Resilience Powers Rural Small Businesses in Zimbabwe, Landmark Survey Finds
In the drought-prone districts of central Zimbabwe, the difference between a small business that thrives and one that quietly disappears ...
Melanoma’s Genetic Blueprint Builds Immune-Proof Tumor Neighborhoods, Study Finds
Why do some melanomas shrug off the most celebrated cancer drugs of our era while others melt away under the ...
Why the First 1000 Days Decide the Fate of Global Health Equity
Global child survival has improved at a pace few would have predicted a generation ago. Between 2000 and 2024, deaths ...
Ocean Particles Forge Lasting Bonds Between Bacteria and Plankton, Year-Long Study Finds
In the coastal waters of the South China Sea, an invisible architecture of relationships binds together some of the ocean’s ...
Designer Salts Called Ionic Liquids Are Reshaping How Metal Nanoparticles Are Made and Used in Medicine
A quiet revolution in materials chemistry is unfolding inside a class of liquids that barely existed as practical tools a ...
Urban Millipedes Reveal Surprisingly Picky Diets in China’s Fragmented Forests
Beneath the fallen leaves of China’s shrinking urban forests, an unassuming detritivore is quietly rewriting what scientists know about how ...
Chiropractic Care Shows Gains in Function and Pain Relief for Cancer Patients
Cancer survival has improved dramatically over the past few decades, but the treatments that save lives often leave behind a ...
Most Children with Life-Limiting Conditions Live for Years, Landmark Danish Study Finds
A child receives a devastating diagnosis of a life-limiting condition, and the first question every parent asks is some version ...
Tree Leaf Extract Yields Ferromagnetic Nickel Oxide Nanoparticles With Wide-Ranging Biomedical Activity
Researchers in Maharashtra, India have turned the leaves of a traditional Ayurvedic medicinal tree into a factory for one of ...
AI Reads Three Layers of Breast Cancer Biology at Once to Sharpen Subtype Diagnosis
Breast cancer is not one disease. Under the microscope, tumors may look similar, but at the molecular level they split ...
Encrypted AI Training: Blockchain and Homomorphic Encryption Harden Federated Learning
Federated learning has long been pitched as the privacy-friendly way to train artificial intelligence: instead of shipping sensitive data to ...
Immunotherapy Reshapes Advanced Liver Cancer Care in Europe, but Access Lags Behind
Liver cancer has long been one of oncology’s most stubborn challenges, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) — the dominant primary liver ...
Mother and Baby Do Not Share a Metabolic Fingerprint at Birth, Study Finds
For decades, researchers probing the chemistry of pregnancy have faced an uncomfortable practical constraint: the fetus is chemically invisible. Drawing ...
Water Molecules Shield Metal-Organic Framework From Ibuprofen’s Strongest Grip
Every year, tons of ibuprofen slip past wastewater treatment plants and drift into rivers, lakes, and drinking water supplies. The ...
Liver Surgery Gives Cats With Rare Tumours a Far Better Prognosis Than Once Thought
For decades, a diagnosis of a primary liver tumour in a cat was treated as close to a death sentence. ...
Aging Blunts a Protective Gut Lipid Defense That Keeps COVID-19 Mild
Why COVID-19 hits older people so much harder has been one of the pandemic’s most stubborn questions, and much of ...
New AI Tool MANTRA Reads Leukemia Data in Multiple Dimensions to Reveal Hidden Patient Subgroups
Every patient with leukemia carries a molecular story written across multiple layers of data: gene expression, chromatin accessibility, and drug ...
TinZr: A $65 Open-Source Wearable Puts Multi-Sensor Health Tracking on a Single Tiny Board
A pocket-sized circuit board measuring just 25 by 25 millimeters could change how researchers build wearable health devices. Engineers have ...
Doubling Chromosomes Turns Goji Relative Self-Fertile by Disarming Its Own Pollen Rejection System
When plants duplicate their entire genome, the consequences ripple through nearly every aspect of their biology, from the size of ...
Computational Protein Design Supercharges Engineered Immune Cells Against Cancer and Viruses
Scientists in Israel have shown that a computer can help rewire the immune system’s most powerful weapons. In a study ...