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These greenhouse-gas sources have trotters and snouts
Charmed by comets
Author Correction: Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus
Bland new world: is AI making us all think the same?
My four-step workflow for reading scientific papers (without trying to read them all)
Who is responsible when AI helps to write science?
From Trojan horses to AI-proof exams: how professors are tackling students’ AI use
India has an ambitious plan to lure scientists back — will it work?
Europe should adapt, not copy, China’s practical PhD
The global plastics treaty must account for conflict-driven energy insecurity
When AI does science, who is accountable for mistakes?
China’s regulatory innovation for new biomedical technologies
NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding
Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say
Goodbye CPAP? New sleep apnea pill cuts breathing events by 44%
A once-nightly pill cut breathing interruptions by about 44% in a major phase 3 sleep apnea trial, while improving oxygen levels and disease severity. By strengthening the muscles that keep the airway open during sleep, AD109 could offer a new option for people unable to tolerate CPAP.
Brain stimulation takes aim at improving women’s health
Trials of noninvasive technologies tackle postpartum depression, menstrual pain, and other conditions
Scientists find a human-only gene that may help explain our brainpower
Scientists discovered that human microglia, immune cells that help shape developing brain circuits, can take four to eight years to mature instead of just weeks as they do in mice. The unusually slow process may help explain how the human brain develops its remarkable complexity and cognitive abilities.
Fearing traumatic seal die-off, Australia moves to evacuate polar research station
Witnessing thousands of seal pups die from bird flu could harm staff mental health, officials say
High blood sugar may help cancer cells hide from the immune system
Researchers discovered a possible way cancer cells hide from the immune system: they build a thick, sugar-rich coating around themselves. High blood sugar can strengthen this protective shield under conditions that resemble the environment inside tumors, with the protein HSF1 playing a key role. Blocking this process could make cancer cells easier for the immune system to recognize and destroy.
Extreme black hole merger may be a cosmic illusion
Puzzling event could be an artifact of gravitational lensing, a new model suggests
Popular sweeteners may leave effects that last for generations
Two widely used zero-calorie sweeteners, sucralose and stevia, may have effects that linger far longer than the sweet taste itself. In mice, researchers found that both sweeteners altered the gut microbiome, reduced beneficial compounds produced by gut bacteria, and changed the activity of genes involved in metabolism and inflammation. Some of those changes were also detected in later generations that had never consumed the sweeteners themselves.