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Medical Xpress / Digital twin reveals how eye cells lose their organization in leading cause of vision loss

National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers have developed a digital replica of crucial eye cells, providing a new tool for studying how the cells organize themselves when they are healthy and affected by diseases. The ...

Feb 11, 2026 in Biotechnology
Phys.org / Trump's EPA decides climate change doesn't endanger public health—the evidence says otherwise

The Trump administration took a major step in its efforts to unravel America's climate policies on Feb. 12, 2026, when it moved to rescind the 2009 endangerment finding—a formal determination that six greenhouse gases that ...

Feb 13, 2026 in Earth
Phys.org / Egalitarianism among hunter-gatherers? What a food-sharing experiment reveals about self-interest

Hunter-gatherers like the Hadza of Tanzania are famous for their egalitarianism. A resource redistribution experiment conducted with the Hadza suggests many tolerate inequality—as long as it benefits themselves. Published ...

Feb 10, 2026 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Software tool can detect hidden errors in complex tissue analyses

A new software tool, ovrlpy, improves quality control in spatial transcriptomics, a key technology in biomedical research. Developed by the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) in international collaboration, ovrlpy ...

Feb 10, 2026 in Biology
Phys.org / 'Increase' framing makes research results seem bigger and more important, experiments show

Scientific findings are in the news. They're cited on food packages and beverage labels. They are discussed in podcasts and argued over by politicians and pundits. And each finding sits within a specific frame. If researchers ...

Feb 10, 2026 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Planting tree belts on wet farmland comes with an overlooked trade-off

A research team has conducted a study to examine how shelterbelts influence bird species diversity and composition in an agricultural wetland landscape on the western coast of central Japan. They determined that shelterbelts, ...

Feb 10, 2026 in Biology
Phys.org / New dataset reveals how US law has grown more complex over the past century

A century ago, the section of U.S. federal law governing public health and welfare was relatively small and loosely connected to the rest of the legal system. Today, it is one of the largest and most interconnected parts ...

Feb 10, 2026 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Wearable trackers can detect depression relapse weeks before it returns, study finds

Could a smart watch act as an early-warning system for depression relapse? New research from McMaster University suggests that disruptions in a person's sleep and daily activity routine, as detected through a simple wrist-worn ...

Feb 11, 2026 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Gamma-synced brain stimulation can nudge people to behave less selfishly

Stimulating two brain areas, nudging them to collectively fire in the same way, increases a person's ability to behave altruistically, according to a study published in the PLOS Biology by Jie Hu from East China Normal University ...

Feb 10, 2026 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / Microbiomes interconnect on a planetary scale, new study finds

In a new study published in Cell, scientists in the Bork Group at EMBL Heidelberg reveal that microbes living in similar habitats are more alike than those simply inhabiting the same geographical region. By analyzing tens ...

Feb 9, 2026 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Early cognitive stimulation protects brain function in Alzheimer's disease, study suggests

A team from the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona (UBneuro) has discovered that early and sustained cognitive stimulation can help preserve brain connectivity and memory in Alzheimer's disease, even ...

Feb 10, 2026 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Shining new light on how cytokines manage immune response

Scientists in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and MIT have created a new family of tools that, for the first time, illuminates the missing half of how the immune system uses molecules called cytokines to ...

Feb 11, 2026 in Immunology