Researchers analyzed 20 years of three-hourly wave data at 400 sites worldwide, split evenly between coastlines with and without mangroves, drawing on Global Mangrove Watch records and 2025 satellite imagery. The sites were chosen to represent mangroves' full latitudinal range while excluding locations shielded by dunes, reefs close enough to block wave models, or heavily developed shorelines. Wave conditions came from the EU Copernicus Marine Service's Global Ocean Waves Reanalysis dataset.
Researchers at NYU Langone used mouse models with genetically modified nematode-specific macrophage populations to study how a prior type 2 immune response—triggered by parasitic infection—reprograms lung-resident macrophages. The team found these reprogrammed macrophages later helped mice tolerate a subsequent, unrelated viral infection with less lung damage, using genomic, microscopy, flow cytometry and functional assays in mice engineered to lack specific macrophage populations or the Arg1 gene.
Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering tracked meal-by-meal food intake for adult stem cell transplant patients from 2017 to 2022, recording what percentage of each dish patients actually ate. The team then analyzed how these dietary patterns interacted with antibiotic exposure and gut microbiome recovery, using neutrophil engraftment and survival data as clinical outcomes.
Researchers led by Zeng et al., publishing in Nature, report that tumours spreading to the dura—the brain's outer membrane—recruit bone-degrading osteoclast cells. These osteoclasts damage nearby meningeal lymphatic vessels, which normally drain fluid from around the brain, and weaken local immune defences against the tumour.
Researchers led by Lövestam and colleagues injected fibrils of human tau protein into mice and found that the mice's own tau proteins adopted the same misfolded structure as the injected material. The finding, published in Nature, provides direct structural evidence that tau can act as a template converting normal protein into a toxic form, similar to how infectious prion proteins behave.
Research reported in Nature indicates that consuming sugar alongside antibiotics intensifies the disruption antibiotics cause to gut microbial communities. The findings point to diet as a factor that can compound the harm antibiotics do to beneficial bacteria in the digestive system.
A June preprint by Samsung AI Center Warsaw researchers Neo Christopher Chung and Michał Brzozowski found that chatbots including Claude, Gemini and GPT repeatedly invent the same fictional 'expert' personas, such as Elena Vasquez and Marcus Chen, when asked to generate expert profiles. The researchers traced hundreds of these AI-fabricated identities to manuscripts on repositories like Zenodo and ResearchGate, some of which carry real DOIs.
Researchers led by Tseng and colleagues, publishing in Nature, describe a boron carbon nitride (BCN) material that efficiently transports positive charge carriers, or holes. This addresses a long-standing gap in atomically thin semiconductor research, where efficient electron-transporting 2D materials existed but comparable hole-transporting counterparts were lacking.
Researchers report that the erratic, looping flight of butterflies produces visual effects that make it difficult for predators—and humans—to accurately track and predict their movement. The findings suggest this unpredictable motion is not random but may function as a defensive strategy against being caught mid-flight.
In the CHORD clinical trial, 24 participants aged 10 months to 16 years with a rare genetic hearing loss (DFNB9, caused by OTOF gene mutations) received a single infusion of the gene therapy Otarmeni into one or both ears. About 80% of participants showed improved hearing within 24 weeks, and case reports describe children regaining the ability to respond to sound and music after treatment.
The OpenAI Foundation, the nonprofit created in October 2025 during OpenAI's governance restructuring, has begun distributing part of its committed $25 billion in philanthropic funding. Recent grants include a $125 million package for open health and life-sciences data, covering $40 million for a University of North Carolina cancer vaccine project, $500,000 to repurpose data from failed biotech firms, and $15 million for research on drug transport across biological membranes, following an earlier $100 million commitment to Alzheimer's disease research. Jacob Trefethen, the foundation's head of life sciences, says this is an early phase of a broader, faster-moving funding effort.
Scientists studying the 'exposome'—the sum of environmental and lifestyle exposures a person accumulates—are developing tools to measure chemical, pollutant, dietary and infectious exposures alongside genetic data. The concept, coined by epidemiologist Christopher Wild in 2005, aims to quantify environmental risk factors with the same precision now possible for genomics. Researchers note that environmental exposures account for an estimated 70-90% of chronic disease risk.
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