The New York Consortium for Space Technology Innovation and Development has selected five projects for its second round of defense-funded awards, ranging from a Cornell facility to test materials in simulated space environments to a Griffiss Institute program putting middle schoolers to work on rocket payloads.

A new JAMA Network Open study found that residency applications fell significantly in states that enacted new abortion restrictions after the Dobbs ruling. Male applicants changed behavior at even higher rates than female applicants, and the decline hit primary care specialties hardest.

By pairing conventional frying with microwave heating, researchers at the University of Illinois reduced oil absorption in French fries while maintaining crispiness. The microwave energy heats food from the inside out, creating positive pressure that keeps oil out of the pores.

In 238 people with MS tracked over three years, those whose morning activity levels declined were 20% more likely to experience disease progression. Drops in activity between 8 and 10 a.m. correlated with measurable brain volume loss, suggesting wearable sensors could serve as early warning tools.

Among 72,025 young athletes with sports-related traumatic brain injuries, football accounted for 19% of all cases. Repeat TBIs occurred in 37% of football injuries versus 32% across all sports, and affected players showed higher rates of chronic headaches, vision problems, and mood disorders.

Analyzing 64 immune biomarkers across 100 weeks of COVID-19 vaccination data, researchers found machine learning could distinguish HIV-positive from HIV-negative responses with near-100% accuracy. But a handful of individuals broke the pattern, hinting at what personalized vaccination could look like.

Baylor College of Medicine researchers found that deleting a single gene segment boosted MeCP2 protein levels by up to 60% in mice and restored normal cell function in Rett syndrome patient-derived neurons, pointing toward a potential antisense therapy for the rare condition.

A sentiment analysis of social media posts around U.S. daylight saving time changes from 2019 to 2023 confirms that both transitions generate negative reactions - but the fall switch to Standard Time produces a gloomier, more persistent response than the spring transition.

A multi-technique analysis of food crusts from Neolithic and Mesolithic pottery shows that European hunter-gatherer-fishers combined a wide variety of plants with seafood in their cooking - a level of culinary complexity that standard lipid analysis had systematically missed.

LGB+ NHS workers overall show no pay gap relative to heterosexual colleagues, but a new study finds a clear divide within that group: workers who have disclosed their sexual identity earn more, while those who have not face a statistically significant pay penalty.

A protein called DeltaFosB accumulates in the brain's reward-memory circuit during chronic cocaine use, turning genes on and off in ways that create the compulsion to relapse. Without it, cocaine does not produce the same drive to seek the drug, mouse studies show.

Acoustic AI systems can identify mosquito species with up to 97% accuracy in lab conditions. But a study recording hundreds of wild mosquitoes in Hungary found that temperature, sex, and individual variation create real-world noise that current training data can't handle.

By equipping cancer-fighting immune cells with the ability to block a protein that tumors use to suppress immune attacks, UCLA researchers eliminated glioblastoma tumors in up to 88% of preclinical models where standard CAR-T therapy had little effect.

A 1,497-meter drill core from northeastern China has pinned the end of a key geomagnetic reversal to 121.26 million years ago, revealing that terrestrial ecosystems responded to a major oceanic anoxia event more than a million years after the oceans did.

New volume electron microscopy of the ctenophore aboral organ found 17 cell types - 11 previously unknown - and direct synaptic connections to the nervous system. The data suggests centralized nervous systems may have evolved independently in distant animal lineages.

For the first time, physicists have measured the turbulent magnetic structure of space at sub-parsec scales by studying gamma rays above 100 TeV pouring from the Geminga pulsar. The finding aligns with turbulence laws derived on scales billions of times larger.

An AI system trained to detect cancer in fragmented DNA has been repurposed to catch liver fibrosis early - when it's still reversible. A study of 1,576 patients showed it outperforms existing blood markers for early liver disease.

A proof-of-concept study shows that guiding cells to skip a small segment of the MECP2 gene increases protein levels by up to 60% in mice and partially restores electrical activity and gene regulation in cells from Rett syndrome patients - opening a potential antisense therapy route.

An MIT study using eye-tracking and EEG found that volunteers unconsciously shifted visual focus to the right part of an image as they became expert classifiers - and when shown those gaze maps, their accuracy improved further, suggesting tacit knowledge can be extracted and taught.

Women's blood clotting patterns shifted measurably after just five days in simulated microgravity, with longer initiation times but faster and stronger clot formation, according to an SFU-ESA study published in Acta Astronautica.

By engineering a single oxidative modification into the gamma-S crystallin protein, UC Irvine researchers showed that a subtle chemical change - invisible in normal conditions - causes the protein to clump far more readily under stress, suggesting an early molecular step in cataract formation.

A machine learning pipeline can predict Raman spectra for solid battery electrolytes at near-quantum accuracy and a fraction of the computational cost, revealing that low-frequency Raman features reliably flag the liquid-like ion motion needed for high performance.

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia researchers reviewed how generative AI affects children differently at ages 0-5, 6-11, and 12-plus, finding age-specific risks from blurred social boundaries in toddlers to unfiltered mental health responses for teens.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics show that face-to-face conversation is a dynamic coordination system distributed across two bodies and minds, where meaning emerges through continuous mutual prediction and real-time adjustment.

Evo 2, trained on 9.3 trillion nucleotides from more than 128,000 whole genomes, can design synthetic genomes as long as simple bacteria and predict which gene variants cause disease - tasks that previously required years of laboratory work.