Micro-nanoscale bone char made from discarded pork bones reduced cadmium accumulation in polished rice grains by up to 68% while increasing yields by nearly 50% in a 140-day greenhouse trial, offering a low-cost circular approach to contaminated farmland.

Researchers created a calcium-modified biochar from corn straw and eggshells that adsorbs up to 290 mg of phosphorus per gram. The study maps how molecular structure determines whether phosphorus binds through chemical precipitation or hydrogen bonding, offering a path to precision nutrient management.

Using Sentinel-1 radar satellites, researchers tracked melt patterns across nearly all of Alaska's glaciers from 2016 to 2024. Each 1 degree Celsius rise in summer temperature added three weeks of melt. A 2019 heat wave drove snowlines 350 feet higher than normal, two months ahead of schedule.

A 27-year analysis of Arctic landfast ice shows the Chukchi Sea's ice season has shortened by 57 days and the Beaufort's by 39 days, driven primarily by warmer oceans delaying fall freeze-up. The loss threatens hunting access, coastal protection, and industrial ice roads.

Rice University sociologist Corey Abramson earned a fellowship at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences to complete a book combining 20 years of clinical fieldwork with computational methods, tracing how social inequality becomes embedded in physical health.

Researchers coined the term "conflict entrepreneur" for legislators who routinely attack colleagues' character. These members dominate cable news yet show no gains in fundraising, votes, or legislation — suggesting media celebrity, not policy power, is the real incentive.

Adolescents who replaced just 30 minutes of daily sedentary time with moderate-to-vigorous physical activity showed nearly 15% lower insulin resistance in late adolescence, according to an analysis of Project Viva data presented at the AHA's EPI|Lifestyle 2026 meeting. Replacing that time with sleep yielded a 5% reduction.

Florida Atlantic University researchers found that the protein Rhes partners with the bicarbonate transporter SLC4A7 to build tunneling nanotubes between neurons. These tubes carry toxic mutant huntingtin protein from cell to cell. In mouse models, knocking out SLC4A7 dramatically reduced that transfer in the striatum.

When you pull a polymer sheet with T-shaped cuts, all the slits pop open simultaneously. Magnetize the same sheet, and the rows open one at a time in a repeatable sequence. Pairing two magnetized sheets back-to-back forces an ordered top-to-bottom opening 90% of the time — and absorbs 30% more kinetic energy.

A Cambridge-led team engineered a hafnium oxide thin film that switches resistance at an internal p-n junction rather than through filament formation. The result: switching currents roughly a million times lower than conventional oxide memristors, with hundreds of stable conductance levels for neuromorphic computing.

A new hydrogel wound dressing developed at Brown University stays inert until harmful bacteria show up. When it detects beta-lactamase enzymes from infectious microbes, it degrades and releases trapped antibiotics, clearing infections in mice with a single application while sparing healthy skin flora.

The SynGAP Research Fund has formally rebranded as CURE SYNGAP1 to better communicate its mission of developing treatments for SYNGAP1-related disorders, a rare genetic condition affecting brain development. Leadership and scientific strategy remain unchanged.

Studying 75 participants who paused antiretroviral therapy, scientists identified two genes - DDIT4 and ZNF254 - that keep HIV dormant in reservoir cells. Metformin, a widely available diabetes drug, boosts DDIT4 and blocked HIV reactivation in lab experiments.

The Brunel Centre's Strategic Economic Audit shows the West of England outperforms most UK regions on productivity and exports but faces structural limits in transport, housing, and inequality that threaten sustained growth.

By creating silver oxide nanoclusters at the metal-perovskite interface, UCLA researchers reduced the energy barrier tenfold and enabled quantum tunneling of charge carriers - a potential path to practical perovskite transistors and sensors.

A new fiber-coupled terahertz imaging system from the University of Warwick captures biological tissue at near video rates with 360-micrometer resolution - fast and portable enough for bedside wound assessment without ionizing radiation.

Adults whose systolic blood pressure stayed about 10 mm Hg above their peers from age 30 to 40 had a 27% higher risk of heart disease and 22% higher risk of kidney disease after 40, according to a study of nearly 300,000 South Korean adults.

A study of 67 aquifer recovery cases worldwide reveals that multi-pronged strategies work best for reversing groundwater depletion, with alternative water sources involved in 81% of successes - but gains are fragile and can reverse if monitoring stops.

The receptor that tells mosquitoes they are full after a blood meal lives in the rectum, not the brain. The finding reshapes understanding of mosquito feeding behavior and opens a potential new target for disrupting disease-carrying bites.

Low-income adults with diabetes who lost health insurance showed worse blood sugar control and needed more intensive medications within months, according to a study of community health center patients across 20 states - raising alarms as millions face Medicaid disenrollment.

A study of older adults at a socioeconomically vulnerable NYC emergency department found significant heat-health risks at temperatures below the city's 95F heat advisory trigger, suggesting tailored warning strategies are needed for at-risk populations.

Smokers who receive negative results on baseline low-dose CT screening still face substantially elevated long-term lung cancer risk - but the danger only becomes statistically significant after two years, suggesting current annual screening intervals could be safely extended.

A case-control study of low-income adults at community health centers found that sustained insurance loss was linked to worse blood sugar control, increased insulin use, and more acute diabetes complications - findings with urgency as Medicaid cuts loom.

Corals, jellyfish, and sea anemones share a common ancestor but have wildly different body shapes. A new study identifies three mechanical tissue properties - 'mechanotypes' - that predict and even control which form an organism takes.

Analysis of 55,200 ER visits across two NYC hospitals found that older adults in underserved communities face amplified heat-health risks starting at 90F - five degrees below the city's heat advisory threshold of 95F.