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Handheld spy-detectors barely beat searching by eye in a University College London (UCL) trial, missing most hidden cameras and trackers unless the app could name and locate the device, not just sense it.
Doctors have long relied on an invasive marrow-sampling procedure to check whether a childhood cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma has advanced. A large international study finds a whole-body imaging scan already in use catches it just as reliably, except in one circumstance.
Splitting money alone, most people picked the fair option. Add a round of voting among 49 strangers and fairness became less about kindness, more about not letting the other person get ahead, a new study finds.
What the Study Found For more than 20 years, silicon carbide has carried a reputation it couldn’t quite live up to. Engineers talked about it
A statistical framework called PGS-TRI reads DNA from a child and both parents to separate inherited autism risk from the influence of the family environment. Tested on 18,383 families, it validated existing genetic risk scores and mapped exactly where they fail.
X(2370)’s strongest new clue is an absence: the particle vanishes when researchers isolate a decay route that a pseudoscalar flavor-singlet state should suppress.
A raft of native reeds anchored across an Australian wastewater lagoon began slashing greenhouse gases within months, well before it managed to strip out any extra nutrients from the water.
An old shelved compound called TOFA made obese mice burn about 18% more energy and shed fat while keeping muscle, working the opposite lever to Ozempic. It has never been tested in humans.
TOFA (5-tetradecyloxy-2-furoic acid) blocks fat production and is now at the center of a 2026 UC Berkeley obesity study. Here’s what it is and how it works.
In the hippocampus, the brain’s memory hub, a stalled process of creating new neurons may explain why depression distorts how people interpret everyday experiences, blurring past rejections into present moments.
A two-year Spanish study tracked 201 neuroscience papers and found that articles without a press release drew almost no media coverage, no matter how they performed on social media, revealing who really controls the flow of science news.
Beta-2-microglobulin and cystatin C, both already on standard lab menus, tracked future disability in adults over 85 across Japanese and Italian cohorts, pointing to kidney strain and inflammation years before independence slips.