Highly efficient controlling the individual atomic migration is the basis of the modern atomic manufacturing. Although one-by-one atom migration can be realized precisely by STM technique, such a delicate operation is time consuming and restrictive conditions (e.g., high-vacuum) is required. A research team from the Institute of Modern Optics and the Center for Single Molecule Science at Nankai University, China, has now reported a breakthrough method to achieve efficient atomic migration under room temperature and atmospheric conditions. Their study, titled “Surface Plasmon Driven Atomic Migration Mediated by Molecular Monolayer,” was recently published in PhotoniX. By ...

Five researchers from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. They are  Michael Lerch, Loredana Protesescu, Tim Lichtenberg and Alexander Belyy from the Faculty of Science and Engineering, and Miles Wischnewski from the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences. The European Research Council's (ERC) Starting Grants amount to €1.5 million each, for a period of five years. The grants are intended for outstanding researchers with the aim of stimulating cutting-edge research in Europe. Miles Wischnewski: The role of phase coding in memory processing Imagine walking into a room ...

Organ donors can save lives, for example those of patients with kidney failure. Unfortunately, there are too few donors, and the waiting lists are long. 3D bioprinting of (parts of) organs may offer a solution to this shortage in the future. But printing living tissues, bioprinting, is extremely complex and challenging. The team of Riccardo Levato at UMC Utrecht and Utrecht University is now taking an important step toward printing implantable tissues. Using computer vision, a branch of artificial intelligence (AI), they’ve developed a 3D printer that doesn’t just print, it also sees and ...

Temperatures in the Mediterranean are currently rising to record levels. Instead of a refreshing dip, holidaymakers in places like Greece, Italy, and Spain, among other places, are now facing water temperatures up to 28°C or even higher. With an average water temperature of 26.9°C, July 2025 was the warmest since records began for the Mediterranean Sea, according to the Copernicus Earth Observation Service. Warming caused by climate change is considered – alongside stressors such as overfishing, pollution, and habitat destruction – a major factor threatening marine and coastal habitats. “The consequences ...

Scientists have developed a tool made from a modified glue gun that can 3D print bone grafts directly onto fractures and defects during surgery. The tool, described September 5th in the Cell Press journal Device, has been tested in rabbits to quickly create complex bone implants without the need for prefabricating in advance. What’s more, the team optimized the 3D-printed grafts for high structural flexibility, release of anti-inflammatory antibiotics, and promotion of natural bone regrowth at the grafting site. Historically, bone implants have been made of metal, donor ...

The cause of death for two baby pterosaurs has been revealed by University of Leicester palaeontologists in a post-mortem 150 million years in the making. Detailed in a new study in the journal Current Biology, their findings show how these flying reptiles were tragically struck down by powerful storms that also created the ideal conditions to preserve them and hundreds more fossils like them. The Mesozoic, or age of reptiles, is often imagined as a time of giants. Towering dinosaurs, monstrous marine reptiles, and vast-winged pterosaurs dominate museum halls and the public consciousness. But this familiar picture is skewed. Just as today’s ...

About The Study: In this survey study examining food insecurity in the U.S. during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, food insecurity declined among all subgroups between 2019 and 2021 but exceeded pre-pandemic levels by 2023; new food insecurity accounted for much of that increase. The increase in new food insecurity is concerning, as these households face elevated risk for adverse health outcomes. Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Elise Sheinberg, MPH, RDN, email esheinberg@g.harvard.edu. To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at this link https://media.jamanetwork.com/ (doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.3603) Editor’s ...

About The Study: The findings of this study suggest that caregiver stress and household instability may be key mechanisms by which food insecurity is negatively associated with child mental health. Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Merelise R. Ametti, PhD, MPH, email merelise.ametti@mainehealth.org. To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at this link https://media.jamanetwork.com/ (doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.30691) Editor’s Note: Please see the article for additional information, including other authors, author contributions and affiliations, conflict of interest and financial disclosures, and funding and ...

