Ball-and-stick model of the dopamine molecule, a neurotransmitter that affects the brain’s reward and pleasure centers. Credit: Jynto/Wikipedia You sit down to start a task you care about. Nothing happens. You open your phone instead. Minutes turn into hours. You…

Credit: Advances in Nutrition (2026). DOI: 10.1016 A major new review led by Swansea University has highlighted growing evidence that diet in the early years of life may shape how well the brain develops, with effects that can still be…

Graphical abstract. Credit: Journal of Proteome Research (2026). DOI: 10.1021 Sleep loss dulls alertness and coordination, and it can produce effects similar to severe intoxication, making actions like driving incredibly risky. But there’s no clinical test for determining when someone…

Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is a common condition in preterm infants in which the fetal blood vessel connection between the aorta and the pulmonary artery does not close normally after birth. The condition can increase the risk of serious illness…

Functional connectivity with the subcallosal anterior cingulate cortex is altered consistently across individual macaque subjects by deep brain stimulation. Credit: Nature Neuroscience (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-026-02301-4 Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have uncovered the first direct…

Daylight saving time isn’t just a seasonal inconvenience—it may also pose significant neuropsychological risks for the hundreds of millions of people worldwide who experience biannual clock shifts, especially those living with chronic mental illnesses. That’s according to a major new…

In Las Vegas May 2026, athletes compete in an international sporting event that explicitly allows them to use performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). The Enhanced Games openly encourages competitors to use substances banned in virtually every mainstream sport, including anabolic steroids, erythropoietin…

Sociocultural factors influencing the manifestation, reporting of symptoms, and health care utilization by patients with DGBI. Credit: Gastroenterology (2026). DOI: 10.1053 Abdominal pain before an important exam, nausea during intense stress, or sudden intestinal problems following difficult life experiences—many people…

Credit: Ben Cheers from Pexels How competition is presented to children in grassroots sport has a massive impact on how much they enjoy physical activity, according to researchers at Coventry University. The study, led by Michael Duncan, professor of sport…

UNLV postdoctoral fellow Sujan Chatterjee. Credit: (Josh Hawkins/UNLV) When the intestinal lining breaks down, harmful gut bacterial antigens can slip into the bloodstream alongside nutrients. This breach in the gut’s protective barrier, known as “leaky gut,” is more than a…

Ebola virus isolated in November 2014 from patient blood samples obtained in Mali. The virus was isolated on Vero cells. Credit: NIAID Several non-profit organizations announced Monday they are ramping up efforts to rapidly develop a vaccine for the rare…

The recent Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks, respectively in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, and on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, remind us that the next health crisis is never far away. They also illustrate the World…

Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, right, shakes hands with Ezo Etienne, a health worker who recovered from Ebola in Bunia, Congo, Sunday, May 31, 2026. Credit: AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa At least 282 confirmed cases…

Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, right, shakes hands with Ezo Etienne, a health worker who recovered from Ebola in Bunia, Congo, Sunday, May 31, 2026. Credit: AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa At least 282 cases of…

The Ebola outbreak raging in central Africa had a “big head start,” the World Health Organization chief acknowledged Wednesday, but insisted efforts to rein in the deadly virus were making progress. The outbreak, which was declared on May 15 in…

Credit: Miguel Á. Padriñán from Pexels The latest Ebola outbreak is showing no signs of slowing. On April 24, the first suspected case of the rare Bundibugyo strain of Ebola was detected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).…

Flocks of birds soar over wetlands at the Kennedy Space Center. Credit: NASA Waterlogged land areas such as marshes, bogs and fens are the world’s largest natural source of methane. Even the smallest of wetlands emit this powerful greenhouse gas.…

Cloud radiative effect dominates spatial variability of R. Credit: Nature (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10624-2 Earth is divided into two halves: the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Both reflect equal amounts of sunlight (albedo) even though they have different landmasses and weather patterns,…

When a person goes through a traumatic experience, they often find themselves thinking that what happened could have been different or even avoided. This process, known as counterfactual thinking, is an automatic psychological response to adverse events. Now, a study…

In IgG4-related disease, B cells (above) attack the body’s own tissue. A study led by Stanford Medicine has found that a drug reduces the chance of relapse. Credit: National Institutes of Health Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues found that…

Semaglutide reduces body weight and muscle mass while preserving muscle function in obese mice. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2026). DOI: 10.1073 Millions of Americans are currently taking GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic or Wegovy for weight…

