Researchers found that three cell types enter a senescent state during development: vascular endothelial cells (red), brain-resident macrophages (green) and choroid plexus epithelial cells (yellow). Credit: Ella Maru Studio, conceptualized by Ashley Watson and Hiruy Meharena Among the body’s most…

Researchers have created a zebrafish model of a challenging inherited neuropathy, CADASIL, to complement mouse research, which enabled them to pinpoint how collagen loss and a specific protein mutation affect disease development. Credit: Professor Motoyuki Itoh, Chiba University, Japan CADASIL,…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week shared findings from the 2025 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS). The American Heart Association has issued the following statement: “The latest survey on youth tobacco use shows meaningful progress, with fewer…

Adolescents in rural Appalachian communities face disproportionate mental health risks and geographic isolation, but new research from Georgetown University’s Berkley School of Nursing suggests that youth-led environmental design can foster a unique form of “Situated Strength.” The study, published June…

Credit: Finley M from Pexels You come home after a stressful day and reach out to your cat for a bit of comfort. It hisses. Maybe takes a swipe. Or simply flicks its tail and saunters off without so much…

It has often been suggested that we now live in a “post-truth” world. People increasingly rely on their own feelings as a yardstick for what is true. Psychologists at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have now developed the “Youniversalism” scale…

Younger people with bowel cancer in Aotearoa are waiting months for a diagnosis, are frequently misdiagnosed and often receive little information and support, according to the largest nationwide study of its kind published in the New Zealand Medical Journal. Researchers…

Credit: Helena Lopes from Pexels Which major life events matter to young people? A study by the University of Zurich (UZH) shows that adolescents and young adults primarily cite positive, everyday developmental steps as formative events, for example, school and…

What makes a speaker engaging? Both what is said and how it is said matter, but in different, complementary ways, a new study conducted at the McGill School of Communication Sciences and Disorders has found. When people try to sound…

Ebola survivors had a broad range of neurological symptoms during and after infection. Credit: Miguel Á. Padriñán for pexels. Ebola virus disease is caused by infection with an orthobolavirus found primarily in sub-Saharan Africa and can be fatal in 50%…

3-D sensory and motor homunculus models at the Natural History Museum, London. Credit: Wikipedia Joe Kiff, CC BY-SA 3.0 For almost a century, budding neuroscientists have been taught that the headband-like strip of brain tissue over our ears that controls…

JMIR Publications today released an article on a brief, scalable intervention for post-traumatic stress disorder in its News and Perspectives section. Authored by JMIR correspondent Candice Marie Sage, Ph.D., “Written Exposure Therapy as Transformative, Scalable Care for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder”…

Blood–brain barrier efflux limits brain penetration of mebendazole polymorph C, whereas elacridar increases central nervous system exposure. Credit: British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology (2026). DOI: 10.1002 A drug widely used to combat intestinal worms has shown promise in treating brain…

Credit: cottonbro studio from Pexels QIMR Berghofer scientists have uncovered hundreds of genes that play a role in the growth of both moles and melanoma, in a discovery that could lead to new ways of preventing and treating the deadliest…

WWOX in brain homeostasis, neurological disease, and emerging therapeutic strategies. Credit: Neurobiology of Disease (2026). DOI: 10.1016 An 8-month-old infant with severe genetic epilepsy has become the first patient in the world to receive an experimental gene replacement therapy designed…

A new tool developed by Northeastern researchers gives public health experts the ability to track increased risk of diseases during the World Cup. Credit: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Spread across 11 U.S. host cities, the 2026 World Cup is bringing together…

Argentina’s Lionel Messi, England’s Bukayo Saka, Spain’s Lamine Yamal and Egypt’s Mohamed Salah are all highly skilled soccer players in slightly different ways, as is the tall, powerful and technically proficient Norwegian Erling Haaland. What unites all these players, however,…

Credit: Gillingham Town from Pexels It’s a Darwinian jungle out there in sportsland. Players with the right stuff are selected, and those without it end up on the sidelines. If you haven’t got what it takes, they won’t take what…

Credit: Pixabay from Pexels When the 2026 FIFA World Cup begins on June 11, 2026, matches will be played across 16 cities in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Millions of fans will arrive through multiple airports and will pack…

