Astronomers using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton space observatory and the LOFAR telescope have definitively spotted an explosive burst of material thrown out into space by another star – a burst powerful enough to strip away the atmosphere of any unlucky planet in its path. The burst was a coronal mass ejection (CME), eruptions we often see coming from the Sun. During a CME, massive amounts of material are flung out from our star, flooding the surrounding space. These dramatic expulsions ...

A new study shows, for the first time, that cow cells can naturally become immortal—continuing to divide indefinitely without genetic modification or any abnormal transformation. This overturns long-held assumptions that bovine cells could only be immortalized through gene editing, providing a safe, stable, and scalable source of cells for cultivated beef production. The finding removes one of the biggest technical and regulatory barriers to producing affordable cultivated beef, a potential game-changer for creating sustainable, ethical meat without the environmental toll of traditional livestock farming.   On a mission to ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT researchers have developed a lightweight polymer film that is nearly impenetrable to gas molecules, raising the possibility that it could be used as a protective coating to prevent solar cells and other infrastructure from corrosion, and to slow the aging of packaged food and medicines. The polymer, which can be applied as a film mere nanometers thick, completely repels nitrogen and other gases, as far as can be detected by laboratory equipment, the researchers found. That degree of impermeability ...

About The Study: In this cohort study of 715 U.S. hospitals from 2019 to 2024, risk-adjusted in-hospital mortality declined significantly following the COVID-19 pandemic, resuming its prepandemic trajectory of improvement, while patient acuity as measured by case mix index remained elevated. These findings suggest a new postpandemic baseline for patient acuity, whereas hospital mortality outcomes have returned to prior improvement trends.  Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Alyssa Harris, MPH, email alyssa.harris@vizientinc.com. To ...

About The Study: The findings of this cohort study suggest that sexual assault may increase the risk of developing functional somatic disorder (FSD), involving multiple body systems. Functional somatic disorder is characterized by persistent physical symptoms and substantial disability. Despite limitations from small case samples in some FSD subtypes, the pooled analysis underscores the high risk of FSD, emphasizing the critical need for further research and targeted interventions to address the long-term biopsychosocial consequences of sexual assault.   Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Sofie ...

Animals from completely different branches of the tree of life such as insects, worms and vertebrates independently evolved similar genetic solutions to survive on land, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Bristol and University of Barcelona. The research, published in Nature today [12 November] suggests that some adaptations are so essential that environmental challenges make evolution predictable. The researchers decoded the genetic basis of one of evolution’s more extraordinary innovations – ...

Genome sequencing has been used to determine how much genes influence human characteristics including height and weight, and susceptibility to diseases like Type 2 diabetes, in a study co-led by University of Queensland researchers and collaborators at genomic technology company Illumina, Inc. This study is the largest of its kind and used the DNA sequences of 347,630 people of European descent from the UK Biobank to quantify how much trait differences between people can be explained by genetic factors, known as heritability. Professor Loic Yengo from UQ’s ...

A new Dartmouth study finds that artificial intelligence has the potential to deliver educational support that meets the individual needs of large numbers of students. The researchers are the first to report that students may put more trust in AI platforms programmed to pull answers from only curated expert sources, rather than from massive data sets of general information. Professor Thomas Thesen and co-author Soo Hwan Park tracked how 190 medical students in Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine used an AI teaching assistant called NeuroBot TA, which provides around-the-clock individualized support for students in Thesen's Neuroscience and Neurology course. Thesen ...

ATLANTA — Eating a plant-based diet consisting of fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes can help prevent and reverse heart disease in rats that have high blood pressure, according to a study published by researchers in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University. The basic research study, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, tested whether coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD), a type of heart disease that occurs when there’s damage to the tiny blood vessels that regulate blood ...

“Our results reinforce suggestions that LRIG1-3 could function as diagnostic markers and therapeutic targets in the treatment of gliomas.” BUFFALO, NY – November 12, 2025 – A new research paper was published in Oncotarget (Volume 16) on November 6, 2025, titled “LRIG1-3 in gliomas: LRIG1 protein expression decreased in higher grade gliomas.” In this study by Marlene Happe, Saskia Kuhl, Lukas Görtz, Roland Goldbrunner and Marco Timmer, from the University of Cologne, researchers found that the LRIG1 protein, which may help suppress tumors, is present at lower levels in more aggressive gliomas, a type of brain tumor. The findings ...

A cutting-edge consortium project called Understanding large and cOmplex Power sYstems (UTOPYS) will enable researchers to build the world’s largest research cluster for real-time energy system studies. The project is led by Principal Investigator Prof. Peter Palensky of TU Delft, and is comprised of eight Dutch research organisations, and SURF - the IT cooperative of education and research. It has been awarded a huge grant of 16.5 million euros through the Large-Scale Research Infrastructure ...

About The Study: This study found that intimate physical contact can reduce cortisol responses and, along with oxytocin administration, promote wound healing. These findings provide a foundation for future interventions that integrate relationship dynamics and neurohormonal modulation to improve health and recovery from illness.  Corresponding Authors: To contact the corresponding authors, email Beate Ditzen, PhD (b.ditzen@psychologie.uzh.ch) and Ekaterina Schneider, PhD (e.schneider@psychologie.uzh.ch). To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at this link https://media.jamanetwork.com/ (10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2025.3705) Editor’s ...

(Toronto, November 12, 2025) JMIR Publications is pleased to announce an agreement with Signals Manuscript Checks to leverage their tool across their entire portfolio. JMIR Publications, a leading publisher in digital medicine, health technology and sciences, has begun evaluating article submissions with Signals Manuscript Checks — a tool that provides automated and transparent evaluations of manuscripts to identify research integrity issues, and enables AI-supported investigations of manuscripts through Sleuth AI, Signals’ AI-powered research integrity assistant. With Signals Manuscript Checks, JMIR Publications aims to increase the efficiency and ...