Credit: Journal of Clinical Investigation (2026). DOI: 10.1172/jci201541 Two existing types of drugs synergize to improve the clearing of mucus from the lungs of animals with cystic fibrosis, a Stanford Medicine research team has found. The findings are published in…

New research from the University of Oxford provides the first quantitative evidence that drought exposure over the last 12 months is associated with an increased risk of sexual, emotional and physical violence among adolescents in Southern Africa. This risk rises…

Credit: Nucleic Acids Research (2026). DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkag479 DNA is the blueprint of the human body. However, tens of thousands of DNA lesions occur in our bodies every day. In particular, if “apurinic/apyrimidinic sites” (AP sites, damaged sites where one letter…

A News and Perspectives report on emerging pharmaceutical access models in the United States has been published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. In “Affordable GLP-1? When Digital Platforms Meet Policy Reform“, a JMIR Correspondent Xiangming Jenny Zhan investigates…

Data from 1,028 people vaccinated with TAK-003 in Catalonia suggests the dengue vaccine has a good tolerability profile in routine clinical practice among travelers from regions where dengue is not endemic. The findings come from a study led by the…

Glass Brain Representation of the Top 5 Regions of Interest (ROIs) Indicated for the Primary Comparisons. Credit: Neurology Open Access (2026). DOI: 10.1212 Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias are expected to more than double by 2060. As June marks Alzheimer’s…

Researchers advocate for community-driven, on-demand weather observations, helping Arctic communities be better prepared for the challenges of climate change. Credit: Prof. Jun Inoue from National Institute of Polar Research, Japan Arctic communities are increasingly exposed to dangerous weather events due…

Levels of HIV prevention and health care services vary by county across the Southeastern U.S. Ole Miss researchers have published a prevention gap index, a tool to show where HIV-related health care may not meet the needs of the county’s…

Thalassodoron bathyale n. gen. et n. sp. CLSM images of holotype. (A) Urosome. (B, C, D) Antennule. Scale bars = 200 µm. Credit: PeerJ (2026). DOI: 10.7717 An international research team, including Dr. Nancy Mercado Salas from the Leibniz Institute…

A complete H. marismortui cell, captured by one of the co-authors in a previous paper. The long tubular extensions seen in the picture are the archaeal filaments, which stretch out from the main body of the cell. The scale bar…

A new technology allows scientists to map, in single cells, the DNA binding sites of transcription factors and other regulatory proteins that control gene activity, according to a study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York…

Design and mechanism of AEHs. Credit: Nature Biomedical Engineering (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41551-026-01681-z Tissue expansion is a common technique used in reconstructive surgery. Surgeons slowly stretch nearby skin to grow extra tissue that can be used to rebuild areas such as…

Credit: Etatics Inc. from Pexels To address the growing problem of overprescribing for seniors, a new Canadian guideline is calling for routine medication reviews. In Canada, roughly two in three adults age 65 or older take five or more medications.…

Representative images of the brain tissue sections taken from animals injected with AAV-BR1-Rosa26 or – Col4a1-sgRNA. Brain tissues were subjected to immunofluorescence staining using antibodies against mCherry and COL4A1. Magnified images from the cerebral cortex, striatum, and hippocampus were shown…

In 2018, Caitlin Caspi started a five-year research project looking at how raising the minimum wage could impact nutrition-related health outcomes. Caspi is an associate professor of allied health sciences in the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources (CAHNR),…

Temporal patterns in vocal activity of 13 bird species at Gabon’s six bioacoustic baseline sites. Based on 3?months of recordings from 12th October 2022 to 19th January 2023. Blue dots represent the relative probability of a species calling over a…

Persistently low rates of COVID-19 vaccination in Black and Hispanic children suggest that parents in these communities tend to be hesitant about the vaccine for their kids, even when they have received it themselves. Through interviews with parents of school-aged…

A schematic overview of the study. In individuals with autism spectrum disorder, lower plasma copper levels were associated with clinical symptom scores, whereas reduced white matter volume was associated with social symptom scores. In a mouse model, developmental copper deficiency…

Researchers from VIB, VUB, and an international network of collaborators have created the most comprehensive single-cell atlas to date of tumor-associated dendritic cells. By integrating data from 14 mouse tumor models and 10 human cancer types, the study provides a…