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Sentiment analysis on Twitter has always been a deceptively hard problem. A single tweet may contain only a few dozen...

Every year, the global citrus industry discards mountains of peel, and one of those discarded peels may now hold a...

Obstructive sleep apnea has long been dismissed as a noisy nuisance of the night, a condition whose chief casualties are...

Thermophilic bacteriophages occupy a curious corner of virology. They infect bacteria that thrive at temperatures where most life struggles, and...

Cloud computing has become the invisible backbone of modern life, quietly powering everything from banking apps to hospital records and...

Steamed bread, the fluffy staple that anchors breakfast tables across Asia and increasingly appears on menus worldwide, has long depended...

The ketogenic diet, long known as a high-fat, very-low-carbohydrate regimen used to treat epilepsy, is now being reframed as something...

Chronic pain remains one of the most stubborn challenges in modern medicine, and for millions of military veterans it is...

On the volcanic islands of the Gulf of Guinea, two of the world’s most medically important mosquitoes are quietly sorting...

In the coal-rich heart of northern China, where mines, power plants, and cement kilns cluster within a few kilometers of...

Thailand’s fields and forests shelter one of the most underappreciated repositories of plant diversity in Southeast Asia, and a sweeping...

Five years after a breast cancer diagnosis, when many women are considered long-term survivors and have largely returned to everyday...

Mental health nurses in Oman are sounding a quiet alarm. A new qualitative study published in BMC Nursing has unpacked...

Coral bleaching has long been described at the scale of entire reefs: vast stretches of white skeleton where colorful colonies...

Computers that can read lips have long been a staple of science fiction, but turning that fantasy into working technology...

Raw pet food has become one of the fastest-growing segments of the companion animal market, driven by owners who increasingly...

A sleek titanium ring worn on a finger, sold to consumers as a sleep and fitness gadget, may be able...

Deep in the frozen ruins of Whalers Bay on Deception Island, one of the most storied locations in maritime Antarctica,...

Machine learning systems now decide who gets a loan, who passes a job screening, and who receives a high-risk score...