Self-Healing Concrete Recovers Strength and Blocks Water in Deep Mine Shafts
Deep beneath the surface of western China, mine shafts are being sunk through water-saturated, weakly cemented rock strata at depths ...
Nanoparticle-Wrapped Herbal Compound Shields Rat Livers From Arsenic Damage
Arsenic is one of the most insidious contaminants on Earth. It leaches from natural mineral deposits, seeps into groundwater through ...
High-Altitude Holsteins Reveal a Hidden RNA Code Behind Hypoxia Tolerance
Holstein cattle are the workhorses of the global dairy industry, animals bred over generations for one overriding trait: milk yield. ...
New AI network keeps reading emotions even when data streams go dark
Every time you speak, you communicate far more than words. The tilt of your eyebrows, the rhythm of your voice, ...
Tap Water Fluoride Study Links Plasma Levels to Blood Pressure, Testosterone and Sodium in U.S. Children
Fluoride has been added to drinking water supplies across the United States for decades, celebrated as one of the great ...
Exercise Rejuvenates Aging Hearts and Clocks Through a Single Muscle Gene
One of the most persuasive demonstrations of how exercise slows aging has emerged from an unlikely gymnasium: a set of ...
AI Learns to Read Cancer Slides Like a Pathologist by Watching the Neighborhood
Every day, pathologists around the world peer through microscopes at glass slides no bigger than a postage stamp, yet each ...
Emergency Abdominal Surgery Proves Feasible for Patients Over 85, Japanese Study Finds
When a patient aged 85 or older arrives at the emergency department with a perforated bowel or a strangulated hernia, ...
New Database Reveals Hidden RNA Editing in Cancer’s Tiny Messengers
Cancer cells are chatterboxes. Long before a tumor spreads to the liver, lung, or brain, it dispatches fleets of microscopic ...
New Algorithm Turns a Classic Math Trick Into a Window on How Disease Rewrites the Way We Walk
Every step a human takes produces a signal, and every signal tells a story. For decades, clinicians and researchers have ...
AI Language Model Rescues Human Drug Transporter Mutations a Computer Deemed Impossible
Every pill that survives the journey from the stomach into the bloodstream owes much of its success to a single ...
Three Hidden RNA Molecules Revealed as New Clues in Colorectal Cancer Detection and Treatment
Colorectal cancer remains one of the most common and deadliest malignancies worldwide, responsible for well over 900,000 deaths each year ...
Scientists Forge Impossible Copper-Vanadium Alloy at Room Temperature Using Extreme Torsion
In a result that reads more like materials science fiction than laboratory reality, an international team of researchers has achieved ...
Ancient Chinese Wheat Yields a Genetic Key to More Grain Per Plant
Every wheat plant makes a decision, over and over, that determines how much food it will ultimately provide: whether a ...
The Aging Brain Rewires Its Resting Rhythms, Landmark MEG Study of 617 Adults Reveals
For decades, scientists studying the aging brain have peered at static snapshots: how much gray matter has thinned, how strong ...
Fungal Allies Decoded: How Trichoderma Rewires Melon Roots to Defeat Fusarium Wilt
Fusarium wilt is one of the most destructive diseases facing melon growers worldwide. Caused by the soil-borne fungus Fusarium oxysporum ...
Gold-Silver Nanostructure Arrays Push Caffeine Sensing to New Sensitivity Limits
Caffeine is the most widely consumed psychoactive substance on Earth, threaded through coffee, tea, energy drinks, and medications, yet detecting ...
AI and Smart Sensors Are Rewriting the Rules of Crop Pest Detection
Insect pests are quietly one of the most expensive problems in global agriculture. According to estimates from the Food and ...
How Image-Guided Medicine Could Transform Cancer Care Across Sub-Saharan Africa
Deep inside the human body, a tumor can be starved, burned, or destroyed through a needle thinner than a pencil ...
Internalized Weight Stigma Predicts Disordered Eating in Teens, Two-Year Study Finds
Adolescents who turn society’s weight-based stereotypes against themselves face a measurably higher risk of developing disordered eating over the following ...