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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared a multistate Cyclospora outbreak, traced to iceberg lettuce, over on Sept. 11, 2026, and put the final count at 12,883 illnesses in 21…
A blood test that can flag Alzheimer's disease before symptoms appear predicts how soon those symptoms arrive more sharply when it is read alongside a common gene result, a Columbia University-led…
Focused ultrasound aimed at the heart from outside the body raised the heart rate of mice without surgery and without a drug, a team at ShanghaiTech University in Shanghai reports in the journal…
A lump of fossilized dinosaur dung collected in eastern Montana in 2016 has turned out to be packed with feathers, and a University of Washington-led team reports that two of them have features…
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have measured the X-rays given off by uranium, neptunium and plutonium with less uncertainty than earlier measurements, using…
Researchers at Boston University and Harvard Medical School have mapped the mosquito brain circuit that responds to carbon dioxide and found the neurons detecting the gas connect mostly back to one…
Platinum chemotherapy given in childhood raised the number of mutations in children's healthy tissue to the levels normally seen in adults, a team at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the University of…
A medieval grave with plague DNA in it is easy to date and hard to place. Radiocarbon will usually say the person died somewhere inside a window of a century or more, which is precise enough for…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has told Biohaven to stop enrolling new patients in its late-stage trials of the epilepsy drug BHV-7000, according to a filing by the company. The hold applies…
Two companion papers published in Nature on Sept. 9, 2026, describe fossils, stone tools and animal bones from Bianfu Cave in Yunnan Province, southwestern China. The authors attribute the material…
A gene-editing tool that changes a single letter of DNA without cutting through the double helix altered every copy of the cholesterol gene PCSK9 in human embryos, a study published in Nature on…
Researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus have recorded the activity of nearly every cell in a week-old zebrafish larva at once, on a timescale of seconds. The work…