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Hydrogen jelly showed no significant sleep benefit over placebo after eight weeks, though exploratory analyses suggest gut bacteria may help explain differences in individual responses. @Hiroshima_Univ @SciReports medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…

Gut microbiome may help explain why sleep improvement varies after hydrogen supplementation

A Hiroshima University–led clinical trial found that hydrogen supplementation did not significantly improve sleep quality compared with a placebo; however, exploratory analyses suggest that differe...

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Denisovans may have had low, relatively flat skulls, thick skull bones and prominent brow ridges, according to rare fossils from northern China that preserve a distinctive protein clue. @nature phys.org/news/2026-10-rare-f…

Rare fossils reveal what ancient Denisovans may have looked like

Whenever anything is written about the Denisovans, the word "mysterious" is almost guaranteed to appear. That is because we just don't know a lot about this extinct human group that may have lived in...

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An implantable chip distinguishes cognitive and emotional states from human brain recordings using under 200 microwatts—a fraction of the power many implantable neural-interface systems require. @epfl_en @IEEEXplore techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Low-power neural chip reads brain signals to identify cognitive and emotional states

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a therapeutic technique that delivers electrical pulses to specific areas of the brain via an implant to modulate neural activity. It is already widely used for...

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Some cancer cells evade chemotherapy in a nondividing, “zombie-like” state, growing to almost 10 times normal size and attracting immune cells that can help tumors recover. @tcddublin @ScienceAdvances medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…

How cancers evade chemotherapy by entering a 'zombie-like state'

Scientists at Trinity College Dublin have made a breakthrough in understanding how cancer cells can evade the cell-killing effects of chemotherapy and enter a "zombie-like state," called premature...

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Ancient viral DNA silences a chimpanzee gene that remains active in humans—a contrast seen in laboratory models of early brain development. @ScienceAdvances phys.org/news/2026-10-ancien…

An ancient virus in chimpanzee DNA switches off a gene that is active in humans

Humans and chimpanzees share almost all their genes. Despite this, our brains have developed in different ways. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now shown that a viral pandemic dating...

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An electronic implant precisely regulated blood sugar in diabetic mice during a six-week test, but it has not been tested in humans. @ETH_en @sciencemagazine medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…

Tackling diabetes with an electronic implant: How a tiny catalyst lowers blood sugar

Type 2 diabetes is becoming increasingly common worldwide. Unlike type 1 diabetes, it is often linked to obesity, a sedentary lifestyle and excess energy intake over many years. Although insulin...

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Black holes spinning near their maximum possible rate could split in two, theoretical calculations suggest—but the fragments would need to avoid falling back together. @UniSouthDenmark @PhysRevD @arxiv phys.org/news/2026-10-black-…

Black holes spinning near maximum rate could split in two, calculations suggest

Two black holes can collide and merge into one. But could the opposite happen: could a single black hole split into two smaller ones? That question is explored in a new theoretical study: "When Black...

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A video deepfake detector used 143 times less computing power than existing models, achieving near-perfect accuracy on a test library of 1,000 online videos containing deepfakes. techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

AI deepfakes are getting more realistic. Scientists developed a better way to spot them

Hundreds of the nation's computer scientists gathered for a conference in Denver last fall, and Tuan Tran had a big test for them: Could they tell the difference between the real Brad Pitt and an...

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Invika halted cancer progression in 16 of 27 patients given the optimal dose in an early trial that included cancers resistant to standard immunotherapy. @NIHforHealth @NatureMedicine medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…

A precision T-cell therapy stalls treatment-resistant cancers in clinical trial

Early results of the first clinical trial to evaluate the drug invikafusp alfa (invika) in humans indicate that the treatment may be capable of managing cancers that have rebuffed most other interv...

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The 2026 El Niño is on track to be bigger than the powerful 1997–98 event, with warm, elevated Pacific waters reaching South America—but winter impacts remain uncertain. @NASA phys.org/news/2026-10-el-nio…

El Niño then and now

El Niño is part of a natural climate pattern that occurs roughly every two to seven years, bringing warmer-than-normal water to parts of the equatorial Pacific. The most recent very strong El Niño...

