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Babies under 12 weeks tolerated anti-HIV antibody treatment, but adding VRC01 to antiretroviral therapy did not significantly reduce HIV DNA overall—and one detail may explain why @sciencetm medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-h…

Visible light became UV in a solid at ordinary sunlight intensity, with 1.9% upconversion efficiency—something most solid-state materials cannot achieve even under much stronger illumination. @KyushuUniv_EN @NatureComms phys.org/news/2026-06-s…

Just 0.12% sodium alginate made excavated earth 33% faster to 3D print and 25% stronger under pressure, by helping clay and sand stay stable while still flowing. @NatureComms techxplore.com/news/2026-06-s…

80% of mice stayed disease-free for six months after a two-part genital herpes vaccine, versus 40% with an injection alone—and the localized “pull” may be the key. @yale @SciImmunology medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-p…

Weeks to months before some major earthquakes, hidden seismicity patterns can emerge—and this method found them before Kahramanmaraş, Iquique, and L’Aquila, but not before every event. @NatureComms phys.org/news/2026-06-h…

Pantheon+ supernova data with an age-based brightness correction no longer support a uniformly accelerating universe, and the inferred effect appears strongest along our local motion and fades with distance. @UniofOxford @RoyalAstroSoc phys.org/news/2026-06-p…

More than 4x higher throughput and over 5x better energy efficiency: a brain-inspired spiking AI architecture handled long-sequence tasks while using 40–60% fewer parameters and compact memory. @NatMachIntell techxplore.com/news/2026-06-b…

By day 60, pigs with completely severed spinal cords could stand and walk after a fusogen-based gel was applied, while untreated pigs showed no recovery. @PLOSONE medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-s…

Plants on Earth may last nearly 2 billion more years, with a new model extending the vegetative biosphere to about 1.35–1.86 billion years depending on how strongly silicate weathering pulls CO2 from the air. phys.org/news/2026-06-s…

Mice on a low-protein, methionine-supplemented Mediterranean-style diet lived healthier longer, losing fat without losing lean mass even while eating as much as other groups. @USC @cell_metabolism medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-m…

17th-century goose skulls from Germany may mark Europe’s earliest known crested geese, their heads pierced by holes linked to ornamental feather tufts. phys.org/news/2026-06-l…

A simpler refining route turned food waste into jet-grade fuel that worked in a 50–50 blend with regular jet fuel, though handling a toxic byproduct still shapes the economics. @UofIllinois @naturesustai techxplore.com/news/2026-06-f…

A toddler’s digital brain twin matched real EEG activity and pointed to ASD-linked misfires: background electrical noise was 100 times higher, while excitation-to-inhibition signals were three times higher. @PLOSDigiHealth medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-a…

Low caffeine doses improved race times, and 4–6 mg/kg delivered the most consistent boost at about 2.18% faster finishes, while anything above that remains untested in real time trials. sciencex.com/news/2026-06-c…

Nitric oxide may help form urban air pollution particles, not suppress them, by rapidly turning aromatic carbonyl compounds into aerosol precursors through a previously overlooked pathway. @NatureComms phys.org/news/2026-06-d…

A wine-cork-sized dental robot prepared crown teeth with under 0.2 mm error in tests, pointing to a faster workflow that could cut follow-up visits once sensors are added. @unibasel medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-m…

Printed silver-selenium thermoelectric materials reached competitive room-temperature performance, pointing to cooling devices with no gaseous refrigerants and zero leaks. @RoySocChem techxplore.com/news/2026-06-i…

Across 1,900+ languages, reused word parts appear to be a middle-ground strategy: meanings stay partly linked in form, but not so similar that they are easily confused. @NatureHumBehav phys.org/news/2026-06-l…

30 times more efficient than CRISPR, a zebra finch-derived gene tool inserted targeted plant DNA in a single step, including a three-enzyme pathway, though results so far come from transient experiments. @Caltech @NatureBiotech phys.org/news/2026-06-b…

Erucamide levels fall sharply as photoreceptors begin to die, and restoring it slowed aspects of retinal degeneration by activating immune cells that support tissue stability. @NatureNeuro medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-e…