September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, and the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology is highlighting the importance of clinical research in advancing better treatments and improving early detection to ultimately help prevent and cure prostate cancer.

Americans’ confidence in their own healthcare providers remains high, according to a longitudinal, nationally representative survey conducted by the Annenberg Public Policy Center from April 2021 to August 2026. In contrast, confidence in the CDC, FDA, and the NIH as sources of trustworthy public health information has declined significantly since the beginning of President Donald J. Trump’s second term and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s confirmation as Health and Human Services Secretary overseeing these agencies.

New recommendations show how aligning EU policies can scale up sponge restoration to reduce flood and drought risks, improve water quality, support biodiversity and build climate resilience.

Fridges, A/C systems, and datacenters consume enormous amounts of electricity and the cooling demand is constantly on the rise. A team of research from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Tsukuba in Japan is now presenting a new approach substantiated by a prototype where heat assumes the role formerly taken by an electric motor. Two ultra-thin shape-memory films interact to convert thermal energy into mechanical work in a first step and finally into measurable cold. Their work opens up new possibilities for the future use of waste heat and solar energy for solid-state cooling. The results have been published in Nature Energy. (DOI: 10.1038/s41560-026-02122-6)

Moral distress is the suffering healthcare professionals experience when they cannot act according to what they believe is right because of external constraints. Despite decades of study, how clinicians recognize what is ethically important has received little attention. Now, researchers from Japan propose a philosophical framework that offers a new account of moral distress, and proposes that moral sensitivity is a cultivated capacity to perceive ethical reasons for action. Their work suggests clinicians with greater moral sensitivity may paradoxically be more vulnerable to moral distress.