University of Warwick real-time study shows how ‘mental defeat’ drives suffering and causes people with chronic pain to withdraw from everyday activities.

Aging is a complex process, and precisely measuring how the human body declines has long been a challenge. Two people of the same chronological age can have very different health trajectories. Scientists have also struggled to move beyond identifying aging markers to pinpointing what actually drives aging itself. Now researchers from China’s Aging Biomarker Consortium (ABC) have built a computational framework—the Digital Aging Twin—to study aging at the individual level in order to predict biological age and track the different aging rates of individual organs.

Digital twins in translational research and health care, human research protection during emergencies, early phase trials

The Hertz Foundation, the nation’s preeminent nonprofit organization committed to advancing American scientific and technological leadership, has announced 19 recipients of the 2026 Hertz Fellowship in the applied sciences, engineering and mathematics. Awarded through a rigorous selection process honed over eight decades, the Hertz Fellowship is the nation’s most competitive doctoral fellowship in science and technology. Hertz Fellows receive up to five years of financial support — a stipend and full tuition equivalent — offering the rare freedom to pursue bold ideas and a community of influential peers dedicated to their success.