Last summer, smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed Vermont, darkening the sunset and significantly reducing air quality. But Anna Maassel, a Ph.D. candidate in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and a student fellow at the Gund Institute, is…

Credit: Tel-Aviv University A new collaborative study by Tel Aviv University and Sheba Medical Center marks a significant advance toward noninvasive blood testing, one of the most significant unmet needs in the market. The researchers have developed an artificial intelligence–based…

A stroke survivor who participated in the study plays the MINT Conditioning video game from the study. Credit: Kristin Samuelson, Northwestern University A customized throw-back video game may offer a surprisingly futuristic path to stroke recovery. In a new study,…

Millions of Californians, in every part of the state, live with an uneasy day-to-day preoccupation: Housing is so expensive here, food and gas and utilities are so expensive—would it make sense to pull up stakes and leave for another state?…

Patients with severe injuries from car crashes are about 70% less likely to be transferred to another hospital in states with no-fault insurance laws than in states with more common at-fault policies, reports a new study led by Northwestern Medicine.…

Yu-Cheng Qian (postdoctoral researcher) operating a customized vibration platform that enables precise control and monitoring of vibration frequency and amplitude in cell-based experiments. Credit: Ingrid Söderbergh Snoring is not just a symptom of obstructive sleep apnea—it may also contribute to…

Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric disorder characterized by persistent restriction of food intake, fear of gaining weight and distorted body image, often leading to significantly low body weight. Relapse rates for people treated for the disorder are alarmingly high, at…

A new study to be presented at the SLEEP 2026 annual meeting found that U.S. military veterans with both insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea face a markedly elevated risk of developing type 2 diabetes, substantially exceeding the risk associated with…

Internet-based vestibular rehabilitation (VR) is not superior to written instructions for reducing vestibular symptoms six weeks after acute-onset vertigo, according to a study published online June 12 in PLOS One. Solmaz Surano, M.D., Ph.D., from Umeå University in Sweden, and…

A new international study has found that venture debt is reshaping how capital moves through technology startup ecosystems around the world. Analyzing data from 59 countries between 2015 and 2024, the researchers show that greater venture debt availability is associated…

Engaging in a variety of physical activities—especially those of higher intensity—may be linked to lower odds of experiencing depressive symptoms, according to new research published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. The study, conducted by a team at…

Ex?smokers who used e?cigarettes daily after quitting had higher lung cancer risk than ex?smokers who did not vape. Credit: Berk Aktas for Pexels. Vapes or e-cigarettes were marketed as a safer, smokeless alternative to traditional cigarettes and even promoted as…

Credit: Boys in Bristol Photography from Pexels A product that was introduced as a safer alternative to smoking is causing lung and cardiovascular damage in young adults, according to new University of Alberta research published today. “The assumption is that…

New research published in JSCAI and presented at New York Valves 2026 reports favorable one-year outcomes in patients with symptomatic severe aortic regurgitation following treatment with the investigational J-Valve Transfemoral System. The study, “Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients with…

Graphical abstract. Credit: International Journal of Pharmaceutics (2025). DOI: 10.1016 A patent-pending innovation created and validated in Purdue University’s College of Engineering could strengthen pharmaceutical research and development in the areas of batch verification, encapsulation efficiency screening and regulatory compliance…

Graphical overview of findings. Credit: Nature Neuroscience (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-026-02313-0 Physical pain is essential for survival, as it allows animals to detect when they are injured or unwell, seek shelter and address their ailments. Yet when it becomes chronic, pain…

The race is on to find a vaccine or treatment that can help stem the deadly outbreak of Ebola in DR Congo and Uganda. There are no vaccines or treatments for the strain of Ebola that has killed more than…

Researcher at NORCE, Pål Puntervoll, and Professor at the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, UiB, Halvor Sommerfelt. Credit: Paul André Sommerfeldt Research led by the University of Bergen (UiB) and NORCE may help pave…

The HPV vaccine for cervical cancer has reduced the risk of dying from the disease before age 30 in England to almost zero, the first study of its kind showed Thursday. Between 2020 and 2024, no women in the country…

A new analysis has found that after Utah lowered the legal blood alcohol concentration (BAC) limit for driving from 0.08 to 0.05 g/dL, alcohol-related crash fatalities declined significantly more in Utah than in its six contiguous states. The findings from…

