A study of 237 species found that critical flicker fusion rates - a measure of how fast animals process visual information - are tightly linked to ecological lifestyle. Flying animals process visual information roughly twice as fast as non-flyers; sedentary species perceive the world far more slowly.

A study of 50 Tour de France editions found that dangerous heat conditions have become increasingly common at race locations since 2014. Southwestern cities including Toulouse, Pau, and Bordeaux carry the highest risk; Paris and Lyon are emerging as new hotspots.

Using the new Pico-C technique, researchers at the MRC and Max Planck Institute found the 3D genome scaffold in newly fertilized fly embryos is already structured before the genome activates - and that loss of this scaffold triggers false immune alarms in human cells.

UCC researchers found that a high-fat, high-sugar diet during early development caused lasting changes in mouse hypothalamus circuits governing appetite, persisting even after diet normalization. Probiotic Bifidobacterium longum APC1472 and prebiotic fibers reduced these effects.

Northwestern researchers developed HYDRAC polymer degraders that successfully eliminated MYC and KRAS proteins - two of cancer's most treatment-resistant drivers - in cell cultures and animal tumor models, with no significant side effects at tested doses.

A Complexity Science Hub and Harvard Growth Lab study of 1.6 million patents found U.S. technological dominance arose from a concentrated shift in the early 1920s, when industrial research labs replaced individual inventors - but systematically excluded women and immigrants.

A study from Earth-Life Science Institute finds that enhanced enzyme diffusion after catalysis functions as molecular 'memory,' allowing enzymes to bias reaction outcomes beyond simple catalysis - a biological realization of the Maxwell's Demon thought experiment.

Osaka Metropolitan University researchers used continuous methane and ethane monitoring from a tower and a bicycle to show urban emissions from small sources - restaurants, homes, and sewage - are substantially underestimated by government inventories.

A University of Waterloo team engineered Clostridium sporogenes to tolerate oxygen at tumor edges using a quorum-sensing gene switch, overcoming the key limitation of bacteria-based cancer therapy. Pre-clinical trials are planned.

Using oxytocin sensor imaging and optogenetics, Wuhan University researchers found that sleep deprivation impairs social memory by disrupting oxytocin release in hippocampal CA2 and prelimbic cortex. High-frequency stimulation of oxytocin neurons restored memory and behavior.

Kumamoto University researchers screened 1,509 plant extracts and identified PGG - found in pomegranate leaves and branches - as a compound capable of directly disassembling TTR amyloid fibrils linked to progressive heart and nerve disease.

UCLA researchers compared 135 patients on standard TMS therapy with 40 who completed a compressed five-day protocol. Both groups showed similar reductions in depression scores, with some patients in the accelerated group showing delayed improvement two to four weeks post-treatment.

A study of 1,036 women's pandemic-era postpartum care experiences found broadly positive views of virtual appointments for routine care, but persistent concern about the adequacy of telephone and video consultations when infants showed signs of illness.

An editorial in Carbon Research warns that urban fountains using reclaimed water can aerosolize Legionella, E. coli, and toxic chemicals like perfluoroalkyl acids at concentrations far higher in air than in the source water, with no unified global safety standards in place.

Researchers propose applying biochar to rewetted peatlands, where anaerobic waterlogged conditions could dramatically slow biochar decomposition and allow the use of lower-temperature, higher-yield production methods that current carbon programs disfavor.

NYU Langone researchers found microplastic particles in 90% of prostate cancer tissue samples and at significantly higher concentrations inside tumors than in nearby noncancerous tissue, in a small 10-patient study exploring plastic exposure and prostate cancer.

The Morrow Plots at the University of Illinois, the oldest continuously running agricultural experiment in North America and second oldest in the world, celebrate their 150th anniversary in 2026, with findings from the plots still influencing modern crop rotation and soil management.

Physicists demonstrated that chiral phonons - corkscrew-pattern atomic vibrations in non-magnetic materials like quartz - can directly transfer orbital angular momentum to electrons, removing a key barrier to practical orbitronic computing devices.

Washington University School of Medicine received an $80 million NIH renewal grant for the Long Life Family Study, which has tracked 5,000 people from 530 families with exceptional longevity since 2006 and is now analyzing whole genomes for protective variants against age-related disease.

A study analyzing 1901-2020 climate data found that synchronized droughts affect only 1.8% to 6.5% of global land simultaneously, far below previous estimates of one-sixth of the planet, with ocean temperature patterns acting as the key limiting mechanism.

Scientists at iDiv, UFZ, and Leipzig University developed a center-of-mass metric for global vegetation and found that Earth's green center has been drifting northward as Northern Hemisphere greening increasingly outpaces southern vegetation changes.

A Warwick mathematical model shows that even extremely low levels of altruism - valuing others' lives at just 1/100,000 of one's own - are sufficient to make self-isolation a rational choice during infection, and that when many people behave this way, epidemics can be prevented.

A computational study of 3,000+ signs on 260 Stone Age objects found that Palaeolithic carvings dating to 34,000-45,000 years ago carry the same information density as proto-cuneiform writing from 3,000 BCE - suggesting the cognitive roots of writing are far older than the oldest known script.

MIT scientists developed a method to detect the specific stratospheric temperature signals of individual volcanic eruptions and wildfires against background climate noise, confirming measurable atmospheric effects from Pinatubo (1991), the 2019-20 Australian fires, and Hunga Tonga (2022).

An Ohio State study found that youth born in the 1990s spend substantially more time in adult-organized formal sports than earlier generations, with socioeconomic gaps in access to formal sports growing particularly pronounced.