With its cold climate, short growing season, and dense forests, Michigan's Upper Peninsula is known as a challenging place for farming. But a new Dartmouth-led study provides evidence of intensive farming by ancestral Native Americans at the Sixty Islands archaeological site along the Menominee River, making it the most complete ancient agricultural site in the eastern half of the United States. The site features a raised ridge field system that dates to around the 10th century to 1600, and much of it is still intact today. The raised fields are comprised of clustered ...

For over a decade, scientists have been growing organoids — small clusters of cells that mimic a particular organ — to serve as miniature biological models. Organoids of the brain have been used to study neurodevelopmental disorders; intestinal organoids, to model celiac disease; and lung organoids, to investigate SARS-CoV-2. Heart organoids have even been sent to space to test the effect of microgravity on cardiac muscle. But there’s a tiny problem — the organoids can’t grow ...

A sweeping new study is helping pinpoint where whales, sharks, turtles, and other ocean giants need the most protection and where current efforts fall short. Led by Ana Sequeira of Australian National University and supported by the United Nations, the research synthesized data from 12,000 satellite-tracked animals across more than 100 species. It reveals how marine megafauna move globally and where their migratory, feeding, and breeding behaviors intersect with human threats such as fishing, shipping, and pollution. Virginia ...

Richmond Hill, Ontario— Amid intensifying trade wars, geopolitical tensions, and surging demand for AI and clean energy technologies, United Nations scientists and global experts have unveiled a bold proposal for a "Global Minerals Trust"—a cooperative, multilateral governance mechanism to ensure fair, sustainable, and conflict-free access to critical minerals.  The Trust would include independent audit mechanisms—similar to those used by the International Atomic Energy Agency—to ensure environmental and social safeguards. Countries would retain full sovereignty over their ...

Where do you go when you’re a fish and you need a skincare treatment? Coral reefs contain natural “beauty salons,” lively social hubs of activity where fish “clients” swim up and wait to be serviced by smaller fish cleaners. The little cleaners dart under and around their much bigger clients — even entering their mouths — cleaning their scales of bacteria and parasites like a team of car washers servicing a Buick. Sometimes cleaners even rub against their clients, providing a soothing massage. But aside from skincare benefits, what role might busy cleaner fish stations play in spreading microbes and bacteria — for good or ill — throughout ...

Pennington Biomedical Research Center publicly introduced its Greaux Healthy initiative, a public service initiative designed to help improve Louisiana kids’ health at every age, during the weekly Red Stick Farmer’s Market on Thursday. Developed in partnership with the State of Louisiana, Greaux Healthy implements 35 years of Pennington Biomedical research and discoveries to inform tools, resources and programing for children, parents, healthcare providers and educators throughout the state.    “Greaux Healthy was created with one clear goal: to make Louisiana’s children healthy again,” said ...

“In GC, CBR3-AS1 and PCA3 may be utilized as therapeutic targets and prognostic biomarkers, respectively.” BUFFALO, NY- June 5, 2025 – A new research paper was published in Volume 16 of Genes & Cancer on May 9, 2025, titled “Evaluation of LncRNAs CBR3-AS1 and PCA3 expression in Gastric cancer and their correlation to clinicopathological variables.” Researchers, led by first author Parisa Najari and corresponding author Reza Safaralizadeh from the University of Tabriz, investigated how two long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), CBR3-AS1 and ...

About The Study: Health care employment growth decreased amid the pandemic but fully recovered by 2024. This recovery contrasts with non–health care employment trends and may result from health care financing via insurance coverage shielding health care employment from macroeconomic fluctuations.  Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Thuy Nguyen, PhD, email thuydn@umich.edu. To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at this link https://media.jamanetwork.com/ (doi:10.1001/jama.2025.8588) Editor’s Note: Please see the article for additional information, including ...

About The Article: This Viewpoint, by Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, and colleagues discusses a safety communication recommending a pause in the use of live attenuated chikungunya virus vaccine.  Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, email vinayak.prasad@fda.gov. To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at this link https://media.jamanetwork.com/ (doi:10.1001/jama.2025.9393) Editor’s ...

Around midday, Earth’s ionosphere sometimes experiences sharp, short-lived dips in its electron density—an unusual phenomenon known as a noontime bite-out. A new study takes a global view of these midday disruptions, using finely detailed ionospheric maps to compare their behavior in years of high and low solar activity. The research reveals that noontime bite-outs are more widespread and frequent during solar minimum, especially in winter and at higher latitudes. With detailed tracking of timing, intensity, and ...

As the largest MS organization in the world and a global leader of the MS movement, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society is committed to supporting research and career development that will accelerate breakthroughs in understanding, treating, and ultimately curing MS. The Society is pleased to highlight a number of new funding opportunities aimed to bolster MS research and training. Support originates both from the Society and outside entities. Awards are summarized below along with individual links to learn more about the details of each award, eligibility, and application instructions.   The National MS Society is offering funding opportunities that invest ...

Designed a high-performance double-spoke superconducting cavity. The research team implemented comprehensive electromagnetic and mechanical optimizations on the double-spoke superconducting cavity, achieving three key improvements: reduction of peak electric field during normal operation, suppression of multipacting effects, and enhanced manufacturability. A dedicated Buffered Chemical Polishing tooling system was developed for double-spoke superconducting cavities with complex structures, ensuring uniform acid etching and achieving high Q-values (Q > 3.4×10¹⁰ @ Eₐcc = 9 MV/m). Developed a high-performance cryomodule The ...

