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Medical Xpress / AI is already reaching people in distress, but mental health safeguards lag behind

As AI use gains traction in mental health care, Deakin University researchers have raised the alarm that there are currently no agreed-upon frameworks in place to regulate or guide its application.

Aug 14, 2026
Phys.org / More than a decade of observation in Seattle suburbs shows where sensitive bird species won't go

Nearly 30 years ago, a simple question sent University of Washington researchers into the Puget Sound lowlands to look for birds. With Seattle's population swelling and housing developments pushing into once-forested suburbs, ...

Aug 11, 2026
Dialog / A surprising pathway that lets the striatum talk directly to the auditory cortex

For decades, neuroscientists have thought about communication between the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia in a fairly linear way. The cortex sends information into the basal ganglia, where that information is processed ...

Aug 12, 2026
Phys.org / Bumblebees can learn to associate new smells with their queen

Bumblebees are able to learn to associate new odors with their colony's queen, instead of being preprogrammed to recognize the queen's pheromones from birth, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State. For ...

Aug 12, 2026
Medical Xpress / Exhaled breath may reveal SARS-CoV-2 through virus-catching sensor

Nian Sun, a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern, has spent years perfecting a device that he believes could change the way diseases are detected.

Aug 14, 2026
Medical Xpress / Platelet-targeting approach offers a new path to safer thrombosis protection

Glycoprotein VI, or GPVI for short, is a surface receptor found exclusively on platelets and their precursor cells, megakaryocytes in the bone marrow. GPVI is primarily responsible for binding collagen at the site of an injured ...

Aug 14, 2026
Phys.org / Can better civics education restore voter dissatisfaction over political corruption?

This summer, America celebrated the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, widely recognized as the formal founding of our nation and one of the early stages of establishing a democratic government.

Aug 11, 2026
Phys.org / Early farmers' larger grains may reflect rainfall, not genetic selection

A new archaeobotanical study by researchers from the University of Oxford and Kiel University (CAU) has revealed that increases in cereal grain size at the dawn of agriculture, more than 11,000 years ago, were initially driven ...

Aug 11, 2026
Medical Xpress / Computational framework identifies novel pathway for asthma inflammation

Researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, in collaboration with investigators at the University of Chicago, have developed a new computational framework that helps scientists identify genes that ...

Aug 11, 2026
Medical Xpress / Protein secreted by immune cells may help drive brain aging

Brain-resident immune cells that have reached an old-age state called "senescence" secrete a protein that causes dysfunction in other brain cells, according to a study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine. The discovery ...

Aug 11, 2026
Phys.org / Machine learning predicts forest soil fungal diversity from drone images

Combining drone data and machine learning can help cover more ground in monitoring forest soil health, University of Alberta research shows. The findings are published in the journal Forest Ecology and Management. Using both ...

Aug 10, 2026
Medical Xpress / EU to study potential vaccine for Lyme disease: Companies

EU officials have agreed to study an experimental vaccine against Lyme disease, the world's most common tick-borne illness, its developers said Friday.

Aug 14, 2026