About The Study: This retrospective cohort study of incident hemodialysis patients found that system-based disparities in pre-dialysis access to nephrology care contribute to approximately one-third of incident vascular access disparities among Hispanic individuals. Targeted system-based remedies and policies are needed to improve timely identification and nephrology referrals among Hispanic individuals, for equitable improvements in incident kidney failure outcomes. Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Ashutosh M. Shukla, ...

New Brunswick, NJ, September 5, 2025 -- When hospitalized patients struggle to breathe, doctors typically reach for their stethoscopes, but results from a Rutgers and RWJBarnabas Health clinical study in JAMA Network Open suggest they should diagnose the problem with portable ultrasounds instead. The study found initial exams with portable ultrasounds led to better diagnoses, shorter hospital stays and big cost savings. However, the findings revealed a need for additional training and workflow integration to help clinicians ...

Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences doctoral student Ana Campos Codo has been selected for the 2025 cohort of the Gilliam Fellows Program by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Codo, a student in the Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Ph.D. program, is one of 30 graduate students representing 23 different institutions across the United States who were chosen this year. The 21-year-old Gilliam Fellows program, which launches promising doctoral students into impactful scientific research careers while fostering inclusive training ...

The addition of the hormone progesterone to gender-affirming hormone therapy leads to increased breast growth for transgender people following feminising hormone therapy. This is demonstrated by an Amsterdam UMC-led trial among 90 participants and these results are presented today at the European Professional Association for Transgender Health (EPATH) annual congress in Hamburg. "Our results show that progesterone is safe and effective for transgender people. We're now able to prescribe it, in a trial setting, for those who have been taking oestradiol for at least year. We hope that ...

Recently, a research team led by Professor Ge Lei from China University of Petroleum (Beijing) developed a simple template-free method to prepare cobalt-based and manganese-based precursors, and then doped W during the synthesis of transition bimetallic phosphides to obtain the W-doped bimetallic phosphides. The resulting catalyst exhibits excellent bifunctionality and can can be utilized as an electrode in anion exchange membrane (AEM) water electrolyzers. The research results have been published in the Chinese Journal of Catalysis. W-CoMnP exhibits excellent oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) performance, with relatively low overpotentials ...

In the present era of modern nano-technologies, controlling light at the smallest scales is the key to faster communications, ultra-sensitive sensors, and revolutionary imaging systems. This is where Dirac plasmon polaritons (DPPs) come into play—exotic waves that blend light and electron motion in ultra-thin, two-dimensional materials.   Unlike ordinary light waves, which are limited by the speed of light in free space, DPPs can squeeze light into spaces a hundred times smaller than its natural wavelength. This makes them incredibly ...

Soft magnetic materials can be easily magnetized and demagnetized, which makes them a key component in electrical power devices, such as generators, transformers, and amplifiers. As power electronics advance toward high-frequency operation, demand is growing for low-loss soft magnetic materials. The efficiency of these materials is fundamentally limited by iron loss, where energy is lost as heat when a varying magnetic field passes through them, as is typical in transformers and generators. Iron loss mainly consists of hysteresis loss, classical eddy current loss, and excess eddy current loss. Among these, excess eddy current loss becomes increasingly dominant ...

Over five percent of children and adolescents are diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) globally. This condition is characterized by a short attention span, hyperactivity or impulsive behavior that is age-inappropriate, making it difficult for patients to navigate interpersonal relationships, the formal education system, and social life. Researchers have used brain imaging analyses such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to understand the neurological basis of ADHD. Understanding brain structure abnormalities that lead to ADHD-related pathologies is crucial for designing early assessment and intervention systems, especially for children. Although ...

CLEVELAND—Technology developed at Case Western Reserve University can restore a sense of touch that makes a prosthetic hand feel like a part of one’s own body instead of feeling artificial and disconnected. Now this technology will take a major step toward commercialization: in a new clinical trial, 12 people with upper limb amputation will be recruited to compare standard prosthetic arms and hands to the sensory-enabled neural-controlled prostheses developed at the university since 2015. Researchers at Case Western Reserve ...

