Scientists found that five seemingly unrelated conditions, including longCovid, ME/CFS, and PTSD, may disrupt many of the same biological networks involved in immunity, metabolism, and cellular energy. The findings could help explain their shared symptoms and may open the door to new blood tests and treatments.

Researchers at the University of East Anglia and Oxford BioDynamics have identified a possible biological connection that could help explain why profound exhaustion appears across conditions as different as long Covid and PTSD.

The new study, published in the Journal of Translational Medicine, point...

If computer chips could be built from semiconductors just one atom thick, they could pack far more transistors into a smaller space while using lesspower. So far, however, the technology has been held back by the weakness of “p-type” transistors, which make up half of every modern chip.

In a new study published in Nature, researchers led by Vincent Tung at the University of Tokyo have shown that atom-thin sheets of boron carbon nitride (BCN) could offer a promising solution.

Transistor bottleneck
Today’s chips rely on two types of transistors working in pairs. In “n-type” transistors, electric current is carried by negatively charged electrons...

The universe may be trapped in its own comfort zone, and a researcher in the College of Engineering and Computer Science has helped explain why it cannot seem to leave. A new study suggests the universe could be locked into its current state by the same kinds of quantum effects that scientists study when trying to preserve fragile information inside a quantum computer.

The paper, titled “Cosmic Lockdown: When Decoherence Saves the Universe from Tunneling,” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics.

It was written by Gregory Kaplanek, a postdoctoral researcher working in the lab of Jason Pollack, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, along with four c...

For millions of people, osteoarthritis slowly breaks down the joints, bringing pain, swelling and stiffness that make free movement harder with time. It is largely a condition of age, with 73% of those living with it older than 55. For years, the wear and tear that comes with aging and physical trauma was considered a major driver of the disease. A recent study published in Science, however, points to a metabolic disease that is also highly common among this demographic as a contributing factor in osteoarthritis progression.

A look at national health data from 36,820 Korean adults ages 45 and older revealed that high blood pressure was linked to osteoarthritis, with stronge...