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Arthritis Drug Restores Up to 100% of Hair in Patients With Severe Alopecia
NEWS | 15 September 2026
Around 2 percent of the world's population has to live with the severe hair loss and associated psychological toll that comes with alopecia areata, a condition caused by the immune system mistakenly attacking hair follicles. The hair follicles aren't permanently damaged, and the condition can be reversed, but the difficulty lies in stopping the immune response. Due to some similarities with existing alopecia areata medications, the anti-inflammation and arthritis drug upadacitinib has been put to the test as a potential treatment in a new study reporting on two Phase 3 clinical trials run in tandem. "In these two parallel phase 3 replicate randomized clinical trials, upadacitinib demonstrated a positive benefit-risk profile in adults and adolescents with severe alopecia areata," write the researchers in their published paper. Related: Fully Functional Hair Follicles Have Been Grown in The Lab For The First Time"The rapidity and depth of response have the potential to position upadacitinib as a valuable treatment option for patients with severe alopecia areata," write the researchers.

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CERN Detects Quantum Entanglement in Particles Born From The Higgs Boson
NEWS | 15 September 2026
It's not the first time quantum entanglement has been detected at the LHC – but this time, it's somewhere new. In 2024, the ATLAS Collaboration reported the first observation of quantum entanglement between pairs of top quarks produced at the LHC. A Higgs boson has a mass of around 125 GeV, while a Z boson weighs in at around 91 GeV. Unlike ordinary particles, virtual particles can't be directly observed; some physicists regard them primarily as mathematical ingredients used to describe interactions. He cautioned that the result doesn't settle that philosophical question, but said it could "shed a little light on whether virtual particles are particles or not."

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It Turns Out Chihuahuas Are Actually Part Coyote
NEWS | 15 September 2026
A new investigation into the ancestry of dog genetics, reported in Nature Communications, could go some way to explaining why. Chihuahuas, it turns out, share some genes with wild coyotes (Canis latrans). The study didn't reveal exactly when coyote genes might've entered the Chihuahua lineage, but research has suggested it occurred before Columbus arrived to the Americas. frameborder="0″ allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen>Unlike some other lap dogs, Chihuahuas are known for their independent, proud, and self-assured natures, despite their size. We'd like to think it could be the wild coyote within, though it is difficult to say for sure.

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Scientists Find First Adult T. Rex Trackway – And The Footprints Are Human-Sized
NEWS | 15 September 2026
These revelations include evidence that T. rex spawned multitudinous, cat-like babies, and an evolutionary explanation for its much-mocked, chicken-winged physique. "With a trackway, we can actually follow an animal as it moved across the landscape. So this finding is especially enlightening as the first and only known footpath made by an adult T. rex, recreated impressively in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Altogether, given the age, locality, and physical features of the tracks, the researchers say that "an adult Tyrannosaurus rex is the most likely trackmaker". Fortunately, three of the footprints will be saved and soon airlifted to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

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Scientists Identify The 'Doomsday' Seeds That Could Last The Longest
NEWS | 15 September 2026
Scientists have now investigated which of our tropical crops last the longest in our seed banks – and it seems that mung bean stew may be a staple on the future doomsday menu. In recent germination tests, the frozen seeds of mung beans (Vigna radiata) and common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) remained highly viable for decades. Even after 45 years in storage, at least 90 percent of the mung bean seeds in one batch could still germinate with the potential to produce a plant. These included a type of cereal called sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), the common bean, the mung bean, the soybean (Glycine max), the pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan), and the adzuki bean (Vigna angularis). In fact, some seed batches of mung beans, common beans, and soy beans retained high viability for decades.

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Lifelong Deafness Could Rewire a Person's Peripheral Vision
NEWS | 15 September 2026
For example, a variety of scientific literature has described brain changes and improved visual capacities in D/deaf persons. "Without sound cues, deaf people use vision as an 'early warning system' for peripheral events," the researchers say. The findings suggest that LGN activity is relatively biased toward peripheral vision in D/deaf persons compared with hearing persons, suggesting that visual reorganization in the brain starts at least as early as the LGN. The neural bias for peripheral vision persisted as the researchers looked downstream into the brain's visual processing systems to explore visual field representations in V1. D/deaf persons displayed neural preferences for peripheral vision, while hearing persons showed neural preferences for more central vision.

