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New observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are shedding light on an extremely rare and “forbidden” exoplanet known as TOI-5205 b. Scientists have discovered that the giant planet’s atmosphere contains fewer heavy elements than its host star. This surprising result could change the way researchers understand the early stages of giant planet formation. The survey results are astronomical journalcomes from an international team led by Caleb Kanyas of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, with assistance from Carnegie Science’s Shubham Kanodia and others. giant planet orbiting a small star TOI-5205 b is about the same size as Jupiter, but…

Newly identified fossil remains in southwestern China are changing scientists’ understanding of how complex animal life first developed on Earth. The discovery shows that many major animal groups already existed before the Cambrian period began. The research was led by a team from Oxford University’s Natural History Museum and School of Earth Sciences, Yunnan University in China, and was published in the journal April 2. science. Scientists have long believed that a rapid increase in diverse and complex animals, known as the Cambrian Explosion, began about 535 million years ago. This period marked a dramatic change from simple organisms to…

Controlled blast studies found that standard unisex armor reduced peak pressures for both male and female mannequins, but larger air gaps around the female torso increased impact exposure, raising new questions about how well current armor fits and protects different body types. Research: Gender-based effects of impact energy exposure in combatants. Image credit: Svitlana Hulko / Shutterstock In a recent study published in the journal scientific reportresearchers investigated the performance of standard body armor under blast conditions on male and female combatants. Armor reduced both peak pressures, but significant differences emerged between the sexes. The female body shape created a…

The World Health Organization (WHO) today called on people around the world to renew their commitment to working together and supporting science as a twin force for better health, building on the World Health Day 2026 theme: “Together for Health. Standing with Science.” The campaign commemorates the establishment of WHO on April 7, 1948, and the launch of a year-long public health campaign. Human health has changed significantly over the past century, primarily due to scientific advances and international cooperation. Global maternal mortality rates have fallen by more than 40% since 2000, and deaths among children under five have fallen…

Psychotherapy has always been a very human endeavor, where the patient speaks, the therapist listens and responds, and healing occurs through words. However, with the rapid rise of conversational artificial intelligence, especially large-scale language models (LLM), that paradigm is rapidly changing. A team of researchers at the University of Utah is working on this change, but the question isn’t: “Will robots replace therapists?” Rather, they consider more practical questions: what to automate and to what extent. “The history of new technologies like this is almost always about collaboration and how it supports doing the work that human experts can do,”…

Researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered a new blood-based biomarker that helps identify and characterize asymptomatic Lynch syndrome (LS) patients who are more likely to develop cancer based on early immune detection signatures. This allows clinicians to stratify patients based on their individual risk level. This study nature communicationsled by Eduardo Villar Sánchez, MD, Interim Chair of Clinical Cancer Prevention. These results advance our understanding of T cell responses in LS carriers and provide personalized insights for early cancer detection, monitoring, and therapeutic intervention in these populations. Providing a potential non-invasive blood test to…

Researchers at Oregon State University have developed a technique to simultaneously treat lung cancer and the severe muscle-wasting condition that often accompanies it. This study controlled release journalcontaining lipid nanoparticles that deliver therapeutic genetic material to lung tumors. Scientists led by Oleh Taraula and Yoon Tae Goo from the OSU College of Pharmacy showed in a mouse model that a type of nanocarrier loaded with follistatin messenger RNA can accumulate within tumors. Once there, the mRNA prompts the cell to make follistatin protein. Follistatin protein plays an important role in both tumor suppression and promoting muscle tissue growth. Lipid nanoparticles…

Is consciousness simply a product of the brain, or could it be a deeper feature of reality itself? This question is at the heart of a presentation by Christoph Koch, a leading figure in modern neuroscience, at the Vial Foundation’s 15th ‘Behind the Brain and Beyond’ Symposium, to be held in Porto from April 8th to 11th. Although materialism still dominates scientific thinking, Koch highlights important gaps in this perspective. Despite great advances in neuroscience, scientists still have not explained how subjective experience arises from physical processes in the brain. This unresolved problem is known as the “hard problem” of…

A new review suggests that the aftermath of a heart attack may rely in part on signals from the gut and reveals how microbial metabolites influence inflammation, scarring and recovery through epigenetic mechanisms. Research: Gut-heart dialogue: An epigenetic perspective on myocardial infarction. Image credit: Joyisjoyful / Shutterstock In a recent review published in a magazine npj biofilm and microbiomeOur group reviewed the evidence on how metabolites from the gut microbiota influence myocardial infarction (MI) through epigenetic mechanisms and identified potential therapeutic avenues. background Each year, millions of people experience myocardial infarction (commonly known as a heart attack), but recovery outcomes…

Scientists have long believed that the answer lies almost entirely in neurons, the brain’s main signaling cells. But new research challenges that idea and points to a more complex system involving other types of brain cells. Research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences April 6, 2026 Research shows that astrocytes, long considered supporting cells, may play a much more active role in regulating appetite than previously realized. Researchers from Universidad Concepción in Chile, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Maryland, have discovered a previously unknown signaling pathway in the hypothalamus, the brain region that controls…