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Posted on: 21 October 2025 This "UTPC" seemingly applies to all species and dictates their responses to temperature change. It essentially "shackles evolution" as no species seem to have broken free from the constraints it imposes on how temperature affects performance. All living things are affected by temperature, but the newly discovered UTPC unifies tens of thousands of seemingly different curves that explain how well "species work" at different temperatures.

According to a press release from the Lyon Observatory dated September 4, 2025, based on a scientific publication to which Elliot Lynch, researcher at CRAL (ENS de Lyon/CNRS/UCBL), contributed as part of an international team: "ALMA Reveals an Eccentricity Gradient in the Fomalhaut Debris Disk", published in The Astrophysical Journal on September 4, 2025.

In a remote cave in northern Greenland, a research team led by geologists Gina Moseley, Gabriella Koltai and Jonathan Baker from the University of Innsbruck has discovered traces of a significantly warmer Arctic. The cave deposits show that the region was free of permafrost millions of years ago and reacted sensitively to rising temperatures.

Bacterial pathogens becoming resistant to antibiotics is well known. But resistance is also emerging among parasites - including those that cause malaria. As existing medicines lose effectiveness, researchers from Swiss TPH and the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) and partners have developed a new drug candidate that can kill malaria parasites even when standard treatments fail.

An international research team led by the Medical University of Vienna has demonstrated for the first time that thyroid hormone plays a key role in the development and progression of prostate cancer. By blocking a specific thyroid hormone receptor, cancer growth was inhibited in both animal models and tumour cell cultures.

This receptor is involved in communication between the brain and liver cells Fatty liver disease, a condition that affects around 20% of adult Canadians, begins with a simple accumulation of fat in the liver. This condition may remain asymptomatic or, for unknown reasons, evolve into an inflammatory state that may lead to fibrosis, cirrhosis or liver cancer.

Last summer marked a milestone for the SOURCE project: the first Living Lab transitioned from design to full-scale realisation. At Ameland-Oost, a shoreface nourishment is being constructed that will not only strengthen the coast but also serve as a unique scientific test site for the coming years. The coastline at Ameland-Oost has been steadily eroding, with significant sand loss to the sea posing a long-term challenge to coastal safety.

According to a CNRS communication dated September 22, 2025, following a scientific publication in PLOS Computational Biology co-authored by Lucie Riglet, Christophe Godin, and Isabelle Fobis-Loisy, researchers at the RDP, ENS de Lyon, together with Catherine Quilliet and Karin John from LIPhy, Université Grenoble Alpes.

According to a CNRS communication dated September 22, 2025, based on a scientific publication in Current Biology co-authored by Yoan Coudert, CNRS researcher at the RDP, ENS de Lyon, together with Saioa Ricou-Dreneuc and Claudine Ah-Peng: "Architectural shift to epiphytism fuels exotic bryophyte invasiveness.

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered an important phenomenon beneath the Arctic sea ice that was previously thought impossible. This phenomenon could have implications for the food chain and the carbon budget in the cold north. The shrinking sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is, overall, a disaster.

What happens when electrons leave a solid material? This seemingly simple phenomenon has, until now, eluded accurate theoretical description. Now, researchers have found the missing piece of the puzzle. Imagine a frog sitting inside a box. The box has a large opening at a certain height. Can the frog escape? That depends on how much energy it has: if it can jump high enough, it could in principle make it out.

Pre-eclampsia is one of the most serious complications in pregnancy, affecting millions of women and newborns worldwide and potentially life-threatening. Despite intensive research, it has remained unclear what processes in the placenta lead to the disease. Now, a research team led by the Medical University of Vienna has discovered a previously unknown mechanism that plays a decisive role in the development of pre-eclampsia.

The United Nations (UN) warns that drought is emerging as the next 'pandemic,' putting millions at risk and undermining progress towards Zero Hunger by 2030. According to new research led by the School of Social and Environmental Sustainability, human responses to drought are inadvertently reinforcing the crisis, creating a dangerous feedback loop that accelerates resource depletion.

A research team from the University of Zurich and the University Children's Hospital Zurich has developed a new approach for treating children with malignant tumors of the nervous system. By combining an approved drug with a specialized diet, they were able to slow down tumor growth and stimulate cancer cells to mature into normal nerve cells.

Once a sperm has broken through to an egg cell in order to fertilise it, the two cells need to hold together tightly. This occurs via a type of protein binding that is among the strongest in biology - and it is also unique. An egg cell and a sperm need to hold together tightly in the Fallopian tube in order to fuse, resulting in the creation of a new organism.

Researchers have discovered that a droplet of liquid can bounce for several minutes - and perhaps indefinitely - over a vibrating solid surface. The seemingly simple observation has big implications for physics and chemistry. If you've ever added liquid to a hot frying pan, maybe you noticed how the droplets bubbled up and skittered across the sizzling surface, rather than immediately flattening and wetting.

The research conducted by biological psychologist Floris Huider provides important insights into the genetic and biological factors that contribute to depression. His findings show that this mental disorder, which affects millions of people worldwide, is about 35 percent heritable. This means that genetic differences between individuals play a significant role in their susceptibility to depressive symptoms.

Brain plasticity : The brains of canary females maintain the ability to sing throughout their lives, even though the birds do not usually sing, shining light on how neural circuits can stay dormant yet functional. Change in behavior : Researchers found that a brain region important for singing (the -HVC-) does not to physically grow for birds to produce songs.

Chemist David Liwara conducted research on PFAS in consumer products and the environment, focusing on the development of analytical standards to improve the monitoring of PFAS pollution.