Day April 14, 2026

Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has made achieving artificial superintelligence a high priority for the tech firm. Meta on Wednesday released an artificial intelligence model, Muse Spark, it touts as smarter and faster than what it offered before shaking up…

Comparison between CMOS-based and memristor-based approaches (CLAP). Credit: The University of Hong Kong A cross-institutional research team has developed Co-Located Authentication and Processing (CLAP), a privacy-preserving system that overcomes the trade-off between security and performance in edge computing devices. The…

Gradient-driven memristor enables stable reinforcement learning. Credit: Haifeng Ling. In a recent study published in Nature Communications, researchers created a memristor that uses a built-in oxygen gradient to produce slow, stable conductance changes, enabling a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm to…

Water membranes for gas separations. Credit: Nature Communications (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-70630-w Gas separation membranes are vital for carbon capture, biogas upgrading, and hydrogen purification, all of which require the separation of carbon dioxide from gases like nitrogen, methane and hydrogen.…

Anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are among the most common mental health conditions for which Australians are prescribed medicinal cannabis. Most prescriptions for mental health conditions, and for other conditions more broadly, are for products containing higher levels…

BAP1 deubiquitinated components of the GG-NER recognition pathway. Credit: Science Translational Medicine (2026). DOI: 10.1126 A team of scientists led by the National Cancer Center Singapore (NCCS) and Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS) has found a new approach for treating some…

A University of Houston researcher and his collaborators have developed a mathematical model that helps identify whether a competitive environment is healthy, stagnant or skewed. Published in the journal npj Complexity, the study led by UH Computer Science Professor Ioannis…

Egg photographed in the control room of the ESRF in France. Credit: Professor Julien Benoit A remarkable new discovery is shedding light on one of the greatest survival stories in Earth’s history, and answering a decades-old scientific mystery. Lystrosaurus, a…

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center have found that adults aged 80 and older with early-stage lung cancer can safely undergo surgery and achieve outcomes comparable to younger patients,…

Researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina and elsewhere have linked loneliness in patients with chronic leg and foot wounds to increased expression of genes that are related to inflammation. These pro-inflammatory genes turn on during injury or illness…

In new research to be presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO2026) in Istanbul, Turkey (12–15 May), researchers show an increased risk of stroke in young adulthood for children of low birthweight, independent of their body mass index…

Flight line workers push a Southwest Airlines aircraft away from a gate at Love Field Airport in Dallas, Monday, March 16, 2026. Credit: AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez Travelers will soon face restrictions on how many portable chargers they can carry on…

If crossing your legs feels comfortable, there is little reason to treat it as dangerous. Credit: cottonbro studio/Pexels Most of us were told off at some point for how we sat. “Don’t cross your legs, you’ll ruin your knees.” “You’ll…

Marketers need to pay more attention to how marketing practices normalize the consumption of products that are known to be harmful to public health and social well-being, University of Otago—?t?kou Whakaihu Waka researchers argue. A new paper led by Associate…

Researchers have used a laser to write conductive patterns onto leather, creating microsupercapacitors that can store energy and help smooth electrical signals. Credit: Dong-Dong Han, Jilin University Researchers have developed a simple and eco-friendly way to use a laser to…

When leaders express negative emotions such as irritability and withdrawal, behavior is often judged differently for male and female leaders, according to new research from Griffith University published in the International Journal of Stress Management. The study of 190 professionals…

Anthropic on Tuesday said its yet-to-be-released artificial intelligence model called Claude Mythos has proven keenly adept at exposing software weaknesses. Mythos has laid bare thousands of vulnerabilities in commonly used applications for which no patch or fix exists, prompting the…

Latin American people are represented in fewer than 4% of genetic epidemiological studies around the world. When they are included, they’re often lumped together as one group, despite the rich diversity among different Latin American populations. This lack of data…

Schema of main effects of concreteness across multiple processing windows. Credit: PLOS Biology (2026). DOI: 10.1371 Multiple regions of the brain engage in fast-moving conversations to understand language, UTHealth Houston researchers have discovered, dispelling a prior school of thought that…

Left panel: An 18-week-old pineal gland organoid stained for cell nuclei (blue), the enzyme responsible for the first step of melatonin production (green), and the enzyme responsible for the final step of melatonin production (pink). Right panel: An 18-week-old pineal…

