Honey bee "dance floors" can be accurately located with a new method, mapping where in the hive forager bees perform waggle dances to signal the location of pollen and nectar for their nestmates

Scientists have identified a further twelve dog breeds as being at risk of Brachycephalic Obstructive Airway Syndrome – a condition that can cause serious breathing problems – including the Pekingese, Shih Tzu, Boston Terrier, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Chihuahua and Boxer.

In short-skulled (brachycephalic) dogs, a very flat face, collapsing nostrils, and a plump physique are associated with difficulty breathing, with Pekingeses and Japanese Chins at especially high risk, according to a study published February 18, 2026 in the open-access journal PLOS One by Francesca Tomlinson from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and colleagues.

Manuela Martins-Green, an internationally recognized researcher at UC Riverside whose work focuses on wound healing, tissue engineering, and the cellular and molecular mechanisms of injury response, has been selected as the 2026 recipient of The Lifetime Achievement Award from the Wound Healing Society.

New research shows a single year of warmer-than-average Arctic temperatures can cause malnutrition in Arctic seals, intensifying risks to Inuit food security and northern ecosystems already under pressure from environmental toxins, warn Simon Fraser University researchers.

Extreme environments — on Earth and beyond — limit human habitation due to high levels of contaminants in the soil, making it difficult for food production. With instrumental funding from the WoodNext Foundation, researchers from Texas A&M University hope to rehabilitate extreme environments by integrating entomology, robotics, artificial intelligence and sensor technology. 

Brain “waves” are rhythms of electrical activity generated by large groups of neurons working together. Clinicians use it to look for patterns linked to sleep, seizures and other changes in brain function. These rhythms change as the brain develops, and disruptions to that process have been linked to conditions ranging from epilepsy to neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders.

To learn what controls the advent of these rhythmic patterns in humans, scientists need more tools. In a study published on January 24, 2026, in Neurobiology of Disease, researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, with collaborators at the University of California San Diego and BioMarin Pharmaceutical, developed a simplified, scalable human cell model to study how coordinated rhythms of brain activity emerge. This platform provides a foundation for future efforts to model brain wave development, study its dysregulation in disease and test candidate treatments.