The report only covers the eight most common climate hazards, so the true number of children threatened by risks is likely higher. More than 1 billion children face at least three overlapping climate hazards, UNICEF warned Monday, while highlighting the…

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed what they describe as a fundamentally new type of vaccine using artificial intelligence (AI). The vaccine’s key component was designed entirely by AI and has now been tested in people for the…

Overall process of the proposed EEG-based pain level classification method. Credit: IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (2026). DOI: 10.1109 A research team has developed technology that uses artificial intelligence to analyze electroencephalogram signals triggered by thermal stimuli…

Credit: Karolina Grabowska from Pexels New Adelaide University research has identified which industries, workplace structures and employment policies are most strongly linked to gender pay gaps in Australian workplaces, with flexible work arrangements being a key indicator. The study analyzed…

A field research team member holds a test tube containing blacklegged ticks. Credit: Roman McKay/University of Ottawa, CC BY After a cold Canadian winter, most of us look forward to the spring and summer months to get outside and experience…

Two developments often get lost in the public’s perception of the abortion wars. One is that the number of abortions in the U.S. has increased dramatically year over year since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022,…

Longer lifetime exposure to female hormones may increase the risk of thyroid cancer in women, according to a study presented at ENDO 2026, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in Chicago. The research suggests reproductive and hormonal factors may be involved…

High magnification micrograph of hypertrophic decidual vasculopathy, as seen in pregnancy-induced hypertension. Credit: Wikipedia In Denmark, around 2,500 pregnant women develop pre-eclampsia every year. The condition typically manifests as high blood pressure and increased protein in the urine, and some…

Disturbed sleep is a common problem—and one that has many serious consequences beyond feeling tired the next day. Research has linked insomnia and poor sleep to early mortality and diseases including diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Women often report experiencing disturbed…

Credit: Thirdman from Pexels The conditions that could help women physicians build long and rewarding careers already exist, but they are routinely undermined in everyday practice, according to a new review led by the University of Surrey. Published in the…

Scanning electromicrograph of an HIV-infected T cell. Credit: NIAID Women with HIV most often die from preventable, trauma-related conditions like substance use and mental illness—not the virus itself. Yet these leading causes are largely missing from official death records, according…

Credit: Jonathan Borba from Pexels A coronial inquest is this week examining the death of Melbourne wellness influencer Stacey Warnecke after a freebirth at her home in September. About 25 minutes after her son, Axel, was born, Warnecke had a…

Credit: Laila Milevski/Cornell University Men and women achieve similar economic outcomes in negotiations, but female negotiators foster stronger interpersonal relationships, which lead in turn to greater satisfaction with the result and a greater desire to negotiate with that woman again…

Credit: cottonbro studio from Pexels A new study to be presented at the SLEEP 2026 annual meeting found that women with moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea reported a greater overall symptom burden than men, even though their objective measures of sleep…

Credit: Alexandre P. Junior from Pexels Temperatures climb to new record highs every summer. In many parts of Europe, this marks the start of the most dangerous time of year for wildfires. What begins as a natural disaster has far-reaching…

Credit: www.kaboompics.com from Pexels What if protecting your brain from dementia was as simple as wiggling your little fingers a few seconds each day? That’s the promise behind “pinky time,” a viral TikTok trend that claims a simple finger exercise…

The k?aro, a New Zealand whitebait species that rapidly shifts its life-cycle following landlocking. Credit: Stella McQueen Aotearoa New Zealand whitebait can rapidly switch their life cycles in response to sudden environmental changes, new University of Otago—?t?kou Whakaihu Waka research…

Credit: RDNE Stock project from Pexels If you’ve had therapy, particularly if you got it through a public health care system like the NHS in the UK or Medicare in Australia, there’s a good chance it was cognitive behavioral therapy…

Credit: WA Police In a first for Australian law enforcement, police in Western Australia have deployed live facial recognition technology in marked vans at locations around Perth. The system scans the faces of passersby and compares them in real time…

For many people, the thought of a tasty burger or a cold pint of beer conjures a vivid mental image and drives behavior. This link between thinking and doing serves a clear function—it motivates us to get the necessities of…

Weight-loss jabs are the latest craze for shedding a few pounds. Their effect has been dramatic, with drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy (semaglutide) causing users to lose up to 15% of their body fat on average. Semaglutide, which is…