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Fuzzy AHP and bow-tie analysis prioritize risks at Ethiopia’s largest urban dumpsite
Ethiopia’s Giant Open Dump Has a Hidden Risk Map—and Water Pollution Tops It Every day, roughly 3,000 tonnes of municipal...
Smart Greenhouse Uses Multi-Sensor Fusion and Genetic Algorithm-Optimized Fuzzy Control
Controlled-environment agriculture may be entering a new phase in which greenhouses do more than measure their surroundings: they continuously interpret...
PhaseOM Unifies Phase-Separation Analysis and Key-Residue Detection in One Framework
Liquid–liquid phase separation, the process by which molecules spontaneously condense into concentrated droplets without a surrounding membrane, has become one...
8-Bit Nonvolatile Plasmonic Memory Enables Synaptic Weighting in Optical Neuromorphic Systems
A proposed plasmonic memory cell could give optical neural networks a remarkably compact way to store and adjust information, combining...
LDH@ZnS Quantum Dots and Flower-Like ZnO Enhance Dithizone Photocatalytic Degradation
A newly engineered photocatalyst has achieved complete laboratory removal of dithizone from contaminated water in just 21 minutes, dramatically outpacing...
Adaptive References Magnify Deviations in Complex Edge Structures
A new computer-vision technique could make hidden vibrations and subtle shape changes visible in objects whose boundaries are too complex...
River and lake swimming linked to stomach bugs and skin rashes
Open-water swimming is often presented as a way to reconnect with nature, improve fitness and support mental health. Yet a...
Scientists Discover Hidden Cell Type Shielding Lung Cancer
Researchers at Columbia University have identified a previously unknown fibroblast population that appears to help lung tumors evade the immune...
Stepwise evaporation method cuts transistor contact resistance, researchers report
A new evaporation technique could change the way the smallest transistors are built by allowing researchers to place highly ordered,...
Global warming is intensifying eastern Pacific El Niño variability
El Niño may be entering a more volatile era. A millennium-long reconstruction built from Galápagos corals indicates that variability in...
Study Links Obesity to Increased Cardiovascular Disease Risk
Obesity is no longer viewed simply as a condition of excess body weight. It is increasingly understood as a complex...
Thousands of New Mothers Experience Undiagnosed PTSD After Childbirth
A substantial number of women may be developing post-traumatic stress disorder after childbirth without being identified or receiving appropriate treatment,...
Multimodal Nanotechnology and Standardized Nursing Management Applied to Ventricular Arrhythmia
Tiny Nanoparticles Could Transform the Fight Against Deadly Ventricular Arrhythmias Ventricular fibrillation and other ventricular arrhythmias can turn a heartbeat...
Study Maps Prostate Cancer Patterns Across Malaria-Endemic Regions of Sub-Saharan Africa
A large-scale review of prostate cancer in sub-Saharan Africa has found a substantial and often aggressive disease burden across the...
Primate-Specific Control of UGCG, the Human Glycosphingolipid Gatekeeper
Glycosphingolipids may be tiny components of cell membranes, but they help govern some of biology’s most consequential decisions: how cells...
PAX-Regulated Cell Polarity Self-Organizes Procambial Strands in Developing Plants
Plants do not build their vascular systems as randomly distributed pipes. Inside developing roots, stems and leaves, cells are arranged...
Autodissemination stations curb Aedes notoscriptus and Buruli ulcer risk in urban Australia
A new randomized controlled field trial in urban Australia has put mosquito control at the center of an unexpected public-health...
Label-Free Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis Enhanced by Two-Photon Autofluorescence and Joint Image Processing
Ovarian cancer may soon be examined through a new kind of microscope that relies on the natural light-emitting properties of...
Programmable Light-Driven Cyclization of Acyclic 1,5-Dienes Creates Rigid Bicyclic Structures
A new study in Nature Chemistry describes a light-driven chemical strategy that could give researchers unusually precise control over the...
Physics-Based Model Predicts Velocity- and Acceleration-Dependent Damping in Adjustable Shock Absorbers
A new study is drawing attention to one of the least visible but most important components in modern vehicles: the...