Heaters made from carbon nanotube fibers, including woven fabrics, consistently achieved higher specific power loadings than metal-alloy elements in flowing gas environments, a Rice University study reports, offering a new pathway for electrifying industrial heat.

People who narrowed the gap between their biological age and chronological age over six years were 23% less likely to suffer a stroke and showed 13% less white matter brain damage per standard deviation of improvement, a large observational study found.

University of Rochester researchers tracked neurons in the visual cortex over weeks of learning and found that neurons increased shared activity rather than becoming more independent, challenging the dominant theory that learning reduces neural redundancy.

Stanford materials engineers married century-old lead selenide semiconductors with modern gallium arsenide crystals to create bright infrared LEDs that tolerate billions of defects per square centimeter, potentially enabling cheaper infrared sensing for environmental and medical applications.

University of Oregon physicists mathematically created the first ideal glass, a structure where amorphous molecules are packed as densely as possible. The material behaves mechanically like a crystal despite having no repeating structure.

A Cornell University mouse study found that adult exposure to diverse microbes worsened allergic airway inflammation rather than protecting against it, complicating the hygiene hypothesis that microbial exposure prevents allergic disease.

A new study in Science projects that forest disturbance in Europe from wildfires and bark beetles will rise from 180,000 to at least 216,000 hectares per year by 2100 under best-case warming, and could nearly double under continued high emissions.

Genomic analysis of 418 koalas across Australia shows that populations that rebounded rapidly after severe bottlenecks are restoring genetic diversity through recombination and new mutations, challenging the assumption that bottlenecks lead inevitably to extinction.

Engineered CAR-expressing astrocytes delivered via viral injection cleared amyloid-beta accumulations in mouse brains, with a single early treatment preventing plaque development entirely, according to a study establishing proof-of-concept for CAR-based Alzheimer's therapy.

Researchers found that a hornwort Rubisco variant carries a 100-amino-acid STAR extension that drives enzyme clustering into pyrenoid-like structures. When introduced into Arabidopsis, the extension triggered similar condensates in chloroplasts.

A large-scale modeling study using satellite data and deep learning projects that climate-driven forest disturbances in Europe, including wildfire and bark beetle outbreaks, will intensify under all climate scenarios through the 21st century.

WashU Medicine researchers engineered astrocytes with chimeric antigen receptors that target amyloid beta plaques. A single injection prevented plaque development in young mice and reduced existing plaques by 50% in older mice.

Researchers discovered that hornworts use a modified Rubisco subunit with an extra protein tail, called STAR, that causes the enzyme to self-cluster into carbon-concentrating compartments. The tail worked when transferred to Arabidopsis plants.

Cornell and UConn researchers found that chromosomal inversions in Atlantic silversides preserve beneficial gene combinations across a temperature gradient, functioning as powerful genetic switches that shape growth rate and vertebral count.

Whole-genome sequencing of 418 koalas across Australia reveals that populations with severe historical bottlenecks are showing signs of genetic recovery through recombination and new mutations, challenging static measures of genetic diversity.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute researchers used machine learning on 815 MRI brain scans to predict Alzheimer's disease with 92.87% accuracy, finding that key brain volume loss patterns differ by sex and age group.

Hospital for Special Surgery presented three studies at AAOS 2026 showing that osseointegration benefits both above- and below-knee amputees equally, can be performed at the time of amputation, and works with custom 3D-printed implants.

The Buck Institute launched Healthspan Horizons, a federated data platform that combines longitudinal real-world health data with aging biology research to identify what drives healthy aging and detect early signals of decline.

The University of Ottawa Heart Institute, University of Ottawa, and McGill University launched ARCHIMEDES, a centralized platform enabling secure cross-institutional sharing of health data to accelerate AI-driven research across Canada.

The Lundbeck Foundation awarded the 2026 Brain Prize, worth DKK 10 million, to David Ginty and Patrik Ernfors for identifying how nerve cells in the skin detect touch and pain and how those signals reach the brain.

Researchers developed a magnetofluid that fills the left atrial appendage, resists blood flow and heartbeat forces, cures in place, and achieved complete endocardialization without thrombus formation in preclinical animal models.

A study in Cell Press Blue reveals that tanycytes actively clear tau from cerebrospinal fluid, and that these cells are fragmented and dysfunctional in human Alzheimer's tissue, pointing to a new mechanism behind toxic protein buildup.

Researchers at Kyoto University injected mRNA directly into the testes of genetically infertile mice, restoring sperm production long enough to generate healthy pups through in vitro fertilization.

Researchers engineered human pluripotent stem cells with eight immunosuppressive genes that allowed them to evade immune rejection for five months in mice with humanized immune systems -- a step toward universal donor cell lines.

Despite the pandemic-era surge in virtual mental health visits, a study of 17,742 Medicare-billing specialists finds that telemedicine did not substantially improve access for patients in rural or underserved areas.