In a Dish, Male and Female Macrophages Wage Inflammation Differently
Men and women do not experience inflammation in the same way, and clinicians have known this for decades. Women mount ...
Himalayan Tree Bark Yields Extracts That Outperform Antibiotics in Lab Tests
A little-known tree from the mountain forests of Pakistan and Afghanistan is emerging as one of the most intriguing botanical ...
Pandemic Quietly Eroded Timely Breast Cancer Care at Mexico’s Leading Cancer Center
When the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic swept through Mexico in 2020, hospitals in Mexico City transformed almost overnight. Wards were converted, operating ...
New Statistical Model Maps How Air Pollution Reshapes the Human Microbiome
Fine particulate matter, the invisible haze of particles smaller than 2.5 microns that drifts from traffic, industry, and wildfire smoke, ...
Chiral 2D Framework Turns Rhodium Catalyst Into a Recycling Champion
Chemists have long faced an awkward trade-off at the heart of asymmetric catalysis. Homogeneous catalysts, in which every active metal ...
Durian Seeds Could Become an Unexpected New Source of Pectin, Review Finds
The durian is famous for polarizing the world with its smell, but in Southeast Asia it generates something less discussed: ...
Light Ball Milling Splits Steel Slag Into a Fraction That Carbonates Far Better
Steel is one of the most recycled materials on Earth, yet its production leaves behind an enormous and awkward legacy: ...
Three Years of Biochar Left a Fertile Kentucky Soil Mostly Unchanged
Biochar has been heralded as one of agriculture’s most seductive fixes: a charcoal-like material that locks carbon into the ground ...
Brain Tumour Patients Sent Home One Day After Craniotomy in Radical Shift
Neurosurgeons have long assumed that removing a brain tumour must be followed by days of inpatient monitoring, but a new ...
Three Imaging Techniques Combined to Watch Diabetic Wounds Heal in Real Time
Diabetic foot ulcers are among the most stubborn and dangerous complications of diabetes, quietly progressing from a small sore to ...
Crayfish and Rice Team Up to Build Stronger, Healthier Soil
In the flooded paddies of Qianjiang, in China’s Hubei Province, farmers have long paired two very different crops: rice above ...
Lightweight AI Model Slashes Flood Warning Times by Over 80 Percent
Floods remain among the deadliest and most economically destructive natural hazards on Earth, and the window in which authorities can ...
Frequency-Boosted AI Sharpens Its Focus on Tiny Crop-Killing Fruit Flies
Fruit flies of the genus Drosophila are among the most destructive pests in global horticulture, capable of parasitizing more than ...
Ranking the Safest Immunotherapy-Chemo Combos: Massive Analysis of 36,664 Cancer Patients Reveals Clear Winners
Immune checkpoint inhibitors have transformed the first-line treatment of advanced solid tumors over the past decade, turning once-fatal diagnoses into ...
High-Risk Salvage Surgery Offers Curative Hope for Inoperable Esophageal Cancer, Meta-Analysis Finds
Esophageal cancer remains one of the most lethal malignancies worldwide, ranking as the eleventh most common cancer and the seventh ...
Tiny creases in soft materials act as rewritable gates that steer and sort droplets
A droplet gliding across a soft rubbery surface would seem to have a simple life: it spreads, it slides, and ...
Sweet Osmanthus Oil Shows Antimicrobial and Insecticidal Power in New Study
The fragrance industry has long treasured Osmanthus fragrans, the sweet olive tree whose tiny golden blossoms perfume some of the ...
Shaping Polymer Chains Tames Light: Nanowire Morphology Steers Nonlinear Optics in P3HT
Conjugated polymers have long promised a cheap, flexible route to photonic devices that inorganic crystals can only match at far ...
Sugar, Vinegar and Wine: A Kitchen-Recipe Trap Wiped Out a Major Waxberry Pest in Three Years
In the waxberry orchards of Wuxi City, in China’s Jiangsu Province, a shiny green-and-bronze flower beetle has been quietly waging ...
Single-Dose Oral NEPA Shows Promise Against Chemotherapy Nausea in Children
For children undergoing cancer treatment, the drugs designed to save their lives often come with a punishing side effect: relentless ...