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They created a guidebook that covers everything from finding obstetrical care and early planning for childcare to the locations of lactation rooms at VUMC. The post Balancing babies with medical training is now easier thanks to VUMC duo’s hard work appeared first on VUMC News.... Read more »

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Their work focused on determining tissue and electrophysiological properties of the heart based on existing imaging approaches using quantum computing. The post Quantum computing team including Sunho Park wins competitive award appeared first on VUMC News.... Read more »

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Dan Hannon’s music industry accomplishments include over a billion streams, more than 4 million albums sold and multiple No. 1 albums and songs. Doing it all without his voice wasn’t an option. The post A renowned music producer needed a laryngectomy. His VUMC team helped him achieve the ‘Cadillac’ of... Read more »

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The 2025 QSRP Pursuit of Excellence Awards ceremony was combined with celebration of this year's honorees of Vanderbilt's Safety Superhero and Good Catch programs. The post Award program celebrates improvement work across VUMC appeared first on VUMC News.... Read more »

Participants successfully adapted more than 30 toys using simple modifications that allow children with limited mobility to operate them with an accessibility switch. The post Latest workshop to modify toys for children with physical disabilities held at Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center appeared first on VUMC News.... Read more »

In this area, treatment gaps affect up to 96% of patients, leaving millions without care. The project is funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the NIH.  The post New grant supports epilepsy study in Africa’s Sahel region appeared first on VUMC News.... Read more »

He is a translational scientist and antibody engineer who specializes in rapid therapeutic development for emerging infectious diseases. The post VUMC’s Robert Carnahan named a 2025 Master Innovator appeared first on VUMC News.... Read more »

NASA spacecraft across the inner solar system captured new views of Comet 3I/ATLAS—the third known interstellar object... Read more »

Humans and their ancestors have likely been kissing for a very long time... Read more »

Researchers tracked thousands of Americans for decades, finding no links between ingesting recommended levels of fluoride and lower cognitive skills... Read more »

Although these findings from JWST are yet to be confirmed, they mark the closest astronomers have come to locating the universe’s most ancient stars... Read more »

E-mails between Larry Summers and the now deceased financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from 2018 and 2019 have raised questions about a relationship Summers pursued with a student... Read more »

A tiny, misplaced label may have slowly loosened a critical wire on the ship that hit Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, eventually causing a catastrophic failure... Read more »

The sun’s current 11-year activity cycle has already peaked—but extreme outbursts from our star may still be in store... Read more »

Melatonin supplements have become a ubiquitous sleep aid, but research shows that benefits are modest, and the heart health effects of long-term use are unknown... Read more »

The lovable Star Wars droid is helping to shed light on why some bird species are better at mimicking sounds than others... Read more »

As holiday feasts and stress approach, an expert explains how to keep your gut healthy without skipping the stuffing.... Read more »

If you enjoyed Beth Gardiner’s feature about big oil’s bet on plastics, here are more books curated by Scientific American... Read more »

In recent weeks, dozens of infants in the U.S. have been infected with botulism in an outbreak linked to ByHeart powdered infant formula... Read more »

Play this crossword inspired by the December 2025 issue of Scientific American... Read more »

