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A 2026 narrative opinion article proposes “dominant trajectory” as a way for clinicians to document which pulmonary ground-glass nodule deserves priority at each stage of follow-up and to record why that priority changes. The framework combines lesion-specific imaging, the status of the remaining nodules, available treatment capacity and patient goals. It is not a validated c...

Southwest Research Institute and the City of San Antonio are beginning an automated survey of unrestrained dogs across 32 areas of the city. The city-funded project pairs cellular phones mounted on vehicle windows with SwRI-developed object-detection and data-analysis software. Engineers plan to collect video during fieldwork from October through December 2026, then compile s...

India’s rapid economic expansion brought major gains in electricity access and cleaner household cooking, but a parallel surge in coal-fired generation helped raise outdoor air pollution and the estimated number of urban deaths attributable to fine particulate matter, according to a peer-reviewed study led by the University of Oxford. The analysis, published in Nature Cit...

Patients with trigeminal neuralgia had thicker cerebellar cortex in two lobules than healthy controls in a cross-sectional MRI study, while the same analysis found no significant differences in cerebellar volume. The study included 86 patients and 40 controls, and its investigators also examined preoperative and postoperative scans from 49 patients to explore whether surgery ...

Host DNA retained on the cuticle of adult parasitoid wasps can reveal the species from which they emerged, according to a controlled laboratory study that introduces a non-destructive molecular method for identifying parasitoid–host associations. Researchers washed recently emerged Lariophagus distinguendus wasps with a buffer, extracted DNA from the wash, and used mitochondr...