Interviews with 33 individuals who traveled from states with abortion bans to Illinois reveal an average one-month delay between deciding to seek an abortion and receiving care, with stigma, cost, and information gaps compounding the burden.

A major meta-analysis in JAMA Pediatrics finds consistent associations between digital media use and poorer health outcomes in children and adolescents, with social media carrying the highest risk profile across mental health, sleep, and body weight measures.

A new study in JAMA Network Open finds that people living in states with abortion bans face significant obstacles to obtaining care out of state, including financial strain, logistical complexity, and limited access to information about available resources.

Researchers found that youth use smartphones for approximately one-third of the school day, and that habitual checking behaviors during school hours were associated with reduced cognitive control, suggesting phone bans may need to address checking habits, not just total screen time.

A Taiwanese cohort study found associations between maternal acetaminophen prescriptions during pregnancy and offspring ADHD or autism in the full cohort, but sibling-matched analyses showed no such link, pointing to unresolved bias in the evidence.

A randomized clinical trial from Stanford found that a low-cost digital intervention combining written microsteps and short video boosters increased expectations to adopt health behaviors among adults using GLP-1 receptor agonists, with effects lasting at least two weeks.

A ferritin-based molecular bridge called FACE enhances CAR T cell recognition of leukemia cells that have lost their target antigens, achieving 100% survival in mouse models of relapsed disease without requiring any genetic re-engineering of the therapy.

In a study of nearly 6,000 U.S. adults, high waist circumference was linked to an 11-fold increase in liver fibrosis rates in women compared to a 4-fold increase in men, pointing to sex-specific pathways in metabolic liver disease.

An international group of AI experts recommends that governments redesign services around actual problems before deploying AI, invest in institutional capacity, rebalance vendor power, and build public trust through transparency, citing an 80% failure rate for AI projects.

Analyzing genomes from six major viral families, researchers found that pandemic viruses typically show no signs of evolutionary adaptation before infecting humans, while laboratory-passaged viruses produce detectable genetic signatures, offering a new tool for outbreak forensics.

University of Iowa researchers recorded a burst of high-frequency brain waves called ripples, emanating from the hippocampus to cortical learning regions after 20 minutes of cycling, marking the first direct evidence of exercise-triggered memory ripples in the human brain.

Research from Linkoping University shows that employees in traditional open-plan offices face a clearly elevated risk of workplace bullying compared to those with private or shared offices, regardless of personality or remote work frequency.

Studies of roughly 1,700 Swedish workers show that perceiving colleagues as preferring their phones over break-time conversation is associated with a poorer psychosocial work environment, even though one's own phone use shows no such link.

Researchers at the University of Zurich identified a distributed brain network that activates whenever people reassess their opponent's strategy, creating a neural fingerprint of social cognition that predicted adaptive behavior in nearly 90% of participants.

Researchers identified FOXJ3 as a new genetic cause of focal cortical dysplasia, the most common driver of drug-resistant epilepsy. The gene controls how neurons migrate to form cortical layers, and restoring its downstream target PTEN rescued brain defects in experimental models.

Women who experienced preeclampsia, preterm birth, or other pregnancy complications showed a 2 mm Hg increase in blood pressure years later when combined with high perceived stress, a pattern not seen in women with uncomplicated pregnancies.

Swiss sleep researchers tracked exhaustion levels in 418 people across an entire year and found no evidence that spring fatigue is a biological phenomenon, suggesting it may be a culturally reinforced expectation rather than a seasonal syndrome.

Despite laboratory evidence suggesting dangerous drug interactions, a retrospective analysis of 2,997 Canadian adults found no increased bleeding or clotting risk when prostate cancer drugs like enzalutamide and apalutamide were used alongside direct oral anticoagulants.

A new paper by researchers from UCLA Health, Harvard, Colorado, and Brown proposes that neurologists adopt brief spiritual screening for patients with conditions like Parkinson's and dementia, citing evidence that unaddressed spiritual distress worsens quality of life.

Researchers found a 'truth-falsity crossover effect' in which AI labels on social media posts decreased the perceived credibility of accurate scientific content while increasing it for false claims, complicating regulatory efforts to mandate AI transparency.

A new study in JCAP shows that a population of blazars could explain the origin of the most energetic neutrino ever detected, a 220 PeV particle recorded by the still-incomplete KM3NeT/ARCA detector in the Mediterranean Sea in February 2023.

New stimulant prescriptions for adults in Ontario more than doubled after the COVID-19 pandemic began, with the steepest increases among 18- to 24-year-olds and a notable shift toward female recipients, according to a study in CMAJ spanning 2016 to 2024.

A newly described Late Triassic reptile, Sonselasuchus cedrus, appears to have shifted from quadrupedal to bipedal locomotion during growth -- a developmental transition not previously documented in its family group.

An AI tool applied to standard mammograms detected breast artery calcification that predicted cardiovascular risk: women with severe calcification were two to three times more likely to suffer heart attack, stroke, or cardiovascular death.

Oxford engineers have developed a method to fabricate soft robotic actuators in under 10 minutes at less than 10 cents per unit, using vacuum-sealable plastic pouches and laser cutting. A gripper built this way lifts 25 times its own weight.