NASA spent years and billions of dollars collecting Martian samples to bring home. Now they might be stranded... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 19 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09717-1The electroluminescence emitted from lanthanide fluoride nanocrystals functionalized with ligands is shown to be tunable, providing a method for exciton control in insulating nanocrystal systems and offering a pathway for spectrally precise electroluminescent materials.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 19 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09769-3In Drosophila, changing the expression of a small set of cell-surface proteins in just one type of olfactory neuron rewires its connections almost entirely to a new postsynaptic partner neuron type, altering the fly’s odour response and courtship behaviour.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 19 November 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03651-yGenome-wide association studies and rare-variant burden tests are the two main tools for discovering links between genetic variants and traits. Comparisons of their results reveal that they systematically rank genes differently, and models have been developed to explain why. Ultimately, both methods are complementary,... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 19 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09733-1Zonal positioning in the liver determines whether the CTNNB1 oncogene can induce liver cancer.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 19 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09764-8A combination of genome-wide functional screening, imaging and chromatin profiling identifies a new class of highly prevalent genomic elements that help retain extrachromosomal DNA copies in dividing cells and persist across generations.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 19 November 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03776-0The rise in artificial-intelligence technologies is unprecedented, but some predict a stock-market crash that could have knock-on effects for funding and jobs.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 19 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09749-7By learning a semantics of gene function based on genomic context, the genomic language model Evo autocompletes DNA prompts to generate novel genes encoding protein and RNA molecules with defined activities, whose sequences generalize beyond those found in nature.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 19 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09712-6Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy shows that Weyl semimetal PtBi2 harbours nodes in its superconducting gap, implying unconventional i-wave pairing symmetry.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 19 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09732-2A new strategy that uses prime editing to convert an endogenous tRNA into a suppressor tRNA shows therapeutic potential for multiple genetic diseases that are caused by premature stop codons.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 19 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09772-8The kinase ZAK is activated at collided ribosomes to mediate the ribotoxic stress response.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 19 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09758-6All-optical mapping of neural connectivity in motor cortex links network topology to network dynamics and computation underlying naturalistic goal-directed behaviour.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 19 November 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03803-0Skin-permeable polymer shows promise at insulin delivery in animal experiments — plus, how the brain responds to unfamiliar languages.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 19 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09859-2Author Correction: AIM2 in regulatory T cells restrains autoimmune diseases... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 19 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09601-yTo turn on and obtain emission from lanthanide-doped insulating nanoparticles, an electrical excitation pathway coupling them to organic optical molecules to form nanohybrids is described, enabling tunable electroluminescence properties of LEDs fabricated from such materials.... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 46, November 2025. <br/>... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 46, November 2025. <br/>SignificanceThe earliest enzymes are thought to have formed through the assembly of macromolecules into disordered, secondary phases known as coacervates. While these phases are believed to have played a role in early catalysis, the underlying mechanisms ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 46, November 2025. <br/>SignificanceA key limitation to using geometric morphometrics is the lack of high-fidelity tools. The most powerful methods in geometric morphometrics require that the meshes are similar, but not all geometric data satisfy this requirement. The Euler ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 46, November 2025. <br/>SignificanceWe derive the Kinship Formula which yields the number of any kin from any structured population projection model. This formula should prove important across fields utilizing structured population dynamics. For example, it can assist ecologists ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 46, November 2025. <br/>Mutations in Argonaute proteins (AGOs) cause Argonaute syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD), yet the underlying molecular mechanism remains unclear. We determined cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structures of wild-type (WT) AGO1 and the ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 46, November 2025. <br/>SignificanceHard decision problems, in computational complexity theory known as NP-complete, are of universal importance. From a conceptual perspective, an efficient solution to one such complete problem is tantamount to solving any other in the wide ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 46, November 2025. <br/>SignificanceAutophagosomal components recycling (ACR) is a recently discovered recycling process responsible for the recycling of autophagosome outer membrane components from autolysosomes. The optimal function of this process is imperative for proper ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 46, November 2025. <br/>SignificanceCues predictive of target locations orient covert attention, improving perceptual performance. Studies have focused on attentional influences on neural activity, but how cues activate attention and how neuronal populations enable perceptual ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 46, November 2025. <br/>SignificanceThis study identifies an iron–sulfur (Fe/S) cluster in the 60S ribosomal assembly factor Mak16 as essential for maintaining complex stability with its interacting partner Rpf1, which is crucial for the maturation of 25S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 46, November 2025. <br/>SignificanceLike plant pathogens, different strains of the entomopathogenic fungusBeauveria bassianahave varied virulence against diverse insect hosts. The underlying mechanism involved in mediating parasite host preference remains unknown. We performed ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 46, November 2025. <br/>SignificanceAutosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is a common inherited kidney disorder and leads to kidney failure in most affected persons. No effective treatments exist. Characterized by cyst formation and kidney enlargement, ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 46, November 2025. <br/>SignificanceThe treatment of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) is persistently plagued by poor drug targeting and systemic adverse effects. While innovative nanotherapeutic approaches offer enhanced drug delivery through targeting and stimulus-responsive ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 46, November 2025. <br/>SignificanceThe formation of cilia depends on the assembly of axonemal microtubules, the core structure of the organelle. However, the mechanisms controlling this process remain poorly understood. Here, we show that aChlamydomonaskinase (CrMAK), ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 46, November 2025. <br/>SignificanceCytotoxic and mutagenic DNA-damaging agents are ubiquitous. Bulky DNA damage is removed genome-wide in bacteria by excision repair, and from transcribed strands (TS) by transcription-coupled repair (TCR), in which the Mfd protein targets ...... Read more »