The largest-ever U.K. trial of a urine test used across the NHS to spot when patients skip their medication has shown it may improve adherence to treatment. Led by researchers at the University of Manchester and Manchester University NHS Foundation…

Ayomidamope Adebiyi, a board-certified family nurse practitioner and clinical lead at UC Merced’s Occupational Health Services department, has taken the lead on researching and promoting ways to diagnose Valley fever earlier and treat it more thoroughly. Credit: UC Merced A…

Having a baby in the United States is about to get more complicated. Under new billing codes that take effect in January, doctors who manage maternity care will start charging à la carte for visits and services related to pregnancy,…

Researchers in the del Monte Lab at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) are the first to observe defects in the protein repair system associated with the peculiar, misfolded protein plaques previously observed in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy…

Melioidosis in the United States. Credit: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (2026). DOI: 10.1371 What do hurricanes, military equipment, aromatherapy oil and a pet raccoon have in common? According to a new review led by Menzies School of Health Research (Menzies),…

Credit: Queen’s University Archaeologists have uncovered an unknown stone circle that dates back at least 4,000 years to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age and was most likely used for ritual activities. The discovery was made near the Giant’s…

ADPD for a BGS sub-sample with N = 36,290 galaxies. Credit: Nature (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10702-5 Earlier this year, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) completed observations that mapped 47 million galaxies across 11 billion light-years, allowing astronomers to better evaluate…

The three largest Medicare Advantage insurers turned down requests for post-hospital care at some of the highest rates among major plans, a federal watchdog has found. UnitedHealth Group, Humana and CVS Health, the parent company of Aetna, each denied many…

The EasyGrid instrument installed at the EMBL Imaging Centre. Credit: Joseph Franciosa/EMBL Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) can help scientists determine the three-dimensional structure of proteins in unprecedented detail. Jacques Dubochet, former group leader at EMBL, shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in…

California’s ranks of uninsured residents could nearly double in the next four years—to nearly 4.6 million people—because of deep federal cuts to Medicaid and dramatic changes in federal and state policy, according to a new report from the UC Berkeley…

Working of the unfolding machine. Dissolution of the capsule shell and unfolding of the polymeric system in the stomach. Credit: Dr. Ali Raza Between 50% and 100% of people in countries with poor access to clean water are infected with…

Cerebellar cognitive signature includes regions related to cerebello-cerebral networks and acts as a reserve factor. Credit: Nature Neuroscience (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-026-02289-x Scientists may have discovered a new role for the cerebellum, the part of the brain that sits at the…

A new Dalhousie study suggests improved fitness may not be enough to protect blood vessels from the effects of prolonged sitting. The study, published in the European Journal of Applied Physiology, examined whether 12 weeks of high-intensity interval training could…

This docking station is all that is needed to power an underwater robot during a recent test. Here seen on the deck of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology’s RV Gunnerus before it was lowered to a depth of…

Ashok Kumar, University of Houston Else and Philip Hargrove Endowed Professor of Drug Discovery at the UH College of Pharmacy and director of the Institute of Muscle Biology and Cachexia, reports two new therapeutic targets for childhood cancer rhabdomyosarcoma. Credit:…

Schematic of the forced pulsatility system: a microfluidic platform, syringe pump, and peristaltic pump used to provide oscillating fluid delivery for studies of islet pulsatility. Credit: Metabolites (2026). DOI: 10.3390/metabo16040264 Researchers at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine…

Overview of the uncertainty-aware lensfree computational pathology platform for automated HER2 assessment. A compact lensfree holographic imaging system captures diffraction patterns from immunohistochemically stained breast tissue samples, which are computationally reconstructed and analyzed using deep neural networks with Bayesian uncertainty…

Schematic illustration of TLD1433 as DNA-targeting sonosensitizer for P. aeruginosa-induced pneumonia treatment. Credit: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2026). DOI: 10.1021 An anticancer medication called TLD1433, a ruthenium(II) complex that has entered Phase II trials for conditions such as…

Credit: Artem Podrez from Pexels A new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute has found that an ultrasensitive blood test called HPV-DeepSeek could help identify which people with HPV-associated head and neck cancer still had cancer cells…

Ultraprocessed grain intake is associated with an increased risk for developing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a study published in the June issue of the American Journal of Gastroenterology. Neeraj Narula, M.D., M.P.H., from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario,…