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Zirconium alloys are the quiet workhorses of the nuclear world. Because zirconium barely interacts with neutrons, it is the metal...

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When a colorectal tumor grows large enough to block the bowel, patients often face one of the most dangerous emergencies...

Sleep problems are among the most burdensome features of Parkinson’s disease, and a sweeping new analysis of randomised clinical trials...

Wound care has long faced an uncomfortable trade-off: dressings that protect the wound often fail to fight infection, while dressings...

In the rice fields of northern Bangladesh, the timing of a pest invasion is written in the weather. A six-year...

Quasicrystals are among the strangest solids ever discovered. Their atoms are arranged in patterns that are ordered but never repeat,...

Tomato growers know the devastation that bacterial pathogens can inflict on a crop, and one of the most notorious culprits...

Artificial intelligence has quietly become one of the most consequential forces in modern oncology, and a new comprehensive review published...

For millions of people living with rheumatic mitral stenosis, a narrowed heart valve scarred by childhood streptococcal infection, the choice...

Every day, millions of vehicles on roads around the world exchange a constant stream of messages with each other, with...

In the rocky highlands of north-western Benin, where farmers have cultivated sorghum for generations without formal seed systems, a team...

Metastatic colorectal cancer remains one of the most stubborn frontiers in modern oncology, and a new review published in Medical...

Patients with severe mitral regurgitation who are too frail for open-heart surgery increasingly owe their lives to a catheter-based procedure...

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Every day, megacities receive an avalanche of citizen complaints. In China, the 12345 Citizen Service Hotline alone funnels tens of...

Chicken manure has long been celebrated as the green alternative to synthetic fertilizers, a way to feed crops while recycling...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming medicine, and one of its most promising frontiers is radiomics, the extraction of hundreds of...

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