A research team at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), working with the Hospital Sant Pau in Barcelona, has shown that theatre can improve the emotional well-being of people with Parkinson's disease. The study, "Efficacy of a theatre-based intervention in patients with Parkinson's disease" (2025), which has been published in open access in the journal Arts & Health, has provided the first evaluation of the combined effects of active and passive participation in theatre activities on these patients' emotional and cognitive health and quality of life. The researchers were also supported by the Teatre Lliure.

Gene therapy can improve hearing in children and adults with congenital deafness or severe hearing impairment, a new study involving researchers at Karolinska Institutet reports. Hearing improved in all ten patients, and the treatment was well-tolerated. The study was conducted in collaboration with hospitals and universities in China and is published in the journal Nature Medicine.

Researchers at ETH have used nuclear magnetic resonance to find out what other atoms are bound to the platinum atoms in a single-atom catalyst and where they are spatially located.

The precise knowledge of the atomic environments can help produce single-atom catalysts that are more uniform, and thus more effective.

This also enables very efficient and resource-saving reaction accelerators for sustainable chemicals.