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Fungi Grown on Farm Waste Turn Into Tough, Tunable Biomaterials
Researchers in South Africa have identified seven non-pathogenic fungal species that can transform agricultural waste into mycelium-based biomaterials with properties...
Machine Learning Gets a Robustness Boost by Turning Labels into Preferences
Multi-label classification, the machine learning task of assigning several labels at once to a single object, is everywhere in modern...
Common Rice Field Weed Revealed as Hidden Reservoir of Devastating Dwarf Virus
A weed that rice farmers have long regarded as little more than a nuisance for yield and herbicide budgets has...
Needles Instead of Scalpels: How Image-Guided Ablation Is Reshaping Care for Children With Solid Tumors
For a child with cancer, the word surgery often conjures the most frightening image of treatment: long incisions, weeks of...
Cryoprotectant-Free Vitrification Leaves Hidden Molecular Marks on Human Sperm
A new study comparing the two main ways of freezing human sperm has found that even when samples look equally...
Bubble Collapse and Hydrogen Peroxide Join Forces to Destroy Stubborn Dye Pollutants
Synthetic dyes are among the most stubborn pollutants humanity releases into rivers and groundwater, and azo dyes—the largest class, defined...
New AI Pipeline Turns Tangled 3D Brain Videos into Clear Neuronal Activity Maps
Neuroscientists can now record electrical storms of activity from tens of thousands of neurons at once, but a stubborn bottleneck...
AI Algorithm Sharpens Biomass Energy Forecasts for Smarter Renewable Power Grids
Researchers have unveiled a hybrid artificial intelligence framework that dramatically improves the accuracy of biomass energy forecasting, a capability that...
Monsoon Rhythms Reshape the Fertility of India’s Crucial Farming Soils
Across the wheat, rice, and mustard fields of Lucknow district in northern India, the soil beneath farmers’ feet is not...
Blood Test Doubles Cancer Detection in Dogs in Landmark Screening Study
A simple blood test can find cancer in dogs long before any outward sign of disease appears, according to the...
High-Volume Hospitals Show Sharply Lower Death Rates in Minimally Invasive Esophageal Cancer Surgery
One of the largest investigations ever conducted into minimally invasive surgery for esophageal cancer has delivered a striking verdict on...
Cryo-EM Reveals How ATP Switches Off the Human NLRP6 Inflammasome
The innate immune system is built on a paradox: the same molecular machinery that defends the body against infection can,...
Political Risk Looms Larger for Africa’s Cross-Border Power Trade
Africa’s electricity systems are entering a period in which the political risks attached to cross-border power trades are set to...
Machine Learning Meets X-Rays to Reveal the Hidden Architecture of Pea Seeds
Every seed is a masterpiece of biological engineering, a compact package in which molecular order and cellular design are woven...
Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Reshapes Liver Cancer Research, Global Analysis Reveals
Liver cancer remains one of the world’s most formidable malignancies, and a sweeping new bibliometric analysis has now mapped, with...
High-Flow Nasal Cannula Emerges as Lifeline for ALS Patients Who Cannot Tolerate Ventilation Masks
For people living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the slow failure of the muscles that control breathing is the disease’s most...
Weaker Water Bonds Boost Hydrogen Evolution on Titanium Dioxide Photocatalysts
Hydrogen produced by splitting water with sunlight has long been one of the most attractive goals in sustainable energy research,...
Brain Protein ATIP Linked to Lower Amyloid Burden in Alzheimer’s Disease
A protein once largely overlooked by neuroscientists may hold important clues to the biology of Alzheimer’s disease. In a study...
Plant Nanoparticles Deliver a Protein-Degrading Drug That Strikes Colorectal Cancer
Colorectal cancer remains one of the most lethal malignancies worldwide, with an estimated 1.9 million new cases and roughly 904,000...
USGS Grant Places New York Undergraduates in Paid Fisheries Research Internships
A United States Geological Survey grant is continuing to open the doors of fisheries research stations across New York State...