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Pontine and thalamic DMG map to a conserved, prognostic brain network. Credit: Nature (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10631-3 A human brain network associated with survival in children with diffuse midline glioma (DMG), the deadliest childhood brain cancer, has been identified by UCL…

Credit: Image generated by the editorial team using AI for illustrative purposes. GLP-1s do not harm male hormones or fertility after long-term use, according to a study being presented Monday at ENDO 2026, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in Chicago.…

Examiner-worn camera improves visibility of procedural skills during the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) assessment. Credit: Dr. Miwa Sekine, Juntendo University, Japan Assessing the clinical skills of medical students before they enter real-world patient care is a critical component of…

The proposed method will accelerate the development of organoid-based regenerative medicine. Credit: Institute of Science Tokyo Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and other intestinal disorders affect millions of people worldwide, often causing lasting damage to the lining of the gut. In…

Promising chemoimmunotherapy for ultra-rare urachal cancer. Credit: Kotani H. et al., MedComm, 2025, DOI: 10.1002 CC BY Physician-scientists at Kanazawa University have demonstrated, for the first time, the clinical efficacy of chemoimmunotherapy in patients with ultra-rare urachal cancer. Furthermore, their…

A clinical study that began in a research unit in Gqeberha (PE), Eastern Cape, has transformed global treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis. Furthermore, the study’s findings were published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. The publication recognizes that…

Comparison between standard fine-tuning and our proposed CURA framework in clinical risk prediction. A vanilla fine-tuned clinical LM (left) may produce overconfident wrong predictions, while CURA (right) encourages high confidence only for correct decisions and assigns higher uncertainty to potentially…

Malaria cases in Mpumalanga jumped fourfold in January compared with a year earlier. In a remote South African village, Paulina Mhlongo sits in the yard as health workers in green protective gear move briskly through her home, soaking the walls…

Huts in the Androy region of Southern Madagascar offer little protection from extreme heat. Credit: Queen Mary University of London Young people from the lower-income countries most vulnerable to the effects of the climate crisis, including the toll it takes…

Credit: Vanessa Loring/Pexels A one-off training session increased how much time fathers spent with their children and on chores by about two hours a week, reports a new study from the University of Tokyo. A team in Japan provided male…

Researchers at the Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM) and the Department of Physical Chemistry at the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló, led by researcher Marcileia Zanatta, have developed a new class of absorbents for the efficient capture of carbon dioxide…

Manchester is a cigarette brand manufactured in the UAE and Europe. In Australia, they are classified as an illicit “white market” product because they do not comply with plain packaging laws. Credit: Mikaela Wilkes An estimated 80% of the cigarettes…

Credit: RDNE Stock project from Pexels Accepting chronic pain—being willing to experience pain while maintaining valued activities—may protect against higher alcohol use severity among veterans with chronic musculoskeletal pain, according to a preliminary study. More than 1 in 4 U.S.…

The procedure was “remarkably” successful. That’s how Cynthia Schraf-Fletcher, 74, describes her experience with genicular artery embolization (GAE), a minimally invasive procedure that treats chronic knee pain. Nearly a year after the outpatient surgery on her right knee, Schraf-Fletcher says…

The tank contains samples used to investigate compatibility at the gamete level. Credit: University of Eastern Finland So you have finally found the partner of your dreams—but no matter how hard you try, no children have come along. Could science…

A technician conducts research on a plant in a lab at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Credit: University of Tennessee A new study reveals the dynamics of photosynthesis at the cellular level. Led by co-authors Professor Barry Bruce and Associate…

This illustration shows (left) the major outer membrane protein (MOMP) trimer of chlamydia, with beta barrels dark gray and the antigenic cap—the dome-shaped tip of MOMP exposed on the outside of the bacterium—as a colored surface. The right image shows…

Credit: MART PRODUCTION from Pexels Strange “chimeric” RNA once thought to be the product of cancer is actually an important controller of women’s health, including influencing their susceptibility to infectious disease and autoimmune disorders, new University of Virginia School of…

Credit: The Chilean Ministry of Health Chile’s complementary set of policies targeting food products high in fat, salt and sugar plausibly reduces the risk of school-age children being overweight or having obesity, finds a study published in The Lancet. Chile…

Team led by SMU civil and environmental engineer Khaled Abdelghany used a North Texas travel model to assess how driverless vehicles could affect traffic by 2045. Credit: SMU Driverless cars could ease commutes in Dallas-Fort Worth, a new study led…

