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Medical Xpress / Former American football players show higher risk of later-life memory and mental health issues

American football is a high-octane contact sport in which repetitive head impacts (RHI) are a common sight. Researchers investigated the link between playing football and brain health, memory, and mental well-being later ...

Mar 4, 2026
Medical Xpress / Combination therapy reduces effects of 'zombie cells' in diabetic kidney disease, research finds

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a drug-and-supplement combination therapy that is capable of reducing the harmful effects of senescent cells—also known as "zombie cells"—in diabetic kidney disease. In eBioMedicine, ...

Mar 5, 2026
Phys.org / Elephants avoid humans far more than baboons, waterbucks or antelopes

Wild animal species respond very differently to human development, and as a result, they use ecological corridors in agricultural and urban areas in distinct ways. This emerges from research in Botswana by ecologist Marlee ...

Mar 5, 2026
Phys.org / Scientists clock a driving factor in the evolution of error correction

All complex biological systems—like the DNA, RNA and proteins constantly being copied and built within our cells—are prone to errors. That means as life evolved to be more elaborate, it also had to evolve error-correcting ...

Mar 5, 2026
Phys.org / Cleaner water, longer-lasting devices: New benchmark measures electrocatalysis oxidants in real time

From brightly colored textile dyes to persistent pesticides and antibiotics, many modern pollutants dissolved in water—such as Bisphenol A—resist traditional treatment methods. A promising approach uses electricity to ...

Mar 5, 2026
Phys.org / 3D imagery helps bring world's ant diversity to life

For more than a decade, Evan Economo's lab has been using micro-CT machines to scan insect specimens. The resulting X-ray images help researchers study the form and structure of insects—a subfield of entomology known as ...

Mar 5, 2026
Phys.org / Study finds 77% of US national parks are highly vulnerable to climate change

National parks in the United States represent a treasure trove of natural, historical, and recreational landscapes, but their health is at risk. A comprehensive new study on the climate-change vulnerability of national parks, ...

Mar 3, 2026
Phys.org / Pond-dwelling microalga exposes a parallel track for RNA processing

Biology textbooks explain that cells follow a universal rule when processing gene transcripts to make proteins. Non-coding snippets of RNA are bracketed by a guanine-thymine (GT) nucleotide sequence on one end and an adenine-guanine ...

Mar 5, 2026
Phys.org / NASA now officially has no plans to use new mobile launcher for Artemis

When NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced the revamped approach to the Artemis moon program, it was unclear whether the new mobile launcher that has been constructed over the last two years at Kennedy Space Center ...

Mar 5, 2026
Medical Xpress / Light-sensing genes may connect three childhood tumor types

Research uncovering the origin of pineoblastoma, a rare pediatric brain tumor, has also revealed a dependency across multiple brain tumor types that share a similar molecular program. Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research ...

Mar 5, 2026
Phys.org / ESA's Mars orbiters watch solar superstorm hit the red planet

What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching spacecraft and a supercharged upper atmosphere.

Mar 5, 2026
Medical Xpress / One in 20 babies experiences physical abuse, global review finds

About one in 20 infants worldwide is subjected to physical abuse by a caregiver in their first two years of life. That's the central finding of a new study co-led by researchers from the UBC faculty of medicine and Memorial ...

Mar 5, 2026