**New Drug Candidate Helps Overcome Cancer Treatment Resistance**

By Molly Chiu, Baylor College of Medicine - Published on 12 August 2026

An experimental drug called CS18 weakened several cancer survival mechanisms and helped overcome treatment resistance in laboratory and animal studies. Cancer treatments can work at first, only for surviving tumor cells to find another route around the attack. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have developed an experimental drug called CS18 that is designed to [...]

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**Childhood Trauma May Leave a Lasting “Scar” Inside Brain Cells**

By Washington University in St. Louis - Published on 12 August 2026

A mouse study suggests that changes in DNA packaging can create a molecular memory of trauma that makes the brain more vulnerable to future stress. Severe stress in childhood can leave effects that emerge years later, increasing vulnerability to anxiety, depression, and other mood disorders when new difficulties arise in adulthood. Researchers at Washington University [...]

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**Popular Erectile Dysfunction Drug Linked to Vision-Threatening Eye Disease**

By BMJ Group - Published on 12 August 2026

People who take tadalafil (Cialis) long-term may need regular eye health monitoring. Tadalafil (Cialis), a medication widely known for treating erectile dysfunction, is also prescribed for urinary urgency and frequency associated with an enlarged prostate. A large comparative study published online in the British Journal of Ophthalmology has found that men receiving the drug for [...]

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**A Human-Specific Gene May Help Explain Our Extraordinary Brainpower**

By The Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University - Published on 11 August 2026

The new findings could help explain what made the human brain unique during evolution. A mouse’s brain immune cells mature in about three weeks. Their human counterparts take four to eight years, an unusually slow timetable that may help explain how the human brain develops its distinctive cognitive abilities. Microglia are the brain’s most abundant [...]

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**Scientists Find a Smarter Way To Turn Used Coffee Grounds Into Clean Fuel**

By Universitat Rovira i Virgili - Published on 11 August 2026

Every cup of coffee leaves behind a hidden reservoir of energy. Damp coffee grounds discarded after brewing still contain valuable oils that can be converted into biodiesel, while their carbohydrates and other compounds could be used to produce renewable fuels, bioplastics, and industrial chemicals. Researchers at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) have now identified a [...]

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**A Rare Look Inside the Dodo’s Skull Challenges Centuries of Myths**

By University of Copenhagen - Published on 11 August 2026

CT scans reveal new clues to how the dodo sensed its environment and challenge its reputation as an unintelligent bird. For centuries, one of the world’s only two complete dodo skulls has been preserved in Copenhagen. Now, that rare specimen is helping researchers investigate a question fossils rarely answer directly: what was it like for [...]

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**Did Cellular Life Begin Twice? New Study Points to Two Independent Origins**

By Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf - Published on 11 August 2026

Early metabolism may have begun as a mix of metal and enzyme catalysis before bacteria and archaea independently evolved into free-living cells. Four billion years ago, the chemistry that eventually became life may have been unfolding around hydrothermal vents, where naturally occurring metals helped drive reactions before cells possessed the full machinery they use today. [...]

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**85% of Atypical Alzheimer’s Patients May Not Qualify for Treatment**

By American Academy of Neurology - Published on 11 August 2026

Current treatment criteria may exclude many people with atypical Alzheimer’s disease even when they remain in relatively early stages. For some people with Alzheimer’s disease, memory loss is not the first warning sign. Problems with vision, language, planning, or movement can appear earlier, and new research suggests that these less typical symptoms may prevent many [...]

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**Sitting Up Straight Could Actually Help You Make Better Decisions**

By McGill University - Published on 11 August 2026

New research suggests that even a small shift in posture may influence both mood and the ability to take calculated risks. In a McGill University experiment involving nearly 200 participants, people encouraged to sit upright reported stronger feelings of pride and performed better in a game that balanced risk against reward. Those who leaned over [...]

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**A Cannabis-Based Drug Dramatically Reduced PTSD Nightmares**

By Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin - Published on 11 August 2026

A new approach to treating severe sleep disorders. For many people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), going to sleep can mean reliving a traumatic experience with frightening intensity. These recurring nightmares can cause severe sleep loss and even create fear of going to bed, while existing medications often provide limited relief. Researchers at Charité – [...]

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**Never-Before-Seen Vortices Are Swirling Across the Sun**

By Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research - Published on 11 August 2026

The world’s largest solar telescope and advanced computer simulations revealed vortices that are reshaping our understanding of the Sun. Across the Sun’s visible surface, hot plasma is constantly rising, cooling, and sinking. At the edges of these churning regions, researchers have now resolved tiny swirling structures that may help explain how the Sun twists, stores, [...]

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**Something May Be Flowing Beneath Pluto’s Giant Heart-Shaped Glacier**

By Southwest Research Institute - Published on 11 August 2026

Researchers used New Horizons images to identify evidence that liquid nitrogen may have flowed from beneath Pluto’s famous heart-shaped glacier. Dark markings across part of Pluto’s enormous heart-shaped glacier may record something unexpected beneath its frozen surface: liquid nitrogen moving upward and briefly flowing across the ice. Using observations from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, researchers [...]

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