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Multiancestry Alzheimer’s risk score links cognitive decline and neuropathology across populations
Alzheimer’s disease research is entering a phase in which inherited risk is being measured across populations rather than inferred primarily...
Ordered ultra-dense intermetallic nanocrystals extend heavy-duty fuel-cell projected lifespan beyond 240,000 hours
Proton-exchange membrane fuel cells could be one step closer to powering heavy-duty trucks, buses and other demanding vehicles for hundreds...
EZH2–SREBP2 Pathway Drives Cholesterol Production, Revealing a Noncanonical Cancer Vulnerability
Cancer cells may be exploiting a hidden partnership between gene regulation and cholesterol production, according to a study that identifies...
Temperature shapes how birds respond to changing forest cover
A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution is drawing attention to a deceptively simple question with major consequences for conservation:...
India’s New Pearl Millet Hybrid Targets Drought-Prone Farming Regions
A new pearl millet hybrid named RHB 273 has been reported for drought-prone agricultural conditions in India, drawