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Medical Xpress / Acupuncture can reduce migraine pain, and brain scans reveal who might benefit

Acupuncture may be an effective treatment for migraine without aura, a type of migraine that occurs without warning signs like flickering lights. A new study published in the journal JAMA Network Open showed that real acupuncture ...

Feb 13, 2026 in Neuroscience
Phys.org / New record of great white shark in Spain sparks a 160-year review

On April 20, 2023, a juvenile great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) measuring approximately 210 cm and weighing between 80 and 90 kg was incidentally caught by local fishermen off the coast of the eastern peninsula within ...

Feb 10, 2026 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Parents' multi-substance use tied to higher teen risk, study finds

"Like father, like son? Can parenting styles break the intergenerational pattern of alcohol and drug use?" A group of Brazilian researchers analyzed data on the behavior of 4,280 adolescents and their guardians based on this ...

Feb 16, 2026 in Addiction
Tech Xplore / Miniaturized radar chip developed for next-generation wireless networks

A miniaturized radar chip, developed by researchers at Science Tokyo, advances Integrated Sensing and Communication for Beyond 5G and 6G systems. Measuring just 0.24 mm2 and consuming only 9.8 mW, the compact, low-power device ...

Feb 16, 2026 in Hardware
Medical Xpress / 'Hidden' costs of social care after a hip fracture exceed £1.25 billion a year in the UK

Hip fracture is the most common serious injury in older adults, affecting more than 80,000 people in the U.K. every year. The loss of mobility, function, and independence after a hip fracture means that many people need additional ...

Feb 16, 2026 in Surgery
Medical Xpress / How bacteria may promote breast cancer

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have discovered how certain pathogenic bacteria in gut and breast tissue can promote breast cancer development and progression by hijacking a key metabolic enzyme known ...

Feb 16, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Single DMT dose treats stress-induced depression more effectively than Prozac in mice

Psychedelics are psychoactive substances that trigger unusual mental states, also referred to as "trips," altering the perceptions, thoughts, and emotions of those taking them and typically inducing hallucinations. Over the ...

Feb 11, 2026 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Optimizing CAR T-cell therapy to tackle solid tumors

In 2024, Professor Sebastian Kobold's research group at LMU University Hospital had already shown that the metabolite prostaglandin E2 can block T cells—the killer cells of the immune system—in the vicinity of a tumor, ...

Feb 16, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / Electronic friction can be tuned and switched off

Researchers in China have isolated the effects of electronic friction, showing for the first time how the subtle drag force it imparts at sliding interfaces can be controlled. They demonstrate that it can be tuned by applying ...

Feb 11, 2026 in Nanotechnology
Phys.org / How a tiny shrimp could hold the clue to better armor

Modern armor systems do not do a good enough job of protecting humans from blast-induced neurotrauma (brain and eye damage). To improve them, we may have to look to nature. In particular, a tiny shrimp that is able to protect ...

Feb 11, 2026 in Biology
Phys.org / NOvA maps neutrino oscillations over 500 miles with 10 years of data

Neutrinos are very small, neutral subatomic particles that rarely interact with ordinary matter and are thus sometimes referred to as ghost particles. There are three known types (i.e., flavors) of neutrinos, dubbed muon, ...

Feb 11, 2026 in Physics
Medical Xpress / Using AI to guide AI: Q&A with professor of cardiovascular medicine

Since arriving at Yale School of Medicine in 2019 as an internal medicine resident, Evangelos Oikonomou, MD, DPhil—now an assistant professor of medicine (cardiovascular medicine)—has focused his research on developing ...

Feb 16, 2026 in Cardiology