Stimulating two brain areas, nudging them to collectively fire in the same way, increased a person’s ability to behave altruistically, according to a study published February 10^th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Jie Hu from East China Normal University in China and colleagues from University of Zurich in Switzerland.

University of Calgary researchers have designed a study to investigate whether high doses of vitamin B3 or niacin could rejuvenate compromised immune cells to kill glioblastoma tumour cells. The clinical trial was designed to determine the maximum dose and potential benefit of controlled-release niacin that could be added to the recommended chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments.

A new scientific study has confirmed the accidental capture of a juvenile white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) within the Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), providing rare evidence of the species' persistent presence in the Mediterranean. The findings, published in Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, contextualize this 2023 encounter within 160 years of regional records and highlight the urgent need for conservation of this iconic species.

Longevity science may be entering a conceptual turning point. Instead of searching for a single “anti-aging” intervention, researchers are increasingly asking a different question: What if aging is not a defect, but a progressive loss of coordination between biological systems?

Current Genomics is now accepting submissions. This journal publishes high-impact research across genome science, including systems biology, computational genomics, epigenetics, and precision medicine. Plant genomics is also covered.

Hypertension in the lungs is a relatively rare but very serious disease that is usually fatal within two years if left untreated. Current therapies can slow down its progression, but no cure exists. Research teams from Bochum and Bonn are shedding light on the underlying mechanisms of the disease, and have discovered a previously unrecognized factor in its development: the protein beta arrestin 1. The teams have shown that this protein plays an important role in transporting signaling molecules involved in regulating blood vessel diameter. The researchers report their findings in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) from February 9, 2026.

This 307-million-year-old fossil was one of the earliest known land-dwelling vertebrates that evolved the ability to eat plants.