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Roadless Rule Safeguards Drinking Water for 25 Million Americans, Study Finds
Federal protection of national forest “roadless areas” may be far more important to clean drinking water than many people realize,...
New African monkey species discovered deep in Congo rainforest
In the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), scientists have confirmed a previously unknown African monkey species, described...
Food System Transformation Could Reshape Global Agriculture, Experts Say
A major new multimodel ensemble (MME) study assesses how global agriculture could look by 2050 under a coordinated “food systems...
Laryngoscopy attempts during transition linked to severe intraventricular hemorrhage in extreme preterms
A new study is putting a spotlight on a seemingly narrow detail in neonatal care: how many times clinicians need...
Butyrate epigenetically sustains intestinal epithelial–T cell signaling for tolerance
A new study published in Nature Communications reports that butyrate—an abundant gut microbial metabolite—can epigenetically “license” prolonged conversations between intestinal...
Designing Rational Home-Based Studies to Assess Infants’ Sleep Patterns
A new study published this week tackles a surprisingly difficult question for sleep science: how to measure infants’ sleep in...
Correction: NLRP3 pyroptosis worsens mouse cardiac hypertrophy; irisin is protective
A recent correction published in Cell Death Discovery updates the record for a study examining how immune signaling shapes the...
Older Adults’ Hip Abduction and Ankle Dorsiflexion Differences After Falls
A new study is turning attention to a subtle mix of joint function that may help explain why some older...
GPS satellite data calibrated for improved space weather research
For more than two decades, GPS has been quietly watching Earth’s radiation belts by measuring streams of energetic electrons. But...
New Inhibitors Could Enhance Chemotherapy’s Attack on Resistant Cancer Cells
Scientists at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center report the discovery of a...
Low Carbon Dioxide Boosts Microbes to Produce More Biodegradable Plastic
A new study suggests that tweaking the carbon dioxide supply in safe gas fermentation can markedly boost the production of...
Virtual Tumor Model Predicts Response to Liver Cancer Immunotherapy
A research team at Johns Hopkins has built a computational framework to forecast which people with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) may...
Deforestation declines show corporate pledges aren’t the driving force
Tropical forests underpin biodiversity, stabilise climate, and lock away vast stores of carbon—yet they are still being converted to other...
New Fungal Species Named After Sweden’s King Unveiled
Uppsala University researchers have identified a completely new fungal species, naming it Semicentenialea rex in honor of Sweden’s King Carl...
Fragmented European wetlands face uneven restoration needs and patchy recovery efforts
European countries are being asked to restore degraded wetlands, but a new analysis shows that the burden will fall very...
Self-Aligned Heterogeneous Integration Advances Quantum Photonics Fabrication
A new approach to quantum photonics promises to make complex optical chips faster to design and more reliable to fabricate....
Local Complement C3 Shapes Control Myeloid Infiltration and Checkpoint Blockade Efficacy
A team investigating how tumors respond to immunotherapy reports that complement component C3 plays a decisive role—but only when it...
Longitudinal Urine Metabolomics Predicts High-Grade Brain Injury in Very Preterm Infants
Preterm birth leaves many infants vulnerable to brain injury, but detecting damage early is notoriously difficult. A new viral science...
Risk factors linked to abnormal autism screening in extremely preterm children
Extremely preterm birth is a medical crossroads where early survival can be followed by long-term neurodevelopmental challenges. In a new...
Novel Prognostic Biomarker and Oncogenic Driver Identified in Colorectal Cancer
Colorectal cancer continues to claim lives worldwide, and clinicians still lack robust biomarkers that can forecast disease behavior and guide...