New York, November 12, 2025 — A research team at the City University of New York and the University of Texas at Austin has discovered a way to make previously hidden states of light, known as dark excitons, shine brightly, and control their emission at the nanoscale. Their findings, published today in Nature Photonics, open the door to faster, smaller, and more energy-efficient technologies. Dark excitons are exotic light-matter states in atomically thin semiconductors that typically remain invisible because they emit light very weakly. These states, however, are highly ...

NEW YORK, NY and SANTA BARBARA, CA — The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) and the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research (GFMR) are pleased to announce the 2025 recipients of the Grants for Junior Faculty, Postdoctoral Fellowships in Aging Research, and Postdoctoral Fellowship Continuation Awards. Selected through rigorous review processes led by scientific committees of esteemed leaders in aging ...

Chronic liver disease (CLD) and its advanced stage, cirrhosis, represent a significant global health burden, with portal hypertension (PH) being a primary driver of disease progression and decompensation. A hallmark of this condition is thrombocytopenia, defined as a platelet count ≤150,000/μL, which is present in 64–77% of cirrhotic patients. This hematological abnormality is not merely a laboratory finding but a distinctive sign of PH and a component of prognostic risk scores for adverse liver outcomes. This essay elucidates the multifactorial ...

SAN ANTONIO — November 12, 2025 — Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has developed a method to automate the calibration of heavy-duty diesel truck emissions control systems using machine learning and algorithm-based optimization. The latest diesel aftertreatment systems often take weeks to calibrate. SwRI’s new method can calibrate them in as little as two hours. “Manually calibrating selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems is labor-intensive, often taking six or more weeks of testing and work,” said Venkata Chundru, senior research engineer in SwRI’s Advanced ...

More than 300,000 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer globally each year. The four-year clinical trial across 15 Australian hospitals – known as SOLACE2 – was co-led by the University of Sydney NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, RMIT University and WEHI, and coordinated by the Australia New Zealand Gynaecological Oncology Group (ANZGOG).  The Phase II trial tested strategies for priming the immune system to enhance the effectiveness of PARP inhibitor therapy, which stops cancer cells from repairing their own damaged DNA by blocking the PARP enzyme.   It was during this trial that a new companion blood test for women with ovarian cancer was also ...

PHILADELPHIA—Regional anesthesia—typically with a spinal or epidural block—has long been favored for cesarean births due in part to concerns about the effects that general anesthesia may have on newborns during labor and delivery. Powerful societal pressures also push the idea that mothers need to be awake during delivery to witness the first cry and capture the ‘perfect’ birth moment. But for some women who undergo a cesarean birth, the pain can become excruciating, even after they received a spinal or epidural block. Now, new research from a team at the Perelman School of Medicine at the ...

A new study from the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, published in journal Menopause, finds self-pleasure is a valuable care strategy for managing menopause symptoms, especially mood and sleep changes. Most women are open to trying it, yet few say their doctors have ever mentioned it. Researchers surveyed a demographically representative sample of 1,178 women ages 40 to 65 in the United States about their experiences with menopause and the effectiveness of their current symptom management strategies including hormone therapy, supplements, lifestyle factors, and sexual pleasure, among others.  Almost 14% of perimenopausal women reported using regular masturbation ...

LOS ANGELES — City of Hope®, one of the largest and most advanced cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States with its National Medical Center ranked among the nation’s top cancer centers by U.S. News & World Report, will present leading-edge findings at the 2025 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition happening Dec. 6-9 in Orlando and online.  Across 105 sessions, City of Hope experts will highlight advances in blood cancer research, cellular therapies and precision ...

Electronic signs are all around us, giving directions or advertising the latest gadget. In ACS Energy Letters, researchers report that they’ve developed a dynamic display technology that dissipates heat instead of generating it when the color changes, cooling the surface underneath. They also showed the display could be attached to flexible backings and wrapped over skin. The passive cooling mechanism could usher in the next generation of sustainable, flexible outdoor signs and smart devices. “The technology could be used on building billboards to show ads and also help passively cool a building’s ...

PULLMAN, Wash. -- To the casual observer, it’s nothing more than an abandoned golf course. But the land, along with other weedy, minimally maintained “marginal lands” in the Puget Sound area, is home to scores of wild bee species, including many never found before in Snohomish and King counties, according to a seven-year study by Washington State University researchers and others. The survey of bees at three plots of land near airports and beneath power lines adds to the evidence that small corners of largely untended land can sustain bee populations amid the concrete and asphalt landscape of cities ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The Public Library of Science (PLOS) today announced the launch of two journals, PLOS Aging and Health and PLOS Ecosystems. Both journals are grounded in our commitment to rigor and research integrity of the highest standard and our open science principles, which facilitates greater reproducibility, faster scientific progress, and broader access to knowledge. In addition, both journals are underpinned by our Flat Fee model that is designed to shift the cost from researchers to an institutional annual fee, which enables institutions to provide unlimited publishing opportunities ...

Artificial light-type plant factories are an emerging agricultural innovation that enable crops to be grown year-round in precisely controlled environments. By adjusting factors such as light, temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide concentration, and nutrient delivery, these facilities can produce stable yields independent of climate conditions. They offer a promising way to reduce pesticide use and minimize the impacts of climate change. However, legumes like edamame have long been considered difficult to cultivate in such settings because of their long growth periods, short storage periods, complex flowering, and pod-setting processes.  Against this backdrop, the research ...