The trust Michigan's local leaders have that the residents they serve can responsibly participate in the policymaking process has eroded to alarmingly low levels.... Read more »

Fifteen years ago, researchers led by John Mitani of the University of Michigan witnessed the Ngogo chimpanzees in Uganda kill its neighbors and overtake their territory. But the question remained why the Ngogo chimps were driven to expand their territory in the first place. That is, what evolutionary edge did... Read more »

Most poverty-fighting efforts focus on meeting basic material needs, such as food and shelter. But this overlooks the psychological and cultural factors that shape how people take action in their lives.... Read more »

New research found that restricting calories dramatically rewires proteins in rat skeletal muscle, causing molecular changes that boost insulin sensitivity—crucial for blood sugar control in older adults, say scientists at the University of Michigan and the University of Sydney.... Read more »

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ordinary enough to slip through the notice of selection.... Read more »

More than two decades ago, Joan Iverson Nassauer, professor of landscape architecture at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability, helped envision a new future for Corn Belt agriculture. And not just any future, but one that could be reasonably realized by 2025.... Read more »

The University of Michigan launched several new initiatives in fiscal year 2025 to spur interdisciplinary research.... Read more »

When University of Michigan professor Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks hears the phrase "return to work," he recognizes a paradox: In the post-pandemic era, business leaders seek to "return" to a place that never existed for a large group of people who joined the workforce in the past few years.... Read more »

In China's social media universe, celebrities are often assumed to set the tone for millions of adoring followers. But a new study led by the University of Michigan shows the dynamic works the other way around: When it comes to online nationalism, fans are the ones leading—and stars are following.... Read more »

Negotiators from nearly 200 countries have gathered in Belém, Brazil, for the annual international climate change conference—known this year as COP30—in an effort to advance global climate solutions. University of Michigan experts are available to comment.... Read more »

William Lopez, clinical assistant professor of health behavior and health equity at the University of Michigan, has dedicated years to studying the effects of immigration enforcement on communities throughout the United States.... Read more »

As the government shutdown throttles federal SNAP benefits for an estimated 1.4 million Michiganders, Lee Roosevelt, a clinical associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Nursing, said her midwifery patients will be among the hardest hit.... Read more »

When Bill Axinn's parents took him to Nepal in 1976 for their own work in agricultural and social development, he was "pretty upset to be missing seventh grade."... Read more »

Fifth and sixth grade students from Durand Middle School in Durand, Michigan, and The School at Marygrove in Detroit recently took to the lifelike streets of Mcity.... Read more »

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Raccoons that live near humans had shorter snouts than rural raccoons, a trait that tends to arise in the early stages of domestication.... Read more »

With 45 outbreaks of measles over the past year, the United States is at risk of endemic spread within months, experts told Live Science.... Read more »

Canada has lost its measles elimination status and the U.S. is likely to be next. These failures are the result of the anti-vaccination movement, bolstered by the appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — and it's a bellwether of the erosion of public health.... Read more »

