A study in AIP Advances demonstrates that smartphones emit model-specific electromagnetic signatures when transmitting, enabling remote verification of hardware integrity without physical inspection - a method aimed at securing devices issued to military and government users.

A study in JAMA Network Open found that overdiagnosis of papillary thyroid cancer in the U.S. remains substantial and suggests that reducing ultrasound referrals for nonpalpable thyroid nodules could lower unnecessary diagnoses and treatment harms without increasing mortality.

A cohort study published in JAMA Network Open found that stroke patients who are dual-eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, or enrolled in Medicare Advantage, were less likely to receive post-acute care from high-quality skilled nursing facilities and home health agencies compared with traditional Medicare patients.

NYU chemists published in Chem a one-pot method using light-sensitive photoacid molecules to control when and where colloidal crystals form - creating, destroying, and reshaping structures on demand with a simple change in illumination, without redesigning particles.

University of Toronto researchers used an AI-robotics platform called LUMI-lab to autonomously discover a new class of mRNA delivery lipids, finding brominated candidates that outperformed clinical benchmarks in preclinical models after the system was pretrained on 28 million molecular structures.

An international team led by QUT and Nanyang Technological University found that the nonlinear Hall effect in topological insulator Bi2Te3 persists to room temperature, with the voltage direction controllable by temperature through competing scattering contributions.

An Illinois Institute of Technology randomized trial found that 82 adults with prediabetes who ate one avocado and one cup of mango daily for eight weeks showed significant improvements in endothelial function and diastolic blood pressure without weight gain.

The COINS trial at Deakin University found that daily natural peanut butter supplementation significantly improved lower-body muscle power in adults aged 66-89 at fall risk, with gains on a five-repetition sit-to-stand test compared to a calorie-matched control group.

A University of Oklahoma-led study in Aging-US profiled circular RNAs from the mitochondrial genome in young and old human blood cells, identifying circMT-RNR2 as an age-associated molecule linked to GRSF1 activity and TCA cycle intermediate production.

A Nature Communications study from Dartmouth challenges the view that the amygdala is a simple fear center, showing instead that it actively mediates which of two competing learning strategies the brain uses when outcomes are uncertain - with implications for treating phobias.

The University of Texas at Dallas piloted the inaugural Brain Health Prize during BrainHealth Week 2026, with winning teams proposing gamified resilience networks and reflective storytelling programs aimed at building stress coping skills in college students.

A Chiba University study found that two closely related crustaceans occupy distinct zones in Tokyo Bay corresponding to nighttime light intensity, with one species showing reduced growth and activity under chronic artificial illumination in laboratory tests.

MIT neuroscientists built three neural-network tools that solve the long-standing problem of tracking and identifying individual neurons in transparent animals as they move. The suite, tested on C. elegans worms and jellyfish, could help any lab working with large microscopy datasets.

Mice lacking ATG14 in liver cells developed fivefold liver enlargement, massive oxidative damage, and simultaneous activation of four regulated cell death programs - findings that may point toward new therapeutic targets for fatty liver disease and fibrosis.

A Mount Sinai study published in Nature Medicine found ChatGPT Health under-triaged more than half of emergency cases identified by physician consensus and its suicide-crisis safeguards appeared inversely linked to clinical risk level across 960 structured interactions.

A $9 million U.S. Office of Naval Research award is funding a five-year effort to build entangled networks of quantum sensors and measure their true performance limits, with potential benefits for atomic clocks, GPS-free navigation, and electromagnetic sensing.

A study from Florida Atlantic University tracked more than 31,500 behavioral observations and found that oleamide, a chemical shed by common plastics, disrupts chemical communication between octopuses and crustacean prey in ways that persist well after the chemical is removed.

Researcher Daiki Sato used genetic analysis, remote sensing, and behavioral experiments on two Tokyo Bay isopods and found that artificial light at night explains their different distribution patterns, with light exposure reducing activity in one species and acting as a barrier to genetic exchange.

A Perspective by Michael Lynch and Andrew Ellington argues the ribosome likely began as a viral-like parasite in proto-cells, assembling short peptides before the host became dependent on its products - joining the spliceosome and possibly mitochondria as structures with antagonistic origins.

Analysis of decades of survey data by James Druckman and colleagues shows individual economic satisfaction and happiness have remained relatively stable since the 1970s, while institutional confidence and democratic satisfaction have declined sharply - with partisan divides in trust now far wider than in 1974.

Murdoch Children's Research Institute researchers studied 1,179 children aged 2-12 and published the first updated English speech data in over two decades. Their screening tool identifies true speech disorders, reducing unnecessary referrals for common errors that typically resolve on their own.

Juntendo University researchers developed and validated the J-ATTARI-12 scale with 326 Japanese medical trainees, finding two distinct attitude clusters: AI anxiety and aversion versus AI optimism and acceptance. The scale will support AI curriculum development.

Shibaura Institute of Technology's MambaAlign framework fuses RGB cameras with thermal or depth sensors using state-space processing to detect industrial defects, improving pixel-level anomaly localization by ~6.5% and running close to 30 fps - enough for real production lines.

Brain imaging of 16 children aged 5-7 with congenital upper limb difference found that the somatosensory cortex remaps not just the limb area but the entire body map - a process driven by homeostatic plasticity that appears stable through adulthood.

Global wastewater contains the chemical energy equivalent of 100 nuclear power plants annually. A review in Frontiers in Science outlines how electricity-producing bacteria could reclaim this energy plus 11% of global ammonia demand and 7% of phosphate demand - if regulatory and engineering barriers are cleared.