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Oregon State researchers showed 5-minute news-style videos at different resolutions to study participants and found that low-resolution viewing suppressed attitude change on the video's topic, reduced emotional engagement, and made viewers less likely to seek out related content - even when they recalled the information equally well.
Read the releaseUC Davis plant scientist Arnold Bloom proposes a previously unrecognized biochemical pathway within photorespiration that converts soil nitrogen into proteins, DNA components, and defensive chemicals - reframing a process dismissed as wasteful and pointing toward new strategies for crop development.
Read the releaseA mixed-methods survey of over 2,500 autistic adults and their supporters, published in eClinicalMedicine, identifies educational failure, inadequate transitional support, and inaccessible healthcare as the primary drivers of the threefold to fivefold elevated suicide risk in autistic people.
Read the releaseBite mark analysis on three juvenile herbivore skeletons from early Permian Texas shows large predators including Dimetrodon and Varanops were hunting sizeable plant-eating animals 280 million years ago - pushing back the fossil record of apex predator-prey relationships.
Read the releaseA Rutgers statistician developed a novel evidence framework for evaluating burn pit exposure that the VA adopted in 2024, enabling veterans to claim benefits for respiratory conditions linked to service in Southwest Asia - and published the underlying research in February 2026.
Read the releaseAnalysis of 4,000 low-wage workers from May 2021 to January 2022 shows on-demand wage access raises monthly saving frequency 3.7%, dashboard monitoring 12.9%, and financial goal-setting 1.3% - with gains wiped out among workers who habitually pay fees for instant withdrawals.
Read the releaseResearchers at Radboud University and Oxford found that falsely labeling beverages as sugar-containing increased enjoyment of artificially sweetened drinks and triggered dopaminergic midbrain activation, while sugar-labels attached to actual sugar drinks reduced their perceived pleasantness.
Read the releaseA JAMA Pediatrics study found stark disparities in birth outcomes by poverty status, with inequities in low birth weight growing in recent years and varying substantially across states based on the generosity of their antipoverty programs.
Read the releaseA meta-analysis published in JAMA Pediatrics found screen time has a small but significant within-person correlation with later sleep onset in youth, but daily fluctuations in screen use do not meaningfully reduce total sleep duration or quality.
Read the releaseGulf of Mexico gag grouper seasons have shrunk from six months to just 14 days in 2025. A USF-FWC statistical model now predicts harvest risk more accurately by accounting for how anglers respond to regulation changes.
Read the releaseA University of Michigan study modeling battery degradation across 300 cities under multiple warming scenarios found that batteries made after 2019 lose an average of just 3% of lifetime in a 2-degree-Celsius warmer world, compared to an 8% loss for batteries made before 2018, published in Nature Climate Change.
Read the releaseApplied Microbiology International's video series features two microbiologists - Professor Nicola Holden and Dr. Gil Domingue - examining the raw milk debate: what pasteurization actually does, why recent papers on asthma and microRNAs are intriguing but not yet actionable, and how social media outpaces the science.
Read the releaseA systematic review from Central South University clarifies how lithium, sodium, potassium, and cesium ions distributed at the electrochemical interface regulate the activity and product selectivity of CO2 reduction - a key step in designing electrolysis systems that convert waste carbon into useful chemicals.
Read the releaseAmplified Sciences received College of American Pathologists accreditation for its clinical lab, clearing a key regulatory hurdle for national expansion of PanCystPro, a test that uses multiomics analysis to help physicians rule out malignancy in pancreatic cysts.
Read the releaseFred Hutch Cancer Center selected 12 graduate students from MIT, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, and other leading institutions for the 2026 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, honoring research in tumor metabolism, DNA replication, and sensory biology.
Read the releaseCU Boulder researchers found that human reaching movements speed up within 220 milliseconds of an unexpected reward - a subtle but measurable effect consistent with a second dopamine surge from surprise, and slow down after a string of unrewarded attempts, linking movement vigor directly to dopamine prediction errors.
Read the releaseA University of Washington study using 13 years of seismic velocity data from three offshore monitoring stations found the northern Cascadia fault appears locked, while the central region shows signs of a past slow-slip event and fluid drainage pathways that could limit earthquake propagation.
Read the releaseA University of St Andrews study using 18 years of genetic paternity data from humpback whales in New Caledonia finds that as populations recovered from whaling and older males became more common, they increasingly outcompeted younger males for reproduction - suggesting experience or physical condition advantages that were masked during decades of population imbalance.
Read the releaseA study following 458,597 children in Ontario finds that refugee and immigrant children are less likely to use emergency departments for non-urgent conditions than Ontario-born children in their first two years, with settlement services linked to more appropriate healthcare navigation.
Read the releaseA Mendelian randomization study using genome-wide data from over 750,000 individuals finds that genetically higher IL-6 levels increase all-cause mortality while higher IL-6 receptor levels reduce it, pointing to distinct cardiovascular mechanisms and supporting IL-6R-targeted prevention strategies.
Read the releaseChildren with congenital aniridia retain near-normal corneal sensitivity, but adults show significant, progressive nerve function decline - reducing their ability to sense contact and triggering the tear response that protects the eye from injury, a Spanish-Hungarian clinical study finds.
Read the releaseSix pieces of amber spanning Cretaceous to Oligocene periods reveal ants in close proximity to mites, spiders, and parasitic wasps - with proximity data suggesting some co-entrapments reflect real biological relationships, including possible ant-mite hitchhiking partnerships.
Read the releaseOsaka Metropolitan University researchers tested competing spatial models for extreme precipitation prediction across Japan's four main islands, finding that INLA-SPDE outperforms standard kriging methods - particularly for rare, high-magnitude rainfall events where precision matters most for infrastructure planning.
Read the releaseClarivate's analysis of research impact over 2021-2025 places NYU among the 70 institutions that together account for 43.3% of all highly cited researcher designations, with 28 NYU scientists recognized in the most recent annual list.
Read the releaseA review of global data finds parents are increasingly declining vitamin K shots for newborns - a safe supplement that prevents potentially fatal brain bleeds. Infants who skip the injection are 81 times more likely to develop vitamin K deficiency bleeding.
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