This air purifier's air-cleaning performance gets top marks, but we think it lacks modern looks and fancy features.... Read more »

Doctors discovered a woman had "blood chimerism" after examining the chromosomes of cells from different parts of her body.... Read more »

Scientists traced kissing back to a primate ancestor that lived around 21 million years ago.... Read more »

In 2023, scientists detected the gravitational waves from a black hole collision that seemed impossible. New research finally explains how this "forbidden" black hole came to be, and what it can teach us about these extreme objects.... Read more »

Archaeologists in Kyrgyzstan have discovered the remains of a drowned medieval city that was once a Silk Road hotspot.... Read more »

New research shows that CTE may stem from DNA damage and inflammation set in motion by blows to the head.... Read more »

Save $100 on the Apple AirPods Pro 2 wireless earbuds at Walmart — but hurry, this early Black Friday deal will not last long.... Read more »

An amateur astronomer has accidentally uncovered a series of puzzling radio signals coming from SpaceX's government-operated "Starshield" network. The signals overlap with protected frequencies and could disrupt other nearby spacecraft, experts warn.... Read more »

Four medieval spearheads have been found in Lake Lednica in Poland. One may have belonged to a nobleman or prince.... Read more »

Developed at Caltech, a new robot is a humanoid that can launch an M4 drone, switching between different modes of motion, with wheels that can become rotors.... Read more »

An incredible new image shows the multi-tailed alien comet 3I/ATLAS shooting past a distant galaxy in the night sky. The stunning scene is a reminder of the object's perfectly natural interstellar origins, photographer Satoru Murata claims.... Read more »

Annual list compiled by Clarivate Analytics recognizes researchers whose publications rank in the top 1% of citations... Read more »

Research from Carey Business School shows an overall decline in employee well-being in the American workforce, with employees reporting the lowest well-being scores on record... Read more »

By using reinforcement learning, researchers train virtual agent to determine the best time to administer medication based on a variety of patient-specific factors... Read more »

The pediatric epilepsy team at Johns Hopkins has used the ketogenic diet to treat more than 1,500 children since 1994... Read more »

Egypt's national dish finds a new home in JHU's student center thanks to local restaurant owner Iman Moussa... Read more »

The gathering of administrators and faculty aims to build community and share best practices among peer institutions from across the country... Read more »

Hopkins researchers Maximilian Konig and Jordan Green talk with The Associated Press about their research to alter dysfunctional immune systems... Read more »

Professors Stephanie DeLuca, Paul McHugh, and Steven M. Teles were recognized for outstanding scholarly achievement, and McHugh was awarded the Robert J. Zimmer Medal for Intellectual Freedom... Read more »

The program, which offers community, mentorship, and summer stipends, has been renewed for another four years... Read more »

New tuition promise program will offer free tuition for students from more than 85% of American households and tuition plus living expenses for families earning up to $100,000... Read more »

On Veterans Day, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore returned to his alma mater to share his thoughts on service and leadership with Johns Hopkins University ROTC cadets... Read more »

Hundreds of founders, investors, and entrepreneurs gathered for the 10th D.C. Startup & Tech Week, which emphasized artificial intelligence, national security, and emerging tech... Read more »

More than 200 attend annual event, which featured remarks by Gen. David H. Berger, the 38th commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps... Read more »

A new 10,000-square-foot hub at Bayview Medical Center is helping the Johns Hopkins Human Aging Project bring together a variety of disciplines to test technology-driven solutions for aging's biggest challenges... Read more »

Astronomers have just found a black hole that shouldn’t exist. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted a lonely giant called QSO1 — a…... Read more »

In April 2029, the infamous asteroid Apophis, nicknamed the “God of Chaos,” will make a historic flyby of Earth. At over 1,100 feet wide, Apophis…... Read more »

