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Medical Xpress / Language models identify psychiatric symptoms nearly as accurately as early-career clinicians

A study led by the Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH) provides initial evidence that large language models can identify complex psychopathological findings in transcripts of psychiatric interviews with accuracy comparable ...

Aug 5, 2026
Medical Xpress / Tumor-secreted protein makes lung vessels leakier, promoting metastasis

A protein secreted by common cancer types makes blood vessels leakier to allow metastatic tumors to form in the lungs, according to a study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer ...

Aug 5, 2026
Medical Xpress / Study finds many Colorado jails still lack public opioid treatment policies despite state mandate

Four years after Colorado passed a law requiring county jails to provide medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) and to publish their policies for MOUD care, researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz have found ...

Aug 7, 2026
Medical Xpress / New model maps where HIV is concentrated and the disease is more advanced

A new biostatistical modeling approach has the potential to support health decisions by pinpointing where HIV is concentrated and where people living with HIV are showing signs of severe immune suppression or delayed treatment. ...

Aug 5, 2026
Phys.org / Cell-inspired synthetic fibers reveal a reversible route to self-protecting smart materials

Researchers at the University of Bayreuth, together with colleagues from Freie Universität Berlin and the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, have developed a synthetic fiber system inspired by the cellular cytoskeleton ...

Aug 5, 2026
Medical Xpress / AI companions may worsen loneliness for vulnerable users

AI companions are becoming increasingly popular, with millions of users forming deep connections with persona-based chatbots and simulated AI partners. But if you're considering leaning on an AI companion for emotional support, ...

Aug 5, 2026
Phys.org / Nano-optics: New mechanism for channeling light waves discovered in natural hyperbolic materials

Researchers at the 4th Physics Institute of the University of Stuttgart and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Milan have demonstrated a new mechanism for directing light in a naturally hyperbolic van der Waals ...

Aug 4, 2026
Phys.org / Life speaks one universal language to activate genes: It speaks many more to silence them

The signals that cells use to switch genes on have remained almost unchanged across 2 billion years of evolution, but the ones used to switch genes off vary dramatically from one branch of life to another, according to a ...

Aug 3, 2026
Phys.org / Decades-old theory for how insect societies evolve challenged

For more than 60 years, evolutionary biologists have debated whether a unique genetic system found in ants, bees and wasps helps explain one of nature's most remarkable innovations: eusociality, a form of social organization ...

Aug 4, 2026
Medical Xpress / Has the definition of autism become too broad to be useful?

The definition of autism may have become so broad that it risks confusion and even misdiagnosis, according to a new editorial by UCL professor Dame Uta Frith, whose pioneering research in the 1960s and '70s laid the foundations ...

Aug 3, 2026
Phys.org / New research finds that singlehood can be a valuable opportunity for personal growth

Being single can be a unique and meaningful opportunity for personal growth, according to new research in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Aug 6, 2026
Phys.org / Avalanche cracks may appear globally supersonic while remaining locally subsonic

Can a crack be supersonic? Can the fracture that triggers an avalanche propagate faster than the limiting velocity predicted by classical fracture mechanics? The question remains the subject of debate within the scientific ...

Aug 5, 2026