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Blood filtering could help treat preeclampsia, pilot study suggests
NEWS | 28 April 2026
A new study suggests blood filtering with antibodies could helpPreeclampsia is a life-threatening condition that arises in pregnancy and is characterized by high blood pressure and protein in urine. But new preliminary research points to a possible alternative: blood filtering. In a pilot trial involving 16 women with preterm preeclampsia, researchers found that filtering out a protein called sFlt-1 from the pregnant women’s blood was both safe and could modestly reduce their blood pressure. Some blood filtering techniques, such as for kidney disease, are well established. In the first phase of the trial, seven of the women received one blood filtering cycle—which lasted for around an hour to two hours.

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Zepbound’s and Ozempic’s greatest benefit may be their anti-inflammatory power
NEWS | 28 April 2026
A growing body of research suggests that GLP-1 drugs do more than control appetite and blood sugar. And last year GLP-1 drugs received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to treat kidney and liver disease. “Type 2 diabetes and obesity will [over time] contribute substantially to accumulating fat in the liver,” Drucker says. The anti-inflammatory properties might help with liver disease, for instance, but may have little or no effect in improving other conditions. The new evidence reflects “an evolution” in how scientists are thinking about GLP-1 drugs, Drucker says.

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NASA Curiosity discovery, suicide hotline hope, the AI voice clone upper hand
NEWS | 28 April 2026
What NASA’s Curiosity Rover found on Mars, how youth suicides dropped after the launch of the 988 crisis line, and what people think of AI voice clonesRachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners. The new findings come from a bit of rock that Curiosity analyzed way back in 2020. Next, we have some good news on the impact of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Based on pre-988 Lifeline trends, the new study reports, the researchers expected to see 39,901 deaths by suicide among this age cohort. It’s a voice clone: a synthetic voice made to sound like Rachel using AI.

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SPONSORED | 28 April 2026
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How physicists found a new type of magnet hiding in plain sight
NEWS | 28 April 2026
P-wave magnets exhibit behaviors that traditional magnets lack, including imparting special properties to electric currents passed through them. Jiaruo Li uses tiny wires to bond a p-wave magnetic tunnel junction sample to a silicon chip. Physicists say the current has become “spin-polarized,” and a current polarized by one magnet will have an easier time passing through another magnet with the same direction. And the p-wave magnetism Song found in nickel iodide could be the key to a potentially huge increase in energy efficiency. P-wave magnetism hadn’t yet been seen experimentally, and the idea was so new that Comin hadn’t even heard of it.

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An asteroid extinguished all the dinosaurs except for birds. Here’s why
NEWS | 28 April 2026
Many birds were flying over the heads of T. rex and Triceratops when the asteroid hit, and most died alongside their dinosaur cousins. This tree showed that birds evolved from dinosaurs piecemeal over tens of millions of years. Certainly these assets gave birds a leg up compared with the other dinosaurs and the various other animals that died. In fact, many birds were also extinguished in the fire and fury of the asteroid. Many birds were also extinguished by the fire and fury of the asteroid.

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How to build a space hotel
NEWS | 28 April 2026
When astronauts first step onboard commercial space stations, the experience will be unlike anything they’ve encountered before. But the idea of luxury living in space—something commercial space station operators are so far being careful not to promise—can seem like an oxymoron. For instance, the International Space Station (ISS) is cramped, smelly and filled with crumbs and dead skin cells. “The challenges of keeping a space station functional are very underappreciated.”The first of four planned commercial space stations, Haven-1 from California-based company Vast, is set to launch early in 2027. Sleep will be a key part of making commercial space stations feel homey, says Anastasia Prosina, founder of space consultancy firm Stellar Amenities and a commercial space-habitat-development consultant based in California.

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How chemists engineer the signature smells of luxury perfumes
NEWS | 28 April 2026
There’s a story in each one.”For thousands of years perfume ingredients were simply distilled from flowers or extracted from plants. Then, in 1868, the first organic scent molecules were synthesized, opening a panorama of new olfactory possibilities. The luxury market’s appetite for new scent molecules draws on neurobiology: smell is tightly bound to emotion and memory. One side of the machine is a glass chamber containing 300 perfume ingredients; the other is a computer screen. “It’s nowhere near being a finished perfume,” Nilsen shrugs, “but it just makes you happy, doesn’t it?”