Gamma-ray bursts are the brightest explosions in the universe. In just a few seconds, they release more energy than our Sun will emit in its…... Read more »

Scientists have discovered that even relatively small black holes can be surprisingly inefficient at swallowing matter. Using Japan’s XRISM X-ray observatory, astronomers studied the binary…... Read more »

Imagine looking up at the sky in the middle of the day—and seeing a brand-new star shining as bright as Venus. Astronomers now believe this…... Read more »

Dark matter remains one of the biggest mysteries in the universe. We know it’s out there, but we can’t see it. One of the leading…... Read more »

Did you know that some black holes in the early universe grew faster than physics should allow? Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have found…... Read more »

In February, scientists detected the most energetic neutrino ever observed — a so-called “ghost particle” with over 100 peta-electron-volts of energy. That’s far beyond anything…... Read more »

Twelve point nine billion years ago — less than a billion years after the Big Bang — some of the most massive galaxies in the…... Read more »

A large international survey of 858 electroconvulsive therapy recipients found that women are twice as likely as men to receive ECT and experience more adverse effects. Women reported higher rates of memory loss, greater feelings of coercion, and more harmful emotional outcomes, often describing the treatment as retraumatizing.... Read more »

Engineers have created VoxeLite, the first wearable haptic device capable of matching the sensitivity of the human fingertip. Built as a paper-thin, flexible bandage for the finger, it uses high-density electroadhesive “pixels of touch” to recreate fine textures and directional cues with lifelike accuracy.... Read more »

A randomized, placebo-controlled trial shows that cannabis with active THC reduces immediate alcohol cravings and lowers drinking levels in heavy-drinking young adults. After smoking THC, participants not only drank less, they waited longer before taking the first sip and reported lower urges to drink.... Read more »

A new study in mice shows that briefly anesthetizing the retina of the weaker eye can restore its neural influence in the adult visual cortex. The treatment activates a specific burst-firing mode in thalamic neurons, a developmental mechanism that reopens plasticity even after the usual critical period has closed.... Read more »

A new meta-analysis of six randomized controlled trials shows that lithium supplementation does not significantly slow cognitive decline in people with mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s disease. While preclinical evidence suggests lithium supports resilience against amyloid and tau pathology, these benefits failed to translate to clinical outcomes using traditional lithium... Read more »

Researchers have discovered how the brain keeps time for precise movements, revealing a neural “hourglass” mechanism between the motor cortex and striatum. The motor cortex sends timing signals that accumulate in the striatum until they reach a threshold that triggers action.... Read more »

New research shows that infants whose mothers had higher cortisol levels during late pregnancy experience significantly earlier eruption of primary teeth. Babies of mothers with the highest cortisol levels had, on average, four more teeth by six months than those of mothers with the lowest levels.... Read more »

New research shows that spontaneous eye blinks naturally sync to the beat of music, revealing a hidden form of auditory-motor synchronization that occurs even without conscious movement. In more than 100 participants listening to steady-tempo classical music, both blinks and brainwaves aligned with the rhythm, even when songs were played... Read more »

New research reveals that the loss of a single ion channel, TRPM1, is enough to produce persistent rhythmic oscillations in the retina, a feature observed in both congenital stationary night blindness and retinitis pigmentosa. By comparing Trpm1 and mGluR6 knockout mice, researchers identified a disrupted circuit between rod bipolar cells... Read more »

A new clinical trial shows that deep brain stimulation (DBS) improved symptoms in half of adults with treatment-resistant depression, with one-third reaching remission. Researchers found that theta-frequency brain activity in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) predicted how well each patient responded.... Read more »

A massive international genetic study has uncovered rare, high-effect variants in three specific genes—MAP1A, ANO8 and ANK2—that dramatically increase the likelihood of developing ADHD. These variants, though extremely uncommon, strongly affect genes expressed in dopaminergic and GABAergic neurons, influencing brain development from fetal life onward.... Read more »

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