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Psilocybin triggered new brain connections in mice without head twitching, a proxy for hallucinogenic activity—separating structural rewiring from that behavioral signal. @NatureNeuro medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…

How psilocybin reshapes brain circuits

A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, reveals how psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in "magic mushrooms," reshapes neural connections in the brain.

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A DNA-programmed material builds its own motors and moves without intact living cells, with genetic instructions setting whether its flow persists, stops or repeatedly speeds up and slows down. @NatureMaterials phys.org/news/2026-10-dna-ce…

DNA programs a cell-free material to build its own motors and move

Researchers have created a material that manufactures the proteins responsible for cell movement, without needing intact living cells. By embedding cell-free gene expression into a thin sheet of...

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An anode-free lithium coin cell retained 90% capacity after 200 cycles with a silver-based additive that helps stabilize its internal interfaces. @hkust @NatureComms techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

No lithium metal anode to start? Silver-based additive helps stabilize next-generation batteries

A research team at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed a dynamic integrated interface engineering strategy that enhances the energy density and stability of...

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Children eating more ultraprocessed foods showed stronger brain responses to appetizing food images—responses linked to greater body fat one year later, though cause and effect remain unproven. @KeckSchool_USC @jamanetworkopen medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…

Children who eat more ultraprocessed foods show stronger brain responses to appetizing foods

Children who eat more ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) show stronger responses in the brain's reward network when viewing images of appetizing foods—and these brain responses are linked to increases in...

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Changing conversation partners barely softened political divisions in simulated AI networks, while prompts to be receptive to opposing views cut the polarization score by 11.8%. @NatureComms phys.org/news/2026-10-ai-age…

AI agents can form political camps—and changing their conversation partners does little to soften...

Give AI agents political positions, ask them to defend their views and persuade one another, and let them decide which contacts to keep. This recent experiment, published in Nature Communications,...

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Expanding a quantum cat state's environment from one qubit to eight progressively suppressed interference revivals during the experiment's observation window. @physrevlett @arxiv phys.org/news/2026-10-quantu…

Experiment shows when quantum 'cat' states stop bouncing back

Quantum systems can occupy superpositions, quantum states that combine different possibilities. For instance, a microwave field can be prepared in a superposition of an empty state and a state that...

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The world’s first touchscreen built into a garment displays video on a flexible sleeve, with light output and touch response nearly unchanged after 50 detergent washes. @NUSingapore @nature techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Researchers thread the world's first touchscreen into a garment

Researchers at the National University of Singapore's College of Design and Engineering (CDE) have developed a fiber that functions as pixels and senses touch at the same time, integrating 54 of them...

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Blocking a protein in unstable immune cells reversed immunotherapy-linked inflammation in mice, targeting a fragility also seen in patients with severe side effects. @CellCellPress medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…

Study identifies key drivers of microbiome-linked cancer immunotherapy side effect

Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh uncovered the unstable immune cells that can cause up to 40% of immunotherapy patients to experience serious side effects and showed that diet and microbi...

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Pheidole soldier ants can have smaller antennae than workers despite much larger heads and bodies—a break in the usual link between body size and body-part size. @PNASNews phys.org/news/2026-10-ants-b…

Ants break a basic rule of biology to help them adapt to new environments

A new study led by researchers in the Eco-Evo-Devo lab at the University of Ottawa finds that ants can decouple antenna size from both head and body size as they develop into different social castes,...

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Global warming may have halted a glacial period already underway: an Arctic ice cap began expanding about 2,000 years ago, then started shrinking in the 1960s. @columbiaclimate @sciencemagazine phys.org/news/2026-10-global…

Global warming may have halted an emerging ice age, study suggests

Two thousand years ago, the Arctic remnants of a once-vast ice sheet started to grow again. It was the beginning of a new glacial period, more conversationally known as the next ice age—but by the...

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