The accumulation of microplastics in the environment, and within our bodies, is an increasingly worrisome issue. But predicting where these ubiquitous particles will accumulate, and therefore where remediation efforts should be focused, has been difficult because of the many factors that contribute to their dispersal and deposition. New research from MIT shows that one key factor in determining where microparticles are likely to build up has to do with the presence of biofilms. These thin, sticky biopolymer layers are shed by microorganisms and can accumulate ...

Recent results from the NRG-NSABP B-51/RTOG 1304 clinical study showed that the addition of regional nodal irradiation (RNI) does not decrease the rates of invasive breast cancer recurrence in patients whose positive axillary nodes at presentation convert to negative following neoadjuvant chemotherapy. These results were recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study enrolled 1,641 patients stratified by type of surgery (mastectomy, lumpectomy), hormone receptor status (ER-positive and/or PgR-positive; ER- and PgR-negative), HER2 status, adjuvant chemotherapy use, and pathologic complete response (pCR) in the breast, then randomized to RNI vs. ...

Recent advances have resulted in highly effective “tissue-agnostic” drugs that treat cancers based on their molecular markers rather than their tissue of origin, but very few of these drugs are approved for use in children. In an opinion paper publishing June 5 in the Cell Press journal Trends in Cancer, oncologists call for “ag(e)nostic” cancer treatments: drugs that are both tissue agnostic and approved for cancer patients of all ages.   “Cancer treatment in children is a huge unmet need. These drugs are extremely effective, and we want to see children have access to them,” says senior author Razelle ...

Genetic ancestry is much more complicated than how people report their race and ethnicity. New research, using data from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) All of Us Research Program, finds that people who identify as being from the same race or ethnic group can have a wide range of genetic differences. The findings are reported June 5 in the Cell Press journal the American Journal of Human Genetics. As doctors and researchers learn more about how genetic variants influence the incidence and course of human diseases, the study of genetic ancestry has become increasingly important. This research is driving the field of precision medicine, ...

Nematodes are the most abundant animal on earth, but when times get tough, these tiny worms have a hard time moving up and out. So, they play to the strength of their clade. If food runs out and competition turns fierce, they slither towards their numerous kin. They climb onto each other and over one another until their bodies forge a living tower that twists skyward where they might hitch a ride on a passing animal to greener and roomier pastures. At least that’s what scientists assumed. For decades, these worm structures ...

CHICAGO --- A first-of-its-kind generative AI system, developed in-house at Northwestern Medicine, is revolutionizing radiology — boosting productivity, identifying life-threatening conditions in milliseconds and offering a breakthrough solution to the global radiologist shortage, a large new study finds. The findings will be published on Thursday (June 5) in JAMA Network Open. “This is, to my knowledge, the first use of AI that demonstrably improves productivity, especially in health care. Even in other fields, I haven’t seen anything close to a 40% boost,” said senior author Dr. Mozziyar Etemadi, an assistant professor of anesthesiology ...

Areas of the brain that help a person differentiate between what is real and what is imaginary have been uncovered in a new study led by UCL researchers. The research, published in Neuron, found that a region in the brain known as the fusiform gyrus – located behind one’s temples, on the underside of the brain’s temporal lobe – is involved in helping the brain to determine whether what we see is from the external world or generated by our imagination. The researchers hope that their findings will increase understanding ...

About The Study: In this cohort study, the use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) among patients with diabetes was associated with a 2-fold higher risk of incident neovascular age-related macular degeneration development than among similar patients with diabetes who did not receive a GLP-1 RA. Further research is needed to elucidate the exact pathophysiological mechanisms involved and to understand the trade-offs between the benefits and risks of GLP-1 RAs.  Corresponding Author: To ...

About The Study: Among childhood cancer survivors in this cohort study, obesity was associated with an increased risk for multiple subsequent neoplasm types, while higher physical activity was associated with reduced subsequent neoplasm risk. Lifestyle interventions should be considered in future subsequent neoplasm prevention research. Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Lenat Joffe, MD, MS, email ljoffe@northwell.edu. To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at this link https://media.jamanetwork.com/ (doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2025.1340) Editor’s Note: Please see the article for additional ...

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) can ‘catch’ yawns from an android imitating human facial expressions, according to new research from City St George’s, University of London. The study, published in Scientific Reports, demonstrates that chimpanzees will both yawn and lie down in response to yawns made by an android, suggesting that it may act as a cue to rest rather than simply triggering an automatic response. The findings appear to show contagious yawning due to an inanimate model for the first time, according to the authors, and the study also ...

At a prestigious award ceremony today in the University Aula in Bergen, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak received the international research award from HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway. Spivak is University Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. The Holberg Prize is worth NOK 6 million (approx. USD 600,000) and is awarded annually for outstanding contributions to research in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology. Expressing her deepest gratitude as well as her surprise on receiving the award, Spivak accepted the Holberg ...

To further accelerate its pioneering research in the field of quantum computing, the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF is expanding its unique quantum computing infrastructure with the latest system from Quantum Brilliance (QB). Following a public tender, the Quantum Development Kit (QB-QDK2.0) is operational and integrated directly into the high-performance computing infrastructure at Fraunhofer IAF. The system requires no cryogenics, fits into a standard 19” server rack, and enables energy-efficient, hybrid quantum-classical computing in conventional IT environments. ...

Researchers at DZNE and the Department of Vascular Neurology at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) aim to develop a computer model based on artificial intelligence (AI) to aid doctors in treating stroke patients. Serving as a digital assistance system, it is intended to predict the long-term outcome of patients after a minimally invasive treatment (mechanical thrombectomy) and potential complications, thereby helping doctors decide on the best possible therapy. A proof-of-concept study will now be undertaken to determine whether this is feasible using data from the “German Stroke Registry” and additional brain images. The project relies on an AI technology called “Swarm ...