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Medical Xpress / Decades of data reveal who's most at risk of snakebites and how to prevent them

Snakebites aren't random but are predictably correlated with a variety of environmental and socioeconomic factors, according to a study published Aug. 6, 2026, in the journal PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases by Jaideep Menon ...

Aug 6, 2026
Phys.org / Experimental drug turns cancer's favorite fuel against it

Cancer cells have a voracious appetite for sugar—using it to fuel their rapid growth. This is why many scientists have tried to develop drugs that block cancer cells' metabolism by cutting off their sugar supply.

Aug 5, 2026
Medical Xpress / Grid cells turn the brain's searchlight from broad scanning to target-focused search

For 20 years, the grid cell was the closest thing neuroscience had to a fixed point. May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser found them in the rat brain in 2005, work that nine years later would carry them to the king's table in ...

Aug 6, 2026
Medical Xpress / ChatGPT can generate personality tests and predict people's responses before they take them

In iScience, scientists outline how they developed a method for generating personality assessment questionnaires with ChatGPT from any source text. To test the method, they applied it to both the DSM-5 and, as a deliberately ...

Aug 6, 2026
Phys.org / New method could sharpen diamond quantum sensors for tracking activity in single cells

A diamond-based quantum sensor inserted into a living cell can provide previously unseen levels of detail about how life works and how diseases form. "Think of it as an EKG for a single cell—a way to capture everything happening ...

Aug 4, 2026
Phys.org / Pushing the boundaries of ultracold neutral plasmas

Using a combination of laser cooling techniques and strong magnetic fields, researchers at Colorado State University have for the first time created an ultracold neutral plasma with electrons cooled to temperatures measured ...

Aug 4, 2026
Phys.org / Mythical mountain god inspires name for China's first freshwater cave snail

A team of scientists has announced the discovery of Erhaia dijiang, a species of eyeless freshwater cave snail.

Aug 4, 2026
Phys.org / Your next handbag could start with mushrooms

The search for leather alternatives has led researchers somewhere unexpected: fungi. Although traditional leather is durable, producing it requires animal agriculture, which carries negative environmental impacts. Meanwhile, ...

Aug 6, 2026
Medical Xpress / AI-enabled measurements of 'local brain aging' offer detailed insights on dementia and more

USC researchers have developed an approach that uses artificial intelligence to generate detailed maps that highlight differences in how distinct parts of the brain age. The new model also sheds light on how patterns of brain ...

Aug 3, 2026
Medical Xpress / Common neuroscience sensors sometimes get their signals crossed

Cells in the brain communicate in different ways. The classical mode involves tight connections between individual cells that signal only to each other. But over the last decade, new tools have allowed scientists to focus ...

Aug 5, 2026
Medical Xpress / Brain activity reveals the melodies that people imagine

In a study led by Jii Kwon and Chun Kee Chung of Seoul National University, researchers explored whether they could recreate melodies from the brain activity of people who imagined how songs continue after listening to a ...

Aug 3, 2026
Medical Xpress / Trial focuses on duration of therapeutic hypothermia for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests

Each year, more than 250,000 people in the United States experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. Approximately 90% of patients do not survive.

Aug 6, 2026