An AI-powered model could help communities detect E. coli contamination risks in waterways before lab results arrive. By using rainfall, streamflow, turbidity and other environmental data, the system may support earlier beach warnings, reduce public health risks and limit unnecessary closures.

Researchers have developed a high-throughput method to identify gold nanoparticles capable of delivering therapies directly to the mitochondria, the energy centres inside cancer cells.

A study has revealed for the first time how the decline of insect pollinators undermines essential ecosystem services that support human nutrition and livelihoods.

A study has found that high blood pressure during pregnancy is linked to poorer cardiovascular health in offspring more than 20 years later. It also provides compelling evidence that improving health before and during pregnancy could help reduce heart disease risk in the next generation.

Cannabis and tobacco co-use may significantly increase the risk of psychosis in people already considered clinically high risk, according to a new multisite study in Nature Mental Health. The findings highlight a growing but understudied pattern of substance use and point to the need for closer screening and targeted prevention.

Targeted brain stimulation with low-intensity ultrasound could open a new non-invasive route for chronic pain treatment. Researchers found that transcranial ultrasound stimulation of a brain region involved in pain processing did not immediately reduce pain intensity, but appeared to alter pain perception and brain connectivity in the following hour.

Metrological traceability (traceability) links pH measurement values to national/international standards through an unbroken, documented chain of comparisons (including uncertainties), making results comparable worldwide. It is based on NMIs/primary standards, certified buffer solutions (CoA), and ISO-compliant calibration, documentation, training, and audits—central to quality assurance and compliance.

Early complex life may have been far less mobile than previously thought. The oldest known eukaryotes appear to have remained tied to oxygenated seafloors for hundreds of millions of years, reshaping ideas about where our earliest complex ancestors lived, how they used oxygen and when they acquired mitochondria.

Researchers have developed an AI-based platform that can map disease-related changes across the entire mouse body at cellular resolution. Using Mouse Mapper, the team identified widespread inflammation and previously unknown obesity-related damage to facial sensory nerves, and it found corresponding molecular signatures in human tissue.

A new mouse study suggests that epigenetic inheritance may defy Mendel’s laws more often than previously thought. Researchers found new examples of genomic imprinting and DNA methylation patterns passed down across generations, including changes not present in either parent.