| New Drug Combination Shows Promise Against Advanced Prostate Cancer |
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2026-08-29 12:23:25 +00:00
 Researchers identified a promising approach to slowing treatment-resistant prostate cancer by targeting two key cancer pathways at the same time. Prostate cancer is diagnosed in about one in eight men during their lifetime. Many survive the disease, but for some, it eventually spreads beyond the prostate and becomes metastatic. In the United States, prostate cancer [...]
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| Scientists Find a Troubling Effect of Sitting That Exercise Couldn’t Prevent |
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2026-08-29 11:08:02 +00:00
 Improved fitness did not prevent prolonged sitting from impairing blood-vessel function in the legs. Long hours of sitting are often treated as something a good workout can offset. But new research from Dalhousie University suggests the cardiovascular effects of prolonged inactivity may be harder to undo. Published in the European Journal of Applied Physiology, the [...]
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| FDA Clears First-of-Its-Kind Nonmedication Treatment for PTSD |
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2026-08-29 00:14:14 +00:00
 The FDA has cleared a system that uses brain activity data to personalize magnetic stimulation for PTSD, adding a new nonmedication treatment option. Every day in the United States, approximately 17.5 veterans die by suicide, while 7% of veterans are diagnosed each year with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Against this backdrop, researchers at Texas A&M [...]
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| Quantum Simulators Put a 40-Year-Old Physics Theory to the Test |
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2026-08-28 22:59:29 +00:00
 Physicists used advanced quantum technologies to test predictions from a decades-old theory. At the point where matter changes from one phase to another, very different materials can suddenly begin following the same mathematical rules. Water approaching a boil and a magnet losing its magnetism are familiar examples of phase transitions. “Physicists call this trait universality—the [...]
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| 125-Million-Year-Old Crocodile Fossil Reveals Astonishing New Secrets |
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2026-08-28 21:44:20 +00:00
 Ultraviolet imaging of a 125-million-year-old crocodylomorph fossil has revealed unexpectedly detailed traces of skin, sensory structures, and chest cartilage. More than a century after a tiny Early Cretaceous crocodylomorph was unearthed in northeastern Spain, its fossil is revealing details that were hiding in plain sight. Under ultraviolet light, researchers have now detected exceptionally preserved traces [...]
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| Scientists Discover an “Impossible” Way Muscle Filaments Can Grow |
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2026-08-28 19:04:40 +00:00
 Researchers directly observed muscle actin filaments growing from an end long thought unable to support growth, revealing how the protein leiomodin 2 helps maintain their structure. Muscle cells face a peculiar problem. Their actin filaments must remain precisely the right length for muscles to contract properly, yet those same filaments continually age, degrade, and need [...]
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| Scientists Discover a Mysterious New Snake Species Hiding in New Guinea |
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2026-08-28 18:29:42 +00:00
 A newly identified New Guinea groundsnake named for Slash is genetically distinct from its relatives and lives in threatened forest habitat. A 28-inch-long reddish-brown snake from the forests of New Guinea now carries a name borrowed from rock music: Lielaphis slashi, or Slash’s groundsnake. Its namesake is Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, aka Saul Hudson, [...]
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| Bats Have a Secret Immune System Scientists Have Never Seen in Any Other Mammal |
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2026-08-28 17:54:18 +00:00
 Vesper bats possess a second antibody gene system unseen in other known mammals, revealing a new level of immune diversity. Bats can harbor viruses capable of causing severe disease without usually becoming seriously ill themselves, a biological puzzle that has challenged scientists for years. Researchers at Tulane University, working with collaborators at Stanford University and [...]
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| A Star’s Spin Could Solve a Longstanding Black Hole Mystery |
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2026-08-28 15:26:05 +00:00
 A star’s rotation may help solve a longstanding mystery involving repeated encounters between stars and supermassive black holes. At the center of most galaxies sits a supermassive black hole, an object millions to billions of times more massive than the Sun. Its gravity is powerful enough to tear apart a star that ventures too close, [...]
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| NASA Is Building “Air Traffic Control” for the Moon |
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2026-08-28 14:51:11 +00:00
 As NASA prepares for humanity’s first lunar spaceport, engineers are developing a traffic control system to keep spacecraft moving safely and efficiently. Within the next two decades, NASA’s planned Gateway could become humanity’s first lunar spaceport, serving Orion crew capsules, lunar landers, cargo vehicles, and astronauts traveling between Earth, the moon, and eventually farther into [...]
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| NASA Finds Earth Microbes Could Hide in the Moon’s Deep Shadows |
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2026-08-28 14:16:02 +00:00
 Microbes carried to space by human explorers could survive in shaded areas near the moon’s south pole, according to researchers from NASA and the University of Maryland. Even on the moon, where extreme temperatures and intense ultraviolet (UV) radiation make the surface deeply hostile to life, some microbes from Earth may find temporary refuge. New [...]
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| New Study: Intermittent Fasting Lowers Blood Sugar in Type 1 Diabetes |
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2026-08-28 11:41:47 +00:00
 A small trial suggests time-restricted eating may help adults with Type 1 diabetes lower blood sugar without increasing major safety risks. For adults with Type 1 diabetes, limiting food intake to a set eight-hour period each day may offer another way to manage blood sugar without counting calories. A UIC study led by kinesiology and [...]
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| This Tiny Wearable Patch Could Automatically Reverse a Fentanyl Overdose |
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2026-08-28 11:06:39 +00:00
 A wearable patch that can detect fentanyl and automatically release naloxone may offer a new way to prevent unwitnessed opioid overdose deaths. A device smaller than a penny is designed to recognize dangerous fentanyl exposure and release an overdose reversal medication automatically, potentially providing help even when no one else is present. Researchers in Virginia [...]
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| Alzheimer’s Brain Changes May Begin 7 Years Earlier Than Scientists Thought |
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2026-08-28 10:31:35 +00:00
 A new study suggests that brain imaging could detect Alzheimer’s disease more than seven years earlier than previously thought. Long before amyloid plaques become visible on standard brain scans, structural changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease may already be taking place. The findings suggest that the current gold standard for Alzheimer’s imaging (amyloid-PET) may not be [...]
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| NASA’s Roman Telescope Is Almost Ready to Leave Earth |
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2026-08-28 07:45:26 +00:00
 NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has reached one of the final major milestones before launch. On August 21, teams sealed the observatory inside the protective fairing of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket at the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The fairing is the large protective shell that surrounds [...]
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