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Water utilities live and die by the forecast. When a crew opens a valve or takes a pipe offline for...

A devastating bacterial pathogen that travels inside the bodies of tiny psyllid insects has long puzzled plant scientists: two closely...

Pediatric radiology is, by almost any measure, deeply meaningful work. Radiologists, technologists, nurses, and child life specialists spend their careers...

A centuries-old plant alkaloid best known for lowering blood sugar may have another, far more ambitious role: slowing the aging...

For decades, the central obstacle to curing HIV infection has been the viral reservoir: a small population of cells carrying...

Generative artificial intelligence has become so convincing that the line between what people create and what machines produce is increasingly...

Maize is one of the hungriest crops on the planet, demanding enormous quantities of nitrogen fertilizer to fill its kernels...

A team of researchers at Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center has unveiled a new computational framework that captures how tumor-infiltrating...

Bladder cancer remains one of the most challenging malignancies in modern urology, and a newly published comprehensive review in the...

Every cell in the brain carries essentially the same genome, yet the same gene can produce a startling variety of...

Fuel cells promise a clean energy future, but a tiny molecule has long stood in their way. Carbon monoxide, or...

There is a moment, familiar to anyone who has dropped a quail egg into boiling water, when a humble ingredient...

Prostate cancer remains one of the most commonly diagnosed malignancies in the world, and a new large-scale analysis from Brazil...

Hypoxia-inducible factor 1 alpha, or HIF1α, has long been celebrated as the master switch that allows cells to sense and...

Scientists in Brazil have found a remarkably simple way to supercharge a catalyst that converts carbon dioxide into useful chemicals:...

A coating built from red seaweed could soon replace one of medicine’s most indispensable yet most fragile ingredients. In a...

Software has an odor problem, at least metaphorically. So-called code smells—structural weaknesses such as oversized classes, duplicated logic, and tangled...

Few plants embody the paradox of modern agriculture quite like Chenopodium album L., the ubiquitous annual known to farmers as...

Hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common form of primary liver cancer, remains one of the world’s most lethal malignancies, and its...

Influenza has long been one of medicine’s most stubborn adversaries, not because the virus cannot be countered, but because it...