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Medical Xpress / Child vaccination rates are falling fast, with some regions barely reaching 80%

Child vaccination has been one of Australia's biggest success stories. Before the COVID pandemic, we hit the national target of 95% of one-year-olds fully vaccinated. Our child vaccination rates were among the best in the ...

Feb 21, 2026 in Pediatrics
Phys.org / Blood marker from dementia research could help track aging across the animal world

A protein called neurofilament light chain (NfL)—studied in humans in the context of neurodegenerative diseases and aging—is also detectable in the blood of numerous animals, and NfL levels increase with age in mice, ...

Feb 20, 2026 in Biology
Phys.org / Araish spiral galaxy observations uncover a 26,700-light-year radio jet

An international team of astronomers has performed multi-wavelength observations of the nearby Araish galaxy to investigate the origin of its radio emission. As a result, they detected an extended radio jet of this galaxy. ...

Feb 18, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Scientists home in on Acinetobacter baumannii's resistance evolution

Acinetobacter baumannii is a bacteria which can become a virulent killer in health-care settings among severely ill patients. The germ has rapidly developed drug resistance to even last-line carbapenem drugs. Now a group ...

Feb 20, 2026 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Down syndrome study sheds new light on early brain development

A research team led by scientists at Queen Mary University of London and University College London (UCL) has found new clues about how the brains of people with Down syndrome develop differently from a very early age. The ...

Tech Xplore / Shipping damage, measured in real time: How wireless origami cushioning could improve logistics

Origami, the traditional Japanese art of paper folding, has received considerable attention in engineering. By applying paper-folding principles, researchers have created compact structures that are flexible, lightweight, ...

Feb 20, 2026 in Engineering
Medical Xpress / Recurrent prostate cancer: Two treatment strategies with uncertain outcomes compared

Imperial College London investigators compared focal therapy with prostate removal surgery for men with prostate cancer that returned after radiotherapy. Matched analyses estimated 10-year cancer-specific survival at 92% ...

Feb 18, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / How the brain balances continuity and segmentation

Life doesn't arrive in neat chapters. It flows, one conversation bleeding into the next, one thought quietly reshaping the one that follows. Yet our brains do something remarkable: they preserve a sense of continuity while ...

Feb 20, 2026 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / Helping beekeepers fight mites through more effective treatments

Researchers from the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the University of California, Davis, are helping beekeepers protect their colonies from destructive varroa mites. In a new study, the researchers investigate ...

Feb 19, 2026 in Biology
Medical Xpress / How targeting the STING pathway could change care for a common brain tumor

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered a potent immunotherapy approach for treating meningiomas, the most common type of primary brain tumor, according to a study published in Nature Communications.

Feb 20, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer
Tech Xplore / Pinpointing direction in noisy 2D data: New algorithm could improve imaging, AI, particle research and more

A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa student-led team has developed a new algorithm to help scientists determine direction in complex two-dimensional (2D) data, with potential applications ranging from particle physics to machine ...

Feb 20, 2026 in Computer Sciences
Medical Xpress / Invisible harms: Drug-related deaths spike after hurricanes and tropical storms

Tropical cyclones, including hurricanes and tropical storms, are linked to increased rates of drug-related deaths up to three months after the storm passes—particularly in higher-income, white communities and among younger ...

Feb 20, 2026 in Health