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Medical Xpress / Single gene injection reverses inherited heart disease in mice and patient-grown tissue

Melbourne researchers have made a gene therapy breakthrough that could restore heart function in children with genetic heart disease, sparing them the need for transplants.

Aug 19, 2026
Medical Xpress / Music evokes story-like brain activity beyond auditory processing, brain imaging shows

In a paper appearing in Nature Communications, Princeton University researchers show how music produces distinct patterns in the regions of the brain associated with imagination and meaning, similar to those prompted by spoken ...

Aug 18, 2026
Phys.org / A weakening Atlantic Ocean current system could accelerate Earth's warming

A current system in the Atlantic Ocean that shapes regional climates and distributes ocean nutrients also serves as a control knob to help regulate temperatures across the planet, new research has found.

Aug 17, 2026
Phys.org / Metastable 3D printing 'ink' enables a closed-loop material cycle

Polymers used for light-based 3D printing are very stable because of their chemical structure, but they are typically hard to recycle. A research team led by Professor Dr. Eva Blasco, a researcher at the Institute for Molecular ...

Aug 19, 2026
Phys.org / New photonic crystal method improves single-photon sources for quantum networks

Quantum communication promises many advantages over today's standard technologies, including absolutely secure transmission of large amounts of data. However, it requires single photons—and generating them is very difficult. ...

Aug 18, 2026
Tech Xplore / Flash of light creates high-performance materials without heating the surface beneath

A flash of light lasting a fraction of a millisecond could help create better materials for solar energy. Researchers used ultrafast heating at rates of up to 10 million degrees Celsius per second to rearrange the atoms inside ...

Aug 18, 2026
Medical Xpress / Prostate cancer hijacks amino acid metabolism to signal hormone therapy resistance

Prostate tumors can rewire amino acid metabolism to override the normal brakes on cholesterol production, a process that may fuel hormone therapy resistance, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

Aug 20, 2026
Medical Xpress / Navigating the future: New tool for early signs of dementia

Cognitive decline can affect more than memory. It can also make it harder to navigate familiar places and find your way—including finding your way home from the supermarket.

Aug 21, 2026
Phys.org / A new mathematical tool to uncover 'who eats whom' in nature

Understanding "who eats whom" is the key to keeping our oceans alive—and our dinner plates full. However, this invisible network that makes up the food chain can unravel with the pull of just one thread. Overfish one species, ...

Aug 18, 2026
Medical Xpress / Chemotherapy-free treatment shows promise for some patients with metastatic breast cancer

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that a chemotherapy-free combination of four targeted therapies showed encouraging results in patients with HR-positive, HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer, ...

Aug 20, 2026
Phys.org / Researchers build 'digital twin' to model Manhattan air quality

Cornell engineers have developed a "digital twin" framework that creates a real-time virtual representation of urban carbon dioxide conditions, providing a tool that could help city planners monitor emissions, identify hotspots ...

Aug 20, 2026
Medical Xpress / Does your immune system learn like AI?

Could AI hold the key to answering questions that have stumped doctors and scientists for decades? A recent study at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) borrows concepts from machine learning to address an age-old riddle ...

Aug 19, 2026