Kratom. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. DMTrott. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Proposals to ban or regulate kratom, a plant-based substance sold in gas stations, convenience stores and vape shops, are making headlines in local newspapers across the United States.…

A section of the mouse vomeronasal organ where a specific subset of neurons are shown in green alongside an expanded endoplasmic reticulum in magenta. Credit: Adish Dani Lab, TIFR-Hyderabad Researchers at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Hyderabad have…

You have probably never heard the term “crimefluencer.” These are members of decentralized online crime networks who take crime content and amplify it to build notoriety and status in their online communities. They also recruit content creators to film themselves…

A new tool designed to support people with dementia when being discharged from mental health hospitals has been co-designed and evaluated by researchers at The University of Manchester. The SAFER-Dem intervention shows promise as an effective, patient-centered approach to improving…

Researchers developed an intelligent monitoring pipe that combines optical sensing with machine learning algorithms to monitor and predict 3D soil settlement. The sensor is shown together with the physical map of the bonding of the 3D-printed dog-bone-shaped protective structure. Credit:…

Credit: Cell Reports (2026). DOI: 10.1016 A hormone that reverses obesity in mice appears to work by signaling to a brain region involved in metabolism and appetite regulation, the same area targeted by the popular GLP-1 drugs. The finding, by…

Vaccine uptake data have been examined to assess the impact of moving from a “2+1” to a “1+1” Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) dose schedule on vaccine coverage and health inequalities among infants in England. Persistent inequalities remain a major barrier…

The microphysiologic system (MPS). Credit: Katherine Nelson et al Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) not only impact an individual’s health, but also result in multibillion-dollar economic losses worldwide. To study these diseases, a team of researchers has developed the first-of-its-kind, immune-capable…

Credit: University of New South Wales UNSW researchers have redesigned hydrogen fuel cells to solve a critical flaw, bringing clean energy for aviation, heavy transport and beyond closer to reality. Hydrogen fuel cells, using locally produced green hydrogen as the…

Humor plays a vital role in helping older adults cope with the challenges of aging and staying socially connected, according to new research. The research team at Aberystwyth University drew on in-depth interviews with older adults across Wales, Scotland and…

Experimental procedure, pRF modeling, and regions of interest (ROIs). Credit: PLOS Biology (2026). DOI: 10.1371 How does Jannik Sinner manage to hit the ball at exactly the right moment, with remarkable precision? And how do we, in everyday life, perceive…

Women’s HRT patches can treat prostate cancer just as effectively as standard hormone injections—but with fewer of the worst side effects—according to a large UK trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The finding could change how men…

Researchers from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital have found more than an estimated 240,800 visits to U.S. emergency departments (EDs) associated with household cleaning product-related injuries from 2007 through 2022 for children aged five…

Graphical Abstract. Credit: Clinical Infectious Diseases (2026). DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciag038 Timely HIV diagnosis and treatment are critical to preventing transmission. To help make this happen, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides funding for HIV testing to local…

Graphical abstract. Credit: Immunity (2026). DOI: 10.1016 In a preclinical study from Mass General Brigham, researchers have found that even short-term exposure to high levels of dietary fat results in a quick and selective loss of critical gut immune cells…

Structural and chemical characterization of PBSCF and PLNNCBSCF. XRD patterns of a) the synthesized PBSCF and PLNNCBSCF and b) enlarged view of the XRD patterns from 31.5 to 33.5°. c) Rietveld refinement results of the XRD profile for PLNNCBSCF, with…

Long working hours affected sleep quality in both men and women and also correlated with poor mental health in women. Credit: Osaka Metropolitan University Mental load, invisible work, “the extra shift”; no matter the newly coined term, unpaid work in…

Oral Cancer Awareness Month is observed every April, and it highlights the urgent need for early detection. According to the American Cancer Society, oral and oropharyngeal cancers still claim about one life every hour in the U.S. This year, 59,600…

A new study led by Thao Le of the University of Hawai?i at M?noa’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience (CTAHR) and retired epidemiologist Dan Galanis with Hawai?i State Department of Health Emergency Medical Services and Injury Prevention System…

Conceptual illustration of how green skepticism reduces purchase intention by lowering information seeking and a sense of responsibility. Credit: Eunji Seo / Hiroshima University Skepticism about claims regarding sustainability reduces consumers’ intentions to purchase sustainable products by weakening two important…