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Scientists Discovered a Bizarre 'Devil Flower' That Doesn't Need Sunlight
NEWS | 15 September 2026
(Neeranuch Taosiri/CC BY 4.0)Scientists gave the newly discovered species a name worthy of its appearance: Thismia daemona, or the "devil flower". The location surprised the scientists because Thismia species are generally associated with constantly humid rainforests at lower elevations. They also analyzed five regions of its nuclear and mitochondrial DNA, comparing the results with those of other Thismia species. But the importance of the discovery extends beyond adding another unusual name to the list of known plants. The discovery also raises the number of known Thismia species in Thailand from 15 to 16.

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Scientists Found a Material That Gets Better at Conducting Electricity as It Shrinks
NEWS | 15 September 2026
Incredibly, a state-of-the-art chip can contain over 100 kilometers (62 miles) in copper interconnects. As copper interconnects continue to shrink, they choke electron flow as these fundamental particles are increasingly scattered by the surfaces of the wires. A famous image of the first 3D copper interconnect in microprocessors, unveiled in 1997. Mater., 2026)As they get smaller, their electrical resistivity decreases because quantum mechanics creates highly conductive surface paths with reduced electron scattering. Altogether, the "radio-frequency and on-chip testing unequivocally demonstrate CoSi to be an interconnect material with highly scalable potential," they add.

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The 10,000-Steps Myth Is Dead. Here's What Science Says Works Instead
NEWS | 15 September 2026
The researchers compared both daily steps and stepping intensity against mortality risk. The biggest takeaway is that people don't have to hit 10,000 steps a day to see benefits from walking. "The important message is that every step counts, and how you take those steps can also matter." What the researchers found is that a variety of step counts and intensities were associated with lower mortality risk. frameborder="0″ allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen>For analysis, the participants were sorted into four groups: those taking under 5,000 steps a day, then 5,000–7,500 steps a day, 7,500–10,000 steps a day, and people taking more than 10,000 steps a day.

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Scientists Find a Hidden Rule Guiding Evolution
NEWS | 15 September 2026
The basics of evolution are pretty straightforward to grasp: organisms better equipped to survive and reproduce tend to have the advantage over others. Biologists sometimes think about this as a three-dimensional fitness 'landscape', where the peaks are the species in the best shape. "However, organisms sometimes face multiple evolutionary trajectories that all yield the same level of fitness. (Fachareldeen & Brenner, PNAS, 2026)In biology, this arrival of multiple organisms at the same fitness peaks is called degeneracy. There are some significant implications for evolutionary theory here, the researchers point out.

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'Toasted Skin Syndrome': Bizarre Rash Was Thought to Be a Liver Injury, But It Was Caused by a Common Habit
NEWS | 15 September 2026
It turns out the trauma, detailed in BMJ Case Reports, was a case of erythema ab igne (aka 'toasted skin syndrome'), which occurs when people experience prolonged heat exposure. Toasted skin syndrome can be caused by anything that emits heat to skin over long periods, including hot water bottles, heating blankets, heaters, and fireplaces. While his doctors eventually deduced that, his case shows why it's easy for practitioners to miss signs of toasted skin syndrome. Researchers have warned that toasted skin syndrome in children and adolescents is likely to increase in future because of the "greater and sometimes inappropriate use of technological devices". While symptoms seem to clear up readily once the source of heat exposure is removed, chronic cases of toasted skin syndrome may become malignant, with emerging evidence linking the condition to the development of various skin cancers.

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Scientists Find a Subtle Clue to ADHD Hidden in The Eyes
NEWS | 15 September 2026
Pupil responses varied more across separate trials, yet fluctuated less within each individual trial in the unmedicated ADHD group. Trial-to-trial variability was higher in the unmedicated ADHD group, while within-trial variability was lower. (Yadav, S et al., Scientific Reports, 2026)Among the unmedicated children with ADHD, those with greater pupil variability also tended to answer less accurately. "We would not interpret this as evidence that medication 'normalized' attention," Yadav said. Greater pupil variability was linked to lower accuracy in the unmedicated ADHD group, but that relationship was not significantly stronger than the equivalent pattern in controls.

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Researchers Discover an Untapped Green Hydrogen 'Goldmine'
NEWS | 15 September 2026
Fluid access to magnetite through fractures and permeable rock is key to hydrogen formation, the researchers found. Energy, 2026)The results of their study, published in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, are promising – and give scientists a better understanding of the geological factors that control how much hydrogen magnetite can generate. "Australia could be sitting on a massive, untapped energy reserve - and the potential is enormous," says chemical engineer Alireza Keshavarz, from Edith Cowan University. Not only does that suggest fractured, porous rocks with more surface area might be the best places to look for hydrogen gas, it also offers clues about how we might enhance hydrogen generation. The research has been published in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.