Credit: Polina Tankilevitch from Pexels Drinking alcohol may lead people to overconsume savory ultra-processed foods, according to new research from the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre, with researchers suggesting this may contribute to excess energy intake and weight gain.…

Distribution of long-term exposure to fine particulate matter Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Behavior & Socioeconomics of Aging (2026). DOI: 10.1002 A new study by researchers at UC Davis Health and Kaiser Permanente found that higher exposure to very small air pollution particles…

An AI-driven worm propagates across a heterogeneous network by parasitically acquiring computational resources for autonomous reasoning. Credit: arXiv (2026). DOI: 10.48550 A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has discovered a new class of cyberthreat that gives hackers…

One argument often used to quell concerns about the rising energy and resource demand of data centers is that artificial intelligence (AI) models will need less in the future as they improve and become more efficient. But this seemingly logical…

When artificial intelligence is used to support or make important decisions in areas such as health care and public administration, it becomes crucial to understand how these systems arrive at their conclusions. A new doctoral thesis from the University of…

Overview of the HERRO method pipeline. Credit: Nature (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10563-y An international research team led by the A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS) has developed HERRO, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that could make it easier and more…

NIST researchers developed a new AI model that can identify safe evacuation routes during a fire. The model can be used with new electronic exit signs, called dynamic emergency exit displays, to show whether an exit is safe to use.…

An optical microscope image (left) of the AI-designed metasurface closely matches its design, with an optimal phase pattern (right) selected during the AI training process. Credit: NDAO lab, UC San Diego Blurry light from lens imperfections is a problem everywhere,…

Optical Fourier surfaces. Credit: SUTD Designing surfaces that precisely control how light behaves at the nanoscale is tricky. Optical Fourier surfaces, which are nanostructured gratings that redistribute light into specific directions and wavelengths, hold enormous potential for compact spectrometers, augmented-reality…

Example snapshots of the photon energy density at t = 0.5, 0.7, 0.9, 1.1 nanoseconds (ns) on the y = 2.0 cm plane. Credit: Biomedical Engineering Letters (2026). DOI: 10.1007/s13534-026-00578-9 Researchers at University of Tsukuba have developed an AI model…

a) Electronic properties as coordinate-dependent functions learned from SCF or neural models, and b) locality enforced via nearsightedness with cutoff-based Hamiltonian sparsity. Reproduced from Li et al. Credit: Advanced Functional Materials (2025). DOI: 10.1002 Researchers at Ames National Laboratory are…

Example of a high-resolution textile image. The threads are approx. 0.2 mm thick. Credit: SINTEF Huge amounts of clothing are simply discarded, and almost nothing goes to reuse or recycling. But with sensors and artificial intelligence, textile waste can be…

AI-powered digital twin technology could transform how doctors understand and treat heart disease. But if the medical data used to build these virtual models overlook biological differences between women and men, the promise of truly personalized medicine may remain incomplete.…

Austin Brockmeier (left) and Amanda Hernan (right) converse in the north atrium of UD’s Health Sciences Complex, where their collaboration began after Brockmeier presented his computational neuroscience research at a seminar there. Doctoral student Maria Isabel Cano Achuri (center) is…

Competitive reaction pathways governing electrochemical urea synthesis. Credit: Nature Synthesis (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s44160-026-00995-9 Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a computation-guided strategy to produce urea more efficiently from carbon dioxide and nitrate. By combining large language…

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai discovered a previously hidden pocket on PKMYT1, a protein involved in controlling how cells grow and divide, that current AI tools and experiments had missed. Their findings potentially open a…

An artificial intelligence (AI) system that combines breast cancer tissue images with molecular marker data achieves high accuracy in diagnosis, tumor classification, and survival prediction. Details of the research are reported in the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics.…

Women with abnormal mammograms often have to wait for weeks to find out whether they have breast cancer. Now, researchers at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley have found a way to help reduce the wait and the worry by…

Credit: Pavel Danilyuk from Pexels As any athlete will tell you, perfect practice makes perfect. But for individuals who do not have regular access to coaches or trainers, maintaining good form can be tricky. In fact, during the COVID-19 pandemic…

Graphical Abstract. Credit: Circulation Research (2026). DOI: 10.1161 Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered a molecular pathway that drives certain stressed or aging cells to become abnormally active, causing inflammation inside blood vessel plaques.…

