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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 7-Jul-2025 15:10 ET (7-Jul-2025 19:10 GMT/UTC)

University of Ottawa-led research team forges compelling new insights into dynamics of the brain’s serotonin system

University of Ottawa
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine-led study published in Nature Neuroscience sheds new light on these big questions, illuminating a general principle of neural processing in a mysterious region of the midbrain that is the very origin of our central serotonin (5-HT) system, a key part of the nervous system involved in a remarkable range of cognitive and behavioral functions.

Journal: Nature Neuroscience

HKU physicists uncover hidden order in the quantum world through deconfined quantum critical points

The University of Hong Kong
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A recent study, led by Professor Zi Yang MENG and co-authored by his PhD student Menghan SONG of HKU Department of Physics, in collaboration with researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Yale University, University of California, Santa Barbara, Ruhr-University Bochum and TU Dresden, has unravelled some of the secrets concealed within the entangled web of quantum systems.

Journal: Science Advances

Metformin for knee osteoarthritis in patients with overweight or obesity

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: The results of this randomized clinical trial support use of metformin for treatment of symptomatic knee osteoarthritis in people with overweight or obesity. Because of the modest sample size, confirmation in a larger clinical trial is warranted.

Journal: JAMA

Nanophotonic platform boosts efficiency of nonlinear-optical quantum teleportation

University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have long recognized that quantum communication systems would transmit quantum information more faithfully and be impervious to certain forms of error if nonlinear optical processes were used. However, past efforts at incorporating such processes could not operate with the extremely low light levels required for quantum communication.

Journal: Physical Review Letters

New method improves survival analysis power in clinical and epidemiological studies

Texas A&M University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Innovative statistical method helps determine ideal threshold times in restricted mean survival time analyses

Journal: American Journal of Epidemiology

Robotic system zeroes in on objects most relevant for helping humans

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reports and Proceedings

MIT roboticists developed a way to cut through data noise and help robots focus on the features in a scene that are most relevant for assisting humans. The system could be used in smart manufacturing and warehouse settings where robots would work alongside and assist humans.

Funder: King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) through the Center for Complex Engineering Systems at MIT and KACST
Meeting: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Study of ‘spatial synchrony’ using long-term data exposes ecological trends and could boost conservation, farming

University of Kansas
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study from the University of Kansas in Ecology Letters reveals the study of spatial synchrony over a long enough timescale leads to better testing of ideas, improved statistical results and new conceptual realms for understanding ecology, conserving species and farming more profitably.

Journal: Ecology Letters

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