Stretchable liquid metal implant keeps wireless power flowing through body movement
Implantable bioelectronics have long promised a future of battery-free medical devices that sit quietly inside the body, delivering therapy or ...
Hidden Oxygen Vacancies at Chromium–Zinc Oxide Interfaces Drive Syngas-to-Olefins Catalysis
Oxygen vacancies—tiny voids where an oxygen atom is missing from a metal oxide lattice—have long been suspected as the true ...
Open Chromatin Is Not So Open: Active Genes Ride on Condensed Domains
For decades, biology textbooks have drawn a deceptively simple picture of the genome’s physical state: dark, tightly packed heterochromatin silences ...
Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer Simulates Particle Physics With Qubits and Phonons Together
Simulating the fundamental forces of nature on a computer is one of the grand challenges of modern physics, and a ...
Traditional Chinese Herb Extends Lifespan by Switching On a Cellular Longevity Pathway
A flowering plant long used in traditional Chinese medicine may hold a genuine molecular key to slowing aging, according to ...
Silent Signals: How Stroke Rewires Brain Astrocytes to Accelerate Glioma Growth
A stroke is one of the most devastating events the brain can endure, killing neurons and triggering a cascade of ...
A Decade of Postmortem Imaging Is Quietly Transforming Paediatric Autopsy Practice
When two paediatric radiologists published a short commentary in 2015 under the Latin motto “mortui vivos docent” — the dead ...
New Study Maps How Hospital AI Turns Information Chaos into Faster, Cheaper Care
Artificial intelligence has swept into hospitals with dazzling promises: algorithms that read retinal scans better than specialists, models that predict ...
AI Forecasting Reshapes Doctor Schedules in a Pediatric Emergency Room
Emergency departments around the world share a stubborn problem: patients arrive in waves that never quite match the number of ...
Damiana Plant Polysaccharides Extend Lifespan in Worms and Flies, Study Finds
A humble shrub long steeped in traditional medicine has delivered one of the more intriguing anti-aging results of the year. ...
Forever Chemicals in Pregnancy Tied to Higher Gestational Diabetes Risk, Vitamin D May Blunt the Effect
A new study from China adds to mounting evidence that the so-called forever chemicals pervading modern life may interfere with ...
Mild Pepper Virus Turned Into a Powerful Gene Tool for Crop Scientists
Pepper is one of the most economically important vegetable crops in the world, yet scientists trying to understand which of ...
Metabolite Fingerprint in Seminal Plasma Could Explain Hidden Male Infertility
Male infertility is responsible for roughly half of all infertility cases worldwide, yet the standard diagnostic tool, conventional semen analysis, ...
Baby Teeth Reveal a Narrow Window Around Birth When Arsenic Weakens Vaccine Immunity
Arsenic is one of the most pervasive environmental contaminants on the planet, seeping into drinking water and food supplies from ...
Cell Death Regulator BI-1 Emerges as Key Switch in Plant Immunity Against Oomycete Pathogens
Scientists studying how plants fend off one of agriculture’s most destructive groups of pathogens have uncovered a molecular switch that ...
One Robot, Three Rules: How Japan, China and Hong Kong See AI Harm Differently
A robotic baby harp seal named PARO has been comforting elderly patients in care homes for two decades, reducing anxiety ...
Rare Brain Calcification Disorder and Cerebellar Tumor Collide in One Patient
In a striking reminder of how rarely the human brain follows textbook rules, clinicians have reported the case of an ...
Chemists Turn to Eudesmol Isomers to Grade the World’s Priciest Wood
Agarwood, the dark, resin-saturated heartwood formed when Aquilaria trees respond to injury and microbial attack, is one of the most ...
Mildly Alkaline Implant Surfaces Enlist Neutrophils to Fight Infection and Rebuild Bone
Orthopedic implants have transformed the treatment of fractures and bone defects, yet implant-associated infection remains one of the most stubborn ...
Stroke Recovery Questionnaire Proves Reliable in Measuring Meaning of Daily Activities
What makes an everyday activity feel worthwhile? For most people, the answer is invisible, woven into routines like cooking a ...