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More than a decade after it was found, an antibody called CR9114 is still the only one known to block both influenza A and influenza B. Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign say…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Emcitate, a once-daily liquid form of the drug tiratricol, on Sept. 28, 2026, the first therapy the agency has cleared for the rare inherited disease…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved tavapadon, a once-daily tablet for adults with Parkinson's disease, AbbVie announced on Sept. 28, 2026. The company sells the drug as JUVMO and…

Poke a lab worm on its front end and it does something that looks almost decisive: it stops, reverses, and swims away from the touch. For a nematode barely a millimetre long, that backward lurch is…

In mice carrying the CASQ2 R33Q mutation, an enzyme called calpain breaks down triadin, one of the proteins heart cells use to control their internal calcium. That loss comes first, before the cell…

Physicists have watched a string of force snap into new charge pairs, moment by moment and site by site. Arinjoy De, Christopher Monroe and colleagues report that the pairs formed at the string's two…

Mitochondria keep a small genome of their own, separate from the DNA in the cell's nucleus, and it accumulates mutations as an animal ages. Some version of that fact has sat inside the standard…

Researchers modeled the shapes of two odor-detecting proteins from the antennae of a moth whose mating chemistry nobody had studied, predicted the molecule those proteins pick up, and then confirmed…

Researchers at the University of Sydney coded 472 Instagram posts carrying the hashtag #womenshealth and found that 324 made an explicit health claim while 34 referred to scientific evidence. Brooke…

Physicists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln report that hafnia, the hafnium oxide already deposited as a thin insulating layer inside ordinary computer chips, is antiferroelectric when it is…

A plant's roots do their work in the dark, and almost everything known about how a plant notices being eaten was learned from the parts that do not. Bite a leaf, and the undamaged leaves hear about…

Archaeologists working at Göbeklitepe in southeastern Türkiye report in the journal PLOS ONE that they have excavated the first two undisturbed graves found at the site. The burials, they say, could…