The American Association of Immunologists has appointed Anand Balasubramani, the founding editor of Science Immunology and a veteran of scientific publishing, as its first Chief Scientific Programs Officer to lead strategic expansion of the organization's scientific agenda.

Prior authorization requirements tripled the time to fill ARNI prescriptions and made SGLT2 inhibitor fills take six times longer, with patients facing these barriers more likely to be Black, Hispanic, or insured through Medicaid, a study of 2,183 heart failure patients finds.

A multidisciplinary working group including editors from Nature, JAMA, and PLOS argues that transparency, credit, and accountability should anchor all authorship decisions -- and finds that fewer than half of top U.S. research institutions explicitly link credit to responsibility.

A deep learning model called DDINet, built with just five fully connected layers and molecular fingerprints, accurately predicts drug-drug interactions for entirely unseen drugs -- addressing a critical gap in patient safety for polypharmacy.

By amplifying weak light signals from the brain using interferometry, researchers at NYU Langone Health achieved a 20-fold improvement in signal quality for noninvasive cerebral blood flow monitoring -- using a sensor roughly 100 times cheaper than existing alternatives.

Researchers at SASTRA Deemed University have demonstrated a compact fiber-based method for generating clean ultrashort mid-infrared pulses, compressing 5-picosecond pulses to 187 femtoseconds at just 80 watts of input power -- down from the kilowatt range typically required.

A peptide from a deep-sea sponge near Japan's Yakushima Island simultaneously inhibits ATP synthase and triggers degradation of CD9, a protein linked to cancer recurrence and metastasis -- the first natural product known to degrade this marker.

Even a single course of certain antibiotics is linked to detectable changes in gut microbiome composition four to eight years later, according to a study of 14,979 adults using Sweden's comprehensive drug register and biobank data. Published in Nature Medicine.

In a first-of-its-kind clinical trial, three people with complete spinal cord injuries used dual electrode arrays to simultaneously control leg muscles and receive sensory feedback, allowing them to walk on a treadmill with physical therapist support.

A new technique called magnetoARPES, developed at Rice University, adds a tunable magnetic field to angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, allowing researchers to detect collective electron behaviors invisible to conventional methods.

A DNA-based barcoding test developed at Oregon State University can track whether gene therapy nanoparticles reach their target inside cells or get destroyed in lysosomes, enabling the design of far more efficient delivery systems. Published in Nature Biotechnology.

The 2021 North American heat dome killed 92% of Bay mussels and halved caribou detections, but sea lettuce expanded its beach area by 65%. A new study in Nature Ecology and Evolution captures the full ecological scorecard.

Elevated levels of phosphorylated tau protein, widely used as an early blood indicator for Alzheimer's, also occur in transthyretin and immunoglobulin light-chain amyloidosis, conditions that primarily damage the heart and kidneys.

A study of over 80,000 great tits across six decades shows that extreme cold and heavy rain during early development reduce fledging weight and survival, while breeding earlier in the season buffers against the worst effects.

A third of Europeans neither support nor oppose climate policy by default. They decide based on each proposal's personal cost-benefit balance, and shifting even a fraction of them could raise majority-backed climate proposals from 4 out of 15 to 10 out of 15.

A DNA origami-based vaccine called DoriVac produced immune responses comparable to Moderna and Pfizer mRNA vaccines in head-to-head tests, while offering easier storage, simpler manufacturing, and unprecedented control over vaccine composition.

For the first time, researchers have found robust evidence that a black hole and neutron star merged from an oval orbit rather than the expected circular path, suggesting the pair was shaped by dense stellar environments rather than evolving in isolation.

States that legalized online sports betting since 2018 saw a roughly 10% increase in binge-drinking frequency among men aged 35 and younger who already reported binge drinking, according to new research in Health Economics.

North Korean defectors initially show higher rates of infection-related cancers like liver and cervical cancer, but their cancer profiles gradually shift toward the lifestyle-driven patterns seen in South Korea, offering a rare natural experiment in how environment shapes cancer risk.

States that enacted total abortion bans after the 2022 Dobbs decision experienced a 1.6% birth rate increase and $6.9 million in additional WIC food-assistance costs in 2023, driven by 4.3% more postpartum women and 2.1% more formula-fed infants enrolling in the program.

AI-based weather forecasting models consume at least 21 times less energy than traditional numerical models over one year of use, according to an analysis in Weather. The training phase is energy-intensive, but the speed of inference more than compensates.

Oxygen and carbon dioxide measurements across 23 mangrove systems worldwide show that tropical mangroves already experience extreme conditions during low tide. Climate projections indicate these stress periods will lengthen, potentially excluding the commercially important fish species that depend on mangroves as nurseries.

Castrated mice fed fructose developed dramatically worse fatty liver than mice with only one risk factor. The combination altered gut microbiota, raised intestinal pyruvate levels, and synergistically drove fat accumulation in liver cells, pointing to a diet-hormone interaction in male liver disease.

Researchers used scanning thermal microscopy to watch multiple conductive filaments form and dissolve inside a volatile memristor in real time, finally explaining the randomness that makes these devices useful for encryption keys and probabilistic computing.

A new review introduces a safety-level-oriented framework for polymer-based health monitors, classifying devices from noninvasive wearables to long-term implants and mapping the material properties each tier demands for biocompatibility, stability, and signal quality.