on the processes underpinning human…

Examples of mammograms showing mild, moderate and severe calcification. Credit: European Heart Journal / Hari Trivedi The risk of serious or fatal heart disease can be predicted with artificial intelligence (AI) analysis of mammograms, according to research published in the…

BiT-MAML adopts meta-learning to address inter-patient variability and a hybrid architecture to capture both short-term and long-term patterns in BG levels. The proposed evaluation scheme shows a new approach for predicting BG levels in patients while accounting for inter-patient variability.…

An AI-driven tool that tailors antidepressant treatment to individual patients was shown to improve outcomes for people with depression, compared to standard treatment, in a major international trial. It is the first time ever a mental health clinical prediction tool…

A new study in JCOM finds they reduce trust in true scientific info while boosting false claims—a “truth–falsity crossover effect” that challenges current transparency policies. Credit: Federica Sgorbissa—SISSA Medialab The growing use of AI-generated scientific and science-related content, especially on…

Around 1 in 4 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany now uses artificial intelligence (AI)—primarily to free up staff from routine tasks. In future, SMEs will increasingly need skilled workers with AI expertise. Otherwise, they risk facing recruitment difficulties…

The overall designed annotation pipeline of StructEval dataset. Credit: On arXiv. DOI: 10.48550 New research from the University of Waterloo shows that artificial intelligence (AI) still struggles with some basic software development tasks, raising questions about how reliably AI systems…

The integration of large language model-based AI chatbots into multiple facets of our everyday lives has opened us up to advantages that would have been considered impossible even a decade ago. The same development has, however, opened us up to…

The UK’s first comprehensive evaluation of the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in breast cancer screening found that it can increase breast cancer detection by 10.4% and has the potential to reduce the workload of health care workers by more…

The PanMETAI platform integrates AI with NMR metabolomics to detect pancreatic cancer from a small blood sample, offering a rapid and non-invasive diagnostic tool validated across international cohorts. Credit: Nature Communications A team of researchers from Taiwan has developed PanMETAI,…

Segmented and labeled images of a normal brain. Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute WPI researchers have used a form of artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze anatomical changes in the brain and predict Alzheimer’s disease with nearly 93% accuracy. Their research, published…