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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 10-Dec-2025 10:11 ET (10-Dec-2025 15:11 GMT/UTC)
Innovating epilepsy care: SFU study explores advanced brain imaging for drug-resistant epilepsy
Simon Fraser UniversityA Simon Fraser University-led clinical research study is evaluating how advanced brain imaging could improve epilepsy surgery in British Columbia.
Epilepsy affects more than 50,000 people in B.C., according to the BC Epilepsy Society. The first line of epilepsy treatment is anti-seizure medication, but it can be ineffective. In these cases, brain surgery may be the only viable treatment — but determining whether surgery is possible requires highly precise brain mapping.
A powerful brain imaging technology called magnetoencephalography (MEG) offers new hope to children and adults living with drug-resistant epilepsy.
“MEG can help map where the seizures are originating in the brain. It’s completely non-invasive and doesn’t require the patient to actually have a seizure during the test,” says Maggie Clarke, neuroscientist and director of the MEG program at the SFU ImageTech Lab.
Celestial mechanics: New analytical model reveals true cause of orbit bifurcations near Lagrange points
Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR), Tohoku UniversityAIMR researchers developed a unified analytical model that explains how complex orbits—halo, and quasi-halo—emerge near Lagrange points in the restricted three-body problem. By introducing a nonlinear coupling mechanism, their approach reveals that orbit bifurcations arise without requiring frequency resonance, advancing both space trajectory design and bifurcation theory.
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- Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics
Space-based nuclear detonation detection mission endures
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories- Funder
- National Nuclear Security Administration
Texas vineyards report high-quality wine grapes
Texas A&M AgriLife CommunicationsXu Zhang to develop environmental monitoring biosensors
Texas A&M AgriLife CommunicationsSylvester launches one of the nation’s first tumor boards dedicated to cancer pain
University of Miami Miller School of MedicineThe launch of a pioneering tumor board focused exclusively on cancer-related pain is a bold step toward improving quality of life for cancer patients at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. The board particularly focuses on bone metastases, a leading cause of cancer-related pain. It’s one of the first of its kind.
The University of New Mexico and The University of Arizona win joint $43.6 million NIH award to help turn clinical research into practical medicine
University of New Mexico Health Sciences CenterStudents turn research into award-winning ventures
University of Texas at ArlingtonDiscovery in the deep sea: Unique habitat at hydrothermal vents
Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR)19 September 2025 / Kiel. An international research team led by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel has discovered a globally unique system on the seabed off the coast of Papua New Guinea. During their expedition aboard the research vessel SONNE, they came across the “Karambusel” field, where hydrothermal vents and methane seeps occur immediately adjacent to one another. The discovery is significant not only for geology but also provides new insights into the development of deep-sea communities. The study describing the discovery is published today in the journal Scientific Reports.
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- Scientific Reports