Scientists build first self-illuminating biosensor

Illustration of the self-illuminating biosensor: A metasurface of gold nanowires drives quantum light emission and concentrates the resulting light waves to detect biomolecules. Credit: 2025 Ella Maru Studio/BIOS EPFL CC…

Digital protocol links brain connectivity changes to improved mood and lower inflammation

Association between brain plasticity, peripheral inflammation, and psychological state. Credit: npj Digital Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41746-025-01765-1 Research shows RMPY-008 delivers a structured digital protocol that combines evidence-based psychological interventions with…

AI in health care needs patient-centered regulation to avoid discrimination, say experts

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new commentary published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine warns that current risk-based regulatory approaches to artificial intelligence (AI) in health care…

How Brain Cells Coordinate to Make Complex Decisions

Summary: Every decision begins subtly, as the brain weighs options long before action. Researchers have now shown that, despite individual differences in neuron activity, a shared underlying structure guides the…

Grip Strength Reveals Brain Clues Behind Early Psychosis

Summary: Psychosis may start not with hallucinations, but with subtle motor changes like reduced grip strength. A new study reveals that lower grip strength in people with early psychosis is…

The mystery of Mercury’s missing meteorites, and how we may have finally found some

Mercury seen by Nasa’s Messenger spacecraft on the left. On the right, there’s an approximation of Mercury’s true colour as might be seen by the human eye. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins…

A preservative removed from childhood vaccines 20 years ago is still causing controversy today − a drug safety expert explains

An expert committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccines is meeting for the first time since Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly replaced the…

Control of spin qubits at near absolute zero provides path forward for scalable quantum computing

Mattel and OpenAI have partnered up. Here’s why parents should be concerned about AI in toys

Credit: Photos Hobby, Unsplash Mattel may seem like an unchanging, old-school brand. Most of us are familiar with it—be it through Barbie, Fisher-Price, Thomas & Friends, Uno, Masters of the…

New hybrid quantum–classical computing approach used to study chemical systems