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Autoimmune diseases now affect a substantial and growing share of the global population, and yet most current therapies blunt the...

Machine translation has transformed how hundreds of millions of people read, work, and communicate across language barriers, but the revolution...

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One of the most frustrating patterns in modern cancer treatment is that a therapy which works brilliantly at first can...

For seven puzzling years at the turn of the millennium, the most consequential greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide simply stopped...

Polypropylene is everywhere. It wraps our food, forms our car bumpers, lives in our appliance housings, and quietly performs in...

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Image segmentation is one of those deceptively simple tasks that quietly underpins much of modern computer vision. Before a self-driving...

Immunotherapy has transformed the outlook for many people with advanced cancer, but a remarkable case report from clinicians in Shanghai...

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When drought strikes, a tree cannot walk to the water. It must either endure or die, and the difference between...

One of the most deceptively simple questions in pediatric medicine is whether a snoring child with mild sleep-disordered breathing should...

On a commercial sheep farm in Qiqihar, in northeastern China, a camera mounted three metres above a pen watches thirteen...

A single dietary ingredient may act on the aging brain and body in strikingly different ways depending on sex, according...

A liquid fuel that can be poured, stored and shipped at ambient conditions, produced from biomass or even captured carbon...

Seagrass meadows are among the most valuable ecosystems on the planet, buffering coastlines, storing carbon at extraordinary rates, and serving...

Chinese named entity recognition, the task of automatically finding and classifying names of people, organizations, places, and other key terms...

Every breeding program runs on a quiet promise: that the numbers attached to each plant or animal, the estimated genetic...

A quiet symptom that many oncologists treat as an afterthought may be doing far more damage than previously appreciated. A...