Large-scale multi-omics profiling of high-risk genes associated with ASD. Credit: Nature (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10679-1 Hundreds of genes have been linked to autism, yet the precise molecular and cellular mechanisms behind it remain largely unclear. A new study published in Nature,…

Connectograms showing atypical fMRI network structure in hypoconnectivity (left) and hyperconnectivity (right) subtypes (upon regression of mean fMRI connectivity across 414 parcellation units). Credit: Nature Neuroscience (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-026-02287-z Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), commonly referred to as autism, is a…

Credit: Kindel Media from Pexels New research from the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) has found that most Australians living with dementia are unlikely to qualify for voluntary assisted dying (VAD) under current laws. Lead author Prof. Kerstin Braun explored…

New research has found that Australia’s world-leading efforts to keep teens off social media have had little impact so far. Australia’s social media ban for under-16s has had little impact on teenagers’ scrolling habits, researchers said Thursday in one of…

On a remote beach near Esperance, Western Australia, two sick seabirds have brought the bird flu crisis to Australia. Testing has confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 in a brown skua and a giant petrel. Both are species of…

Credit: Katie Rainbow ???? from Pexels The national survey of 2,100 bi+ people—which includes identities like bisexual, pansexual, queer and fluid—provides crucial information to inform better health policy and services. An Australian-first survey has found that bi+ Australians experience significantly…

MIT researchers have developed a new approach to ultrasound imaging that allows the user to visualize a 3D augmented-reality image of the object being scanned. Using a virtual-reality headset, they can see a precise 3D digital representation of what the…

Credit: Sora Shimazaki from Pexels New research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) suggests attitudes, particularly those that excuse harmful behavior, may be a stronger predictor of willingness to create deepfake pornography than personality traits. The findings are published in the…

People process lots of information about the environment while adapting as this information changes—without high energy use. Neuroscientists researching the brain’s efficiency in processing information in the environment are split: Some believe the brain saves energy by sharpening and refining…

Credit: Cnordic Nordic from Pexels Asthma is conventionally viewed as “treatable but incurable.” In other words, we can manage its symptoms but not reverse the underlying condition. But advances in science are challenging this view, and we think a cure…

Assistant Professor Jungwook “Jay” Paek uses organ-on-a-chip technology to research biological systems. Credit: Jonathan Cohen About 25 million people in the U.S.—roughly eight out of 100—are diagnosed with asthma. Allergens, air pollution, extreme weather conditions and other irritants can cause…

A new study from Meike van der Heijden’s lab at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC challenges assumptions about brain activity in movement disorders involving Purkinje cells in the cerebellum, shown here in green, and deep nuclei cells, located…

Multimodal receptor, conformally attached to the skin, captures the inherent thermal and mechanical properties of random objects. Inset: memristive nanowire network on a skin replica with a magnified view via scanning electron microscopy. Credit: Nature Materials (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02373-w A…

Credit: Image generated by the editorial team using AI for illustrative purposes. For centuries, people have dreamed of undoing Babel. Sci-fi novelists envisioned universal translators, and linguists devised international languages, all in pursuit of a world where one person could…

Countries experiencing armed conflict tend to report more measles cases, and the elevated risk persists even a year after the fighting, according to new research published in PLOS Medicine. The study links armed conflict to measles in two ways: directly,…

Argentine scientists collect traps placed at different points across Ushuaia, Argentina, Tuesday, May 19, 2026, as part of an investigation for the source of the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship. Credit: AP Photo/Lujan Agusti Argentina on Friday…

Inflorescence meristem cell identities: (A) Force-directed graph layout of clusters associated with inner cell layers such as early primordia (EP), undifferentiated cells, procambium, xylem parenchyma and cortex. Clusters are represented by different colors. (B) Schematic illustration of selected cell identities…

New research from Edith Cowan University has discovered an important link between genes and sleep habits, suggesting they work together to influence early brain and cognitive changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease long before symptoms appear. The study is published in…

A shopper looks over Apple MacBook laptops on display in a Costco warehouse on June 2, 2026, in Sheridan, Colo. Credit: AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File Apple on Thursday announced an increase in prices for Macs and iPads, citing a memory…

Building more apartments will not solve Australia’s housing affordability crisis unless policymakers address rising house prices and investor activity, new research shows. Australia’s housing affordability crisis is being driven less by a shortage of apartments than by systemwide price pressures…