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The engineering marvels hidden inside six-figure watches
NEWS | 28 April 2026
Take the first silent vibrating alarm developed for a mechanical watch that debuted in 2019. Mechanical watches are little, miraculous pieces of engineering that still draw on many of the same techniques developed hundreds of years ago. Wang: The Speedmaster Moonwatch is the tool watch with one of the best-known connections to real-life history. At the same time, tool watches are continuing to be advanced. Also, tool watches are a great testing ground for advancements in the movements.

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Surprising ways that sunlight might heal autoimmune diseases
NEWS | 28 April 2026
Now scientists are hoping to decipher the pathways through which UV light causes the immune system to back down from its alarm state. This finding was a breakthrough in our understanding of how skin cancer develops, but it also seemed nonsensical from an evolutionary perspective. How could it possibly be beneficial for our immune system to relax in the presence of a common carcinogen? PLE sufferers develop itchy rashes and plaques after sun exposure, but they are less likely to develop skin cancer. Skin cancer was known to be caused by sunlight, but Apperly suggested that something about the sun was also conferring protection against internal cancers.

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New treatments can free kids from the deadly threat of peanut allergy
NEWS | 28 April 2026
“One out of 10 individuals in the U.S., more than 33 million, has a food allergy,” says Sung Poblete, CEO of Food Allergy Research and Education, an advocacy organization. Based on those results, and anticipating more data, the FDA immediately approved Xolair as a protection against peanut allergy. The results revealed that the occurrence of peanut allergy in Israeli kids was one-tenth the rate among U.K. ones. The babies were tested for preexisting peanut allergy, and if they were negative, they went into one of two groups. But “an allergist isn’t going to see somebody who doesn’t have peanut allergy already,” NIH’s Fulkerson says.

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How much vitamin D do you need to stay healthy?
NEWS | 28 April 2026
Numerous celebrities and vitamin companies raised hopes that vitamin D could be a panacea, says JoAnn Manson, an endocrinologist and epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School and a lead investigator on some of the biggest vitamin D studies to date. These observational studies looked for associations between vitamin D levels and a particular health issue or compared vitamin D status among people with a condition and those without. Holick made a name for himself espousing the health-promoting powers of vitamin D and wrote a book called The Vitamin D Solution: A 3-Step Strategy to Cure Our Most Common Health Problems. Given the VITAL trial’s large size and wide scope, many vitamin D researchers hoped it would put many of the purported benefits of vitamin D supplements to rest. Manson is quick to caution that more isn’t necessarily better when it comes to vitamin D. “Vitamin D is essential to good health, but we require only small to moderate amounts,” she says.

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SPONSORED | 28 April 2026
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New nasal vaccines offer stronger protection from COVID, flu, and more—no needle needed
NEWS | 28 April 2026
A few nasal vaccines have been introduced in the past, but they’ve been beset by problems. But nasal vaccines still face technical hurdles, such as how best to deliver them into the body. This type of caution is one reason a COVID nasal vaccine approved in India hasn’t been adopted by the U.S. or other countries. Although many of the new vaccine strategies are aimed at COVID, nasal vaccines for other diseases are already being planned. But for nasal vaccines, Iwasaki says, “we don’t have a standard way to collect nasal mucus or measure antibody titers.

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These new cancer drugs improve outcomes for people with hard-to-treat tumors
NEWS | 28 April 2026
This drug for breast cancer was the first to use a tumor-specific protein as a homing beacon to find and kill cancer cells. It was really so satisfying.” —Shanu Modi, MSK Cancer CenterEnhertu belongs to an ingenious and growing class of targeted cancer drugs called antibody-drug conjugates, or ADCs. If highly toxic forms of chemotherapy could be strapped onto antibodies, the toxins would reach only the cancer cells and no others. A negative result typically means 10 percent or fewer of the tumor’s cells have HER2 on their surfaces. Another explanation for these nasty effects is that there are no protein targets that are exclusive to cancer cells.