Truckee, CA (5 September 2025) -- New research finds that treated forests are 88% less susceptible to high severity wildfire than their unmanaged counterparts, and can recover carbon stocks in only 7 years. The findings, carried out by researchers at Vibrant Planet, Northern Arizona University, American Forest Foundation, and Blue Forest, make the case for more proactive forest management across the US, and specifically, the increasingly wildfire-prone West. Read the publication in Frontiers in Forests and Global ...

A study has found that adolescents become highly motivated to seek rewards after just a few hours of social isolation. This may be beneficial in driving them towards social interaction, but when opportunities for connection are limited could lead them to pursue less healthy rewards like alcohol or drugs. When we feel socially isolated, our brain motivates us to seek rewards. Current theory holds that this is a beneficial evolutionary adaptation to help us reconnect with others. The University of Cambridge-led study found that people in their late teens are very sensitive ...

A pizza shop with 30 delivery people ought to be able to deliver a lot of pizzas — if their cars don’t break down on the way. Likewise, genes that produce a lot of messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules can build a lot of proteins — if these molecules don’t fall apart before the job gets done. Inside almost every human cell is DNA, a comprehensive instruction manual for building and maintaining the body. Genes in that manual contain the instructions for making proteins. But those instructions must travel from the cell’s nucleus, where the DNA lives, to the outer region of the cell ...

Fibrosis of the lungs is often a silent disease until it's too late. By the time patients are diagnosed, the scarring of their lung tissue is already advanced, and current treatments offer little more than a slowing of the inevitable. But what if we could understand the very first steps of this disease before irreversible damage sets in? That’s the question Claudia Loebel, Reliance Industries Term Assistant Professor in Bioengineering, and Donia Ahmed, a doctoral student in Loebel’s lab, set out to answer. Their Nature Materials paper, a collaborative study spanning the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan and Drexel University, explores how subtle changes ...

East Hanover, NJ – Sept 5, 2025 –Trevor Dyson-Hudson, MD, FASIA, of Kessler Foundation was awarded the prestigious James J. Peters Distinguished Service Award at the 2025 Annual Meeting and Expo of the Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals (ASCIP) in Philadelphia today. He has been recognized for his outstanding contributions and accomplishments in spinal cord injury healthcare and his dedication to excellence in treating SCI patients. Dr. Dyson-Hudson is co-director of the Center for Spinal Cord Injury Research and the Derfner-Lieberman Laboratory for Regenerative ...

Niigata, Japan - Researchers from Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Japan have revealed that environment influences social behaviours in autism. By using zebrafish that have a mutation in ube3a, a gene linked to Angelman Syndrome (AS) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD), they demonstrated that sensory processing of environmental information is determinant in the outcome of socializing or not. The findings suggest that environmental adjustment could hold therapeutic potential in ASD.　 ASD is characterized by difficulties in social interaction and repetitive behaviours. While genetics are known to play an important role, environmental ...

Corals may lack eyes, but they are far from blind. These delicate animals sense light in ways that continue to amaze and inspire the scientific community. Researchers from Osaka Metropolitan University’s Graduate School of Science have uncovered a unique light-sensing mechanism of reef-building corals, in which light-detecting proteins, known as opsins, use chloride ions to flip between UV and visible light sensitivity depending on the pH of their surroundings. Their findings suggest a unique functionality that expands our understanding of vision and photoreception across the animal kingdom. Animal vision relies on opsins, which are proteins that ...

Breast milk is the first ‘super food’ for many babies. Full of vitamins, minerals, and other bioactive compounds, it helps build the young immune system and is widely considered the optimal source of infant nutrition. Not all mothers, however, have the opportunity to directly breastfeed multiple times during the day and night, and might use expressed milk stored for later. Breast milk delivers a variety of cues from the mother to the infant, including signals that are thought to influence babies’ circadian rhythms. The hormones and proteins involved in circadian signaling, however, may vary in breast milk concentration ...