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A study of 1.1 million Ontario births found that extending monitoring for severe maternal morbidity from labor and delivery to the full period from conception through six weeks postpartum captured over 40% more cases. Sixteen percent occurred prenatally and 29% postpartum - periods largely invisible to current Canadian surveillance.
Read the releaseThe American College of Sports Medicine published its first resistance training update since 2009, based on 137 systematic reviews and over 30,000 participants. The central message: any resistance training improves strength, muscle size, and function. Elastic bands, bodyweight, or barbells - consistency beats complexity.
Read the releaseA 12-week trial of the Melonga App found that men using the app doubled their time to ejaculation (from 61 to 125 seconds), with 22% no longer meeting criteria for premature ejaculation. The CLIMACS study, presented at the EAU Congress 2026, is the first to test an app-based treatment for the condition.
Read the releaseA juvenile female fisher traveled 118 kilometers from Durham to Lincoln, New Hampshire - the longest dispersal ever recorded for the species - through deep winter snow. The finding, published in Northeastern Naturalist, underscores the need for connected forest habitats as fisher populations decline.
Read the releaseResearch across China and North America found that abusive supervision triggers organizational dehumanization - making employees feel like tools rather than people - which drives burnout through inauthenticity and kills teamwork through perceived powerlessness.
Read the releaseBy exposing individual fireflies to blinking LED lights in pitch darkness, CU Boulder researchers derived the mathematical rules that allow thousands of Photuris frontalis to flash in unison - insights that could improve swarm robotics.
Read the releaseAmericans over 65 would travel an average of 68 minutes for primary care, 113 minutes for a diagnostic test, and 128 minutes for a specialist - but those in poor health, large cities, or with transportation barriers are far less willing to make the trip.
Read the releaseUniversity of Utah researchers discovered that the Overdrive gene acts as a quality-control checkpoint during sperm development in Drosophila, and that selfish chromosomes from two different species independently hijack this system to kill competing sperm.
Read the releaseResearchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics achieved a methanol space-time yield of 1.2 grams per gram of catalyst per hour from CO2 hydrogenation - roughly three times the output of conventional Cu/Zn/Al catalysts - by spatially separating active sites through a strong metal-support interaction overlayer.
Read the releaseDespite consensus endorsement of donor care units for improving organ donation outcomes, their adoption has been uneven across the U.S. A new study finds that many deceased donors after brain death face drives of more than 180 minutes to reach the nearest unit.
Read the releaseResearchers have mapped the temperature-sensitive period and early gene expression changes that determine sex in leopard geckos, finding that incubation at 26.5C produces 100% females while 31.5C yields 91% males - with molecular divergence beginning well before any physical differences are visible.
Read the releaseAn international team has confirmed a new chemical reaction - trisulfide metathesis - that spontaneously makes and breaks sulfur-sulfur bonds at room temperature without reagents or external stimuli, enabling applications from targeted cancer drugs to closed-loop recyclable polymers.
Read the releaseResearchers have determined the 2.4-angstrom structure of a unique light-harvesting protein from a freshwater alga, revealing how it arranges ordinary chlorophyll a into cooperative clusters that absorb far-red light - a wavelength most photosynthetic organisms cannot use.
Read the releaseResearchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have identified seven distinct types of hyperarousal that cut across mental health disorders, and developed a concise questionnaire to measure them - potentially reshaping how clinicians diagnose and treat conditions like insomnia and anxiety.
Read the releaseResearchers used a solvent-free ball milling technique to bond long-chain amine molecules onto biochar, then coated hemp fibers with the hydrophobic material. The result: fibers that repel water but absorb up to 14 times their weight in oil, all made from renewable waste streams.
Read the releaseScientists long assumed only the smallest pores in biochar captured CO2. A new study combining theoretical models with experimental measurements shows that larger pores actively contribute through surface roughness that slows gas molecules, with high-temperature biochar capturing up to 3.82 mmol/g.
Read the releaseThe Stanley Family Foundation has renewed its commitment to the Broad Institute's psychiatric research with $280 million, pushing total investment past $1 billion. The funding has fueled identification of dozens of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder genes, with drug discovery programs now underway.
Read the releaseAmong 288,000 teens and young adults with both ADHD and substance use disorder, those receiving ADHD medication had fewer hospitalizations, overdoses, and suicidal thoughts, with a 30% lower five-year mortality risk. Yet stimulant prescriptions dropped 15-17% after a substance use diagnosis.
Read the releaseA 2.5-year GPS study in Yellowstone found ravens rarely follow wolves over long distances. Instead, they rely on spatial memory, returning to areas with historically high kill density from distances exceeding 150 kilometers.
Read the releaseBy recording nearly every movement of African turquoise killifish across their entire lives, researchers built a machine learning model that estimates age and predicts lifespan from daily activity patterns alone - with long-lived fish showing distinct behaviors from just weeks old.
Read the releaseContinuous behavioral tracking of 81 African killifish across their entire lifespans revealed that aging progresses through sudden transitions between stable stages, not as gradual decline. By midlife, movement and sleep patterns could predict how long an individual would live.
Read the releaseAnalyzing 19,395 senior employees at 772 Canadian firms over two decades, researchers found that women who reach director positions rely on more diverse networks - especially connections to other female leaders - than men, who advance primarily through current employment ties.
Read the releaseA JAMA study estimates the increase in 12-month psilocybin use in Oregon and Colorado following state-level decriminalization, providing the first population-level data on how policy changes affected psychedelic use patterns.
Read the releaseMale mice exposed to nicotine in drinking water produced offspring with altered insulin levels, glucose metabolism, and liver function. Because pure nicotine was used, the effects cannot be attributed to cigarette additives or e-cigarette flavorings.
Read the releaseResearchers found that female green treefrogs preferred moderately parasitized males over uninfected ones but avoided heavily infected individuals, suggesting females weigh multiple call traits that simultaneously signal size, vigor, and infection risk.
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