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Review finds eyelid tumors that spread often resembled harmless growths

This human systematic review combined 73 published case reports and case series involving 95 people with biopsy-confirmed cancer spread to the eyelid. Breast cancer was the most frequent original cancer, and about two-thirds of documented preoperative impressions were benign diagnoses. The findings describe reported patterns, but they do not show how often eyelid lesions are metastatic in the general population.

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Climate & Environment

Ordinary photos can help measure how severely corals bleach

A study of two coral species found that ordinary digital photographs can provide a low-cost proxy for bleaching severity in controlled heat-stress tests. A simple comparison with a white reference patch predicted symbiont density and chlorophyll better than a standard PAM fluorometry measure in the experiment.

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Climate & Environment

Clean cooking could prevent infant deaths and cut disease burden in Africa

A study of 102 developing countries found that greater access to clean cooking fuels was associated with better health and nutrition, with larger gains in urban areas. In scenarios for sub-Saharan Africa, universal urban access could avert up to 377,000 infant deaths and save more than 11 million disability-adjusted life years.

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Health & Medicine

High evidenceReview

Review finds a possible link between gut bacteria changes and nerve problems

This systematic review examined human studies on gut microbiome changes and peripheral neuropathy. All seven clinical studies reported an association, and six genetic analyses were described as supporting a possible relationship, but the evidence does not prove that gut changes cause nerve problems.

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Engineering & Technology

Pairing cameras with radar improves 3D object detection for self-driving cars

A system that combines camera images with radar data improved 3D object detection over single-sensor systems in tests on the nuScenes dataset. Its results were competitive with other leading methods that combine data from multiple sensors.

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AI & Computing

A laser-based AI navigator used little energy for signals faster than a billionth of a second

Researchers developed a light-based AI navigation architecture and tested part of it with a laser array. Simulations reported an 80% ± 8.3% success rate, while the tested laser activations used an estimated 0.78 nJ of energy and took 191.20 picoseconds under ideal parallel operation.

3 days ago·8 views

Biology

Brain stimulation separated seeing motion accurately from feeling confident

Brain stimulation separated motion-discrimination accuracy from confidence in perceptual decisions. Strengthening one visual pathway affected both measures, while disrupting a parietal brain region changed confidence-related performance without altering motion discrimination.

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Health & Medicine

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Review examines family therapy for eating disorders in autistic young people

This narrative review examined eating-disorder-focused family therapy for autistic children and young people. It reports that research has linked autism or high autistic traits with greater escalation to intensive care and less positive experiences of therapy, but the review does not show that therapy adaptations cause better outcomes.

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Biology

European consumers see conventional pesticides as riskier than gene-edited watermelons

A study of 1,218 consumers in Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom found that conventional pesticides were generally seen as riskier than gene-edited watermelons. Consumers also preferred zero-residue pesticides to organic-certified alternatives, although 22% to 27% rejected gene-edited watermelons.

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Climate & Environment

A coated titanium membrane rejected up to 96.9% of several antibiotics

A functionalized titanium disulfide membrane rejected up to 96.9% of several antibiotics in laboratory filtration tests. The membrane continued working through 30 filtration cycles and 15 days of continuous operation, although testing in real-world water and larger systems was not reported.

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Society & Economics

In nursing mice, brain cells link bone, fat, energy use and pain sensitivity

A study in nursing mice identified hypothalamic nerve cells that linked prolactin signaling with bone and fat metabolism, food demand and pain sensitivity. Reducing parts of this pathway lowered food demand and pain sensitivity, but the findings have not been established in humans.

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Climate & Environment

New software aims to make scoring data from a major child study clearer

Researchers have introduced ABCDscores, an open-source R package for calculating most non-proprietary summary scores in the ABCD Study’s tabulated data. The tool is designed to make scoring more transparent, reproducible and customizable, although the abstract does not provide independent measurements of its accuracy or time savings.

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Engineering & Technology

Aggressive driving linked to more than twice the battery fade in electric cars

Aggressive driving was associated with more than 2.5 times the model-predicted battery capacity fade of eco-driving in a study using real-world electric-vehicle data. The result comes from a physics-based causal-inference framework, not a direct long-term measurement of battery loss.

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Health & Medicine

Moderate evidenceReview

Review finds too little evidence that programs reduce alcohol use in people with cancer

This systematic review examined eight randomized trials involving 1,437 people living with cancer. Although some studies reported lower alcohol use in the intervention groups, the studies varied considerably and had important risk-of-bias concerns. The researchers concluded that there is insufficient evidence to establish that these programs reduce alcohol consumption.

3 days ago·42 views

Biology

Low evidenceHuman study

Study links closer adherence to the Eatwell Guide with lower body-fat markers

In a study of 156,764 UK Biobank participants, researchers examined associations between adherence to the UK Eatwell Guide and measures of body size and body fat. Higher adherence was associated with lower adiposity measures both at the initial assessment and, in the prospective analysis, with more favorable body mass index patterns over time. The study does not show that adherence caused these differences.

3 days ago·34 views