High alcohol intake raises mortality risk regardless of what you drink. But at low to moderate levels, wine drinkers had significantly lower death rates than those who favored beer, cider, or spirits, a major UK Biobank analysis finds.

WSU geologists traced Idaho's massive silver and cobalt deposits to residual brines left by evaporating shallow seas over 1.2 billion years ago. The salty fluids dissolved metals deep underground and redeposited them in minable veins near the surface.

A new predictive tool developed by University of Copenhagen researchers uses U.S. outbreak data to map where and when H5N1 is most likely to jump from wild birds to Danish cattle herds - pinpointing western coastal regions and winter months as the danger zone.

A manganese-doped bismuth ferrite thin film grown on standard silicon delivers five times the energy-harvesting efficiency of earlier versions, opening a realistic path to mass-produced, lead-free vibration sensors.

For decades, MS patients had almost nothing. Ludwig Kappos helped build the clinical trial framework that turned a hopeless diagnosis into a manageable disease -- and changed how we understand progression itself.

For the first time, researchers decoded intended leg movements directly from nerves in above-knee amputees, using implants thinner than a human hair and an AI that speaks the nervous system's own language of electrical spikes.

The European Psychiatric Association launches a sweeping action plan targeting misdiagnosis, workforce shortages, and vulnerable populations — but delivering precision psychiatry across 47 nations demands more than good intentions.

ETH Zurich researchers used an enzyme from watermelon seeds to bind sawdust with the mineral struvite, creating a lightweight, fully recyclable building panel that delays ignition threefold and may match cement-board fire ratings at a fraction of the carbon cost.

Engineers at TU Graz built a neuroadaptive virtual reality system that monitors EEG and heart rate during arachnophobia therapy, automatically dialing spider intensity up or down based on objective stress signals rather than a therapist's guess.

A longitudinal study reveals that brain vascular lesions in Down syndrome don't simply accumulate over time — they fluctuate and even shrink, challenging assumptions about irreversible damage and reshaping how researchers approach Alzheimer's therapies.

A Loma Linda University study dismantles the widespread belief that baby rattlesnakes are more dangerous than adults, showing adult snakes deliver far more venom and cause substantially worse symptoms.

A University of Michigan poll of Americans over 50 finds that 32% are unpaid caregivers, yet many don't know about respite programs or adult day services that could ease their burden — especially those without their own support networks.

A study of 1.16 million heart procedures across 1,243 hospitals in Japan found that relaxing facility requirements for rotational atherectomy expanded access without increasing complications, offering a model for evidence-based healthcare policy reform worldwide.

An eye-tracking study from Waseda University and MIT reveals that the brain actively predicts sentence structure in real time rather than waiting for all the words. Japanese speakers learning English adopt English-like prediction patterns instead of transferring their native strategy — a finding with implications for language teaching and AI.

An analysis of 88.8 million deaths across 653 European regions reveals that the poorest communities face twice the mortality risk from air pollution as wealthy ones, even as renewable energy cuts particulate matter by up to 54%.

A groundbreaking liquid biopsy developed by Oxford and Tanzanian researchers slashes Burkitt lymphoma diagnosis from 47 days to just 6.5, offering hope for children battling a cancer that is over 90% curable when caught early but kills more than half its victims due to delayed detection.

California lost $1.1 billion to drought in a single year. Now a massive single-cell study of nearly one million plant cells has identified FRO6, a gene that could help crops survive water scarcity without sacrificing growth — a breakthrough for climate-stressed agriculture worldwide.

Research reveals that the transition from milk to solid food triggers a one-time epigenetic event that programs lifelong gut immunity. Antibiotics during this critical window may cause lasting damage, offering new insight into rising rates of IBD and colorectal cancer in young adults.

A turkey-sized baby dinosaur from a Korean island is the peninsula's first new species in 15 years and its first with skull bones. Named after cartoon character Dooly, the thescelosaurid was revealed only after micro-CT scanning exposed bones hidden inside rock.

Researchers traced a single molecule, TGF-β1, as the key driver of fibrotic scarring after spinal cord injury. Newborn mice lacking this signal recover fully, while adults form dense scars. Blocking TGF-β1 in adult mice reduced scarring and restored movement.

A new algorithm called NTAC classifies neuron types using only synaptic connectivity data, outperforming traditional morphology-based methods and requiring just a fraction of labeled training data. The approach could reshape how we map the brain.

Recent technological advances facilitate the reconstruction of complete brain connectomes in small organisms and partial connectomes in mammals, involving the mapping of the network of neurons and synaptic connections. Accurate cell typing of these connectomes aids in interpreting circuit functions and comparing brain organization across species. Traditionally, cell typing relied on manual morphological classification by experts—a slow process that required detailed anatomical information. However, morphology can be deceptive or inadequate in many brain regions, especially in circuits ...

People often seem to understand language before they have actually heard enough words to determine its structure. In everyday conversation, listeners react immediately, anticipate what others will say, and rarely wait for a sentence to finish. This raises the question of how the brain is able to keep up with such rapid communication. In a new study, an international team of researchers, led by Associate Professor Chie Nakamura from the School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, Japan, investigated how listeners interpret structurally ambiguous sentences in ...

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a standard treatment for significant coronary artery disease. Cardiologists use a catheter to place a stent that opens up the blockage and restores blood flow to the heart. However, dense, calcified atherosclerotic plaque can prevent proper placement or unfolding of stents, resulting in reduced blood flow to the heart even after PCI. Rotational atherectomy (RA) is a specialized technique used to modify heavily calcified plaque before stent placement. A conical burr ablates the calcified plaque, creating ...

Spinal cord injury (SCI) often leads to long-term loss of motor and sensory function, with limited available treatment options to restore the lost function. A major challenge in recovery is the formation of scar tissue at the injury site that prevents damaged nerve fibers from regenerating. Glial scarring has been thoroughly investigated, while fibrotic scar formation has been less studied. Transforming growth factor -β1 (TGF-β1), a signaling molecule that regulates inflammation and tissue repair, has been known to play a critical role in fibrosis in many tissues. Understanding how fibrotic scars form could aid in the ...