Scientists have discovered a previously unidentified species of mosquito along the coast of Kenya and Tanzania with potential implications for malaria surveillance and control. This newly discovered mosquito species, provisionally named the Pwani molecular form, belongs to the Anopheles gambiae complex, which is a group that includes some of the world's most important malaria vectors.

A team of scientists including UCL researchers has tested four anti-amyloid Alzheimer's therapeutics to find out how the drugs bind to toxic amyloid beta protein to tackle the disease. Using new, highly sensitive methods, the researchers detected and visualised how amyloid beta protein - a plaque that builds up in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease - binds to lecanemab, donanemab, gantenerumab and aducanumab.

Adolescents who sleep for longer - and from an earlier bedtime - than their peers tend to have improved brain function and perform better at cognitive tests, researchers from the UK and China have shown. Even though the differences in the amount of sleep that each group got was relatively small, we could still see differences in brain structure and activity and in how well they did at tasks Barbara Sahakian But the study of adolescents in the US also showed that even those with better sleeping habits were not reaching the amount of sleep recommended for their age group.

Although autism can be diagnosed very early, it remains difficult to plot a child's developmental trajectory. Now a team of UdeM-affiliated researchers is working to remedy this, via AI and genomics. Will a child who's evaluated for autism later develop an intellectual disability? Can this be accurately predicted? Early-childhood experts in Quebec say they've have come up with a way to better find out.

Chemists at the University of Münster have developed a method for the hydroamidation of double bonds Nitrogen atoms are essential building blocks in many important chemical structures. Nitrogen-containing organic molecules are indispensable for various applications in such fields as medicine, agriculture and materials science.

A new study led by the University of Zurich has shown that evidence of genetic susceptibility to schizophrenia can be found in the retina. This finding could help improve the early detection of the disorder. The retina is part of the central nervous system and therefore a direct extension of the brain.

Study into combining microbubbles and radioactive microspheres for more accuracy and effectiveness  Primary liver tumors are among the most common cancers worldwide. Unfortunately, only 10-20% of patients can undergo potentially curative treatments like surgery or transplantation. For most patients, the options are palliative treatments, such as radioembolization (RE).

English GPs in areas of socioeconomic deprivation endure increased job pressures related to managing complex patients, insufficient resources, and difficulty in finding locum cover, an analysis by University of Manchester researchers has shown. The researchers suggest that policymakers should increase funding so that deprivation is taken into account as a factor in general practice funding to address income disparities between GPs in more deprived and less deprived areas.

A research group at the University of Stuttgart has succeeded for the first time in manipulating light by interacting with a metal surface in such a way that it exhibits completely new properties. The researchers have now published their findings in the journal "Nature Physics". DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02873-1 "With our results, we are adding another chapter to the still young field of skyrmion research," explains Harald Giessen , head of the 4th Physics Institute at the University of Stuttgart, in whose working group the success was achieved.

In a preclinical study led by McGill researchers, two drugs targeting "zombie cells" have been shown to treat the underlying cause of chronic low back pain. The condition affects millions of people worldwide. Current treatments manage symptoms through painkillers or surgery, without addressing the root cause.

Local authorities must do more to prepare communities in British Columbia for the dangers of extreme heat, according to a new research paper from Simon Fraser University. Four years after the infamous 2021 heat dome, which killed more than 600 people in B.C. alone, the ground-breaking study found significant differences in how municipalities within the Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley regional districts are preparing for heat events.

UCalgary researchers investigate transcranial magnetic stimulation to treat aphasia caused by stroke Lucy Mulloor woke up one morning and realized something was terribly wrong. The 45-year-old single-mom could hear her two daughters in the kitchen but couldn't call out to them. She'd lost the ability to talk and to move the right side of her body.

Researchers have developed a flexible auditory brainstem implant (ABI) that closely conforms to the curved surface of the brainstem. The technology has been successfully demonstrated high-resolution "prosthetic hearing" in macaques. Over the last couple of decades, many people have regained hearing functionality with the most successful neurotech device to date: the cochlear implant.

Social media networks have proved to be fertile ground for the rise of populism, providing a mostly unfettered space for polarising discourse and spread of misinformation. Around the globe, the rise of populism has made political resilience and stability increasingly challenging. Help may come from an unexpected partner: for the first time, researchers in finance and economics are using a combination of models and theories from finance, robotics, economics and natural sciences to quantitatively study the data linked to the increase and pervasiveness of populism in social media.

News from A new study published in PNAS, led by the United States Department of Agriculture and involving several researchers from the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and Leipzig University, investigated how the relationship between mean annual precipitation (MAP) and grassland biomass changes when one or more nutrients are added.

A new study published in the journal PNAS examines how the relationship between mean annual precipitation and grassland biomass changes with the addition of one or more nutrients. Researchers from the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and Leipzig University were also involved in the global analysis, which was led by the US Department of Agriculture.

An international team led by Fabian Garmroudi has succeeded in producing new, efficient thermoelectric materials that could compete with state-of-the-art materials, offering greater stability and lower cost. Thermoelectric materials enable the direct conversion of heat into electrical energy. This makes them particularly attractive for the emerging "Internet of Things", for example for the autonomous energy supply of microsensors and other tiny electronic components.

A new study from our Department of Psychology has uncovered evidence that the body's internal regulation of eating may be influenced by an individual's socio-economic background. Published in the journal Food Quality and Preference , the research highlights how physiological signals, particularly those transmitted via the vagus nerve, interact with socio-economic factors to shape dietary behaviour.

Metformin, a widely used and affordable diabetes drug, could prevent a form of acute myeloid leukaemia in people at high risk of the disease, a study in mice has suggested. Further research in clinical trials will be needed to confirm this works for patients. We've done the extensive research all the way from cell-based studies to human data, so we're now at the point where we have a made a strong case for moving ahead with clinical trials Brian Huntly Around 3,100 people are diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) each year in the UK.

A recent study led by the Medical University of Vienna shows that the haematocrit value, i.e. the proportion of red blood cells in blood volume, has a direct influence on blood sugar levels. The researchers were able to show that an increase in the number of red blood cells directly causes a decrease in blood sugar.