Military & First RespondersJul 20, 2026
Troop Testosterone Testing Now Available: Why? And Treatment Pros & Cons
The U.S. military’s new testosterone-screening protocol directly supports its focus on human performance optimization.
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Clinical PsychologyJul 20, 2026
Dave Asprey Announces BEYOND Wonderland Conference, a New Psychedelic Science and Consciousness Event Joining the BEYOND Series
Dave Asprey, 4x New York Times bestselling author, longevity expert and creator of the biohacking movement, announces BEYOND Wonderland Conference, a two-day immersive experience dedicated to ...
Mental HealthJul 20, 2026
Psychology says people who hate phone calls but reply instantly to texts may not be experiencing social anxiety
Psychology says people who hate phone calls are often responding to the demands of real-time communication rather than rejecting social interaction. Some people feel most connected through voice ...
AddictionJul 20, 2026
Foundations to Freedom Launches New Young Adult Substance Use Disorder Program Through Florida Department of Children and Families Grant
Foundations to Freedom is proud to announce the launch of its new 18–24 Young Adult Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Program, made possible through funding from the Florida Department of Children and ...
Cognitive PsychologyJul 20, 2026
Psychology says people who leave cabinet doors open may not be as absent-minded, they may be experiencing attention shifts and memory lapses
Research reminds us that nearly everyone experiences small lapses in attention during busy days. While closing cabinet doors may seem like a simple action, it depends on memory, focus, and the ability ...
Borderline personality disorderJul 20, 2026
World‘s largest genetic study on borderline identifies 11 risk loci and broad overlaps
An international team led by the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim has presented the largest genome-wide association study on borderline personality disorder to date. Data from around 13, ...
Mental HealthJul 20, 2026
Qualifacts Advances AI for Behavioral Health with New Generative and Agentic Capabilities in Qualifacts iQ
New Qualifacts iQ suite releases bring generative and agentic AI into the everyday workflows that clinical and billing teams rely on ...
Primary-care clinicsJul 20, 2026
VA Is Adding Virtual Reality to Primary Care: What It Does and How It Works
Primary care providers across the VA are introducing VR headsets during appointments to help with stress, anxiety and chronic pain.
PolicyJul 20, 2026
Road deaths fall by 21% globally but stronger action is needed to save lives
Despite the addition of more than one billion motor-vehicles to the world’s roads, road traffic deaths declined by 21% between 2011 and 2025, according to new data released by the World Health Organization (WHO). The…
Clinical PsychologyJul 20, 2026
The VA’s deadly cocktail: Why operators are risking jail for underground psychedelic therapy
America is forcing its most battle-tested veterans to choose between suffering legally and healing outside the law, while the military quietly bleeds away the experience it cannot replace.
ResearchJul 20, 2026
Source limitation drives slow compositional recovery in tropical secondary forests
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 31, August 2026. SignificanceAlthough tropical forests can recover many characteristics of mature, undisturbed forests within decades, plant species…
ResearchJul 20, 2026
Dietary DNA in municipal wastewater reveals signatures of wealth, immigration, and coastal proximity
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 31, August 2026. SignificancePoor diet is a leading driver of chronic disease worldwide, yet current dietary surveillance methods are costly, slow, and…
ResearchJul 20, 2026
Correction for Sabzehei et al., Exploring PrPC unfolding as a critical step preceding its refolding in the context of PrPSc propagation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 30, July 2026.
ResearchJul 20, 2026
Correction for Buche et al., Trait-mediated interactions drive local diversity
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 30, July 2026.
ResearchJul 20, 2026
Correction for Patel, The simplicity of the Hodge bundle
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 30, July 2026.
ResearchJul 20, 2026
LARP1 at the nexus of oncogenic MYC and mTOR signaling
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 30, July 2026.
ResearchJul 20, 2026
Context matters: Interpreting antiphage phenotypes and synergies of a DNA-intercalating agent
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 30, July 2026.
ResearchJul 20, 2026
One step forward, two steps back: A first look at the planetary health implications of the 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 30, July 2026.
ResearchJul 20, 2026
Shifting cultivation as a self-organizing social–ecological system
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 30, July 2026.
ResearchJul 20, 2026
The dual face of miR-146a in ALS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 30, July 2026.
ResearchJul 20, 2026
The 2026 western US snow drought was about four times more likely due to climate change
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 30, July 2026. In the spring of 2026, anomalously low snow conditions in the western United States threatened winter recreation and water supplies. Here…
ResearchJul 20, 2026
Public responses to atrocities depend on partisanship and context, not legal labels
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 30, July 2026. Legal labels such as genocide and crimes against humanity carry substantial legal and diplomatic weight in elite and institutional arenas…
ResearchJul 20, 2026
Record-low 2025 and 2026 ice extents restore Arctic winter sea-ice decline
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 30, July 2026. Recent analyses have suggested that the decadal rate of Arctic winter sea-ice extent decline weakened in the early 2020s, with 20-y trends…
ResearchJul 20, 2026
At the boundary: Law and AI
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 30, July 2026.
ResearchJul 20, 2026
Continuity and change in US legal tradition: Evidence from judicial citation communities
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 30, July 2026. SignificanceUsing 760,000 U.S. federal court opinions linked by 8.3 million citations, we identify legal traditions as citation…
ResearchJul 20, 2026
Shape instabilities of active epithelial domes under hydraulic stress: Growth, collapse, and oscillation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 30, July 2026. SignificanceHow epithelial tissues control the shape dynamics of fluid-filled epithelial cavities remains poorly understood. Using MDCK…
ResearchJul 20, 2026
α-fluoro-β-alanine functions as a β-arrestin1-biased ligand of S1PR2 to upregulate DPD expression in cancer cells
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 30, July 2026. SignificanceHerein, we identify α-fluoro-β-alanine (FBAL), a metabolite of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), as a β-arrestin1-biased ligand of…
ResearchJul 20, 2026
The backfiring effect of weak AI safety regulation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 30, July 2026. SignificanceProposed regulatory approaches to promote safe development of AI differentiate between entities developing base models and…
ResearchJul 20, 2026
Glucocorticoid receptors in oligodendrocyte precursor cells regulate hippocampal network plasticity and stress-induced behavior in mice
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 30, July 2026. SignificanceGlucocorticoids shape postnatal brain development and adaptive plasticity through glucocorticoid receptors (GRs), yet their…
ResearchJul 20, 2026
The unique Efg1 fungal virulence regulon in the catheterized bladder environment
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 30, July 2026. SignificanceCatheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are common hospital-acquired infections that can lead to severe…