A nutritious diet is one of the key ways to stay physically and mentally fit. Research suggests it may reduce your risk of developing various conditions, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and certain cancers. Diet may also help protect…

More than one-third of U.S. adults report at least one sunburn during the previous 12 months, according to research published in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Dawn M. Holman, M.P.H., from the…

Previously, immature overall survival results of the NRG Oncology GY018 (NRG-GY018) trial suggested that the use of the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab in combination with chemotherapy improved overall survival for patients with advanced stage or recurrent endometrial cancer when compared to…

Paralysis on one side of the body is common after stroke. A new study in CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics demonstrates that acupuncture can significantly improve muscle function recovery in patients who have experienced a stroke, with this recovery correlating to…

Credit: Kindel Media from Pexels No one wants to hear the distinctive pop of an ACL tearing or rupturing, which typically means the player’s season is at an end. The ACL, or anterior cruciate ligament, is located inside the knee…

Acetaminophen remains the recommended first-line medication to treat pain and fever during pregnancy, according to an updated statement from the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM). A comprehensive review of the available scientific evidence does not establish a causal relationship between…

A human lung cell infected with influenza. The viral nucleoprotein is in red, a cellular protein highjacked by influenza is in green, and the cell’s nucleus is in blue. Credit: Emily Bruce, Ph.D. Lab at the Larner College of Medicine…

States with restrictive abortion policies saw slower growth in the proportion of female medical school applicants following the 2022 reversal of Roe v. Wade, according to a new study published in the open-access journal PLOS Global Public Health by Amrit…

M + A Hotline contact rates per state population pre- (left) and post-Dobbs (right) in the contiguous United States. Heat maps show the distribution of M + A Hotline contact rates per 1000 women aged 15–44 as of July 1,…

Bathurst Plains and Settlement, New South Wales by Augustus Earle. Credit: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales As Aboriginal nations mounted a series of coordinated and strategic campaigns to defend Country against invading settlers, the smallpox epidemic spread…

Telemedical examination and patient monitoring on a shared 6G network. Credit: F. Jurosch / TUM Telemedicine, continuous monitoring and remote procedures are becoming increasingly important in medicine. For these to operate seamlessly in everyday clinical practice, data must be transmitted…

Researcher Parima Phowarasoontorn holds the Lily stent. Photo credit: Parima Phowarasoontorn Each year, about 250,000 Americans undergo sleeve gastrectomy, one of the most common weight-loss operations in the United States. For most patients, recovery is uneventful. But for a small…

Rendering of a heart with Tetralogy of Fallot showing the septal defect. Credit: Joseph Brunet, Cinematic Anatomy (Siemens Healthineers) Researchers from UCL (University College London) and the ESRF (The European Synchrotron) have produced the first three-dimensional map of the heart’s…

On a typical night out, the rhythm of drinking can be hard to control. Rounds arrive quickly, glasses are topped up before they’re empty, and intentions to “take it slow” often dissolve by the second or third drink. If you’re…

Breast cancer deaths, once concentrated mostly among older women, are now claiming younger women more often, researchers recently reported in the journal npj Breast Cancer. Survival improved substantially among older women over time, but younger women did not show the…

Growing demand for a minimally invasive aortic valve replacement by adults under 65 with aortic stenosis may put many at greater risk for potentially more complicated heart surgeries later, according to a University of Rochester Medicine study published in The…

Illustration of ‘vicious cycle’ between smoking, sleep and symptoms of depression. Illustration from new study. Credit: Niels Bohr Institute Among the younger part of the population, sleep problems, anxiety, and depression are widespread and growing issues. But why are our…

College students feel more pressure to be perfect than they did a generation ago, finds research published in Psychological Bulletin. That increase in perfectionism may be tied to social and economic factors such as rising inequality and slowing economic growth,…

Map of Direct Care Agencies in New York. Credit: JAMA Network Open (2026). DOI: 10.1001 Obtaining home care for older adults with Medicaid can be a complex, multi-step process marked by delays and uncertainty, often resulting in long wait times,…

Legendary 18-time major winner Jack Nicklaus once stated golf was “90% mental and 10% physical.” That’s because, unlike most other ball sports, a golfer spends most of the time thinking about their game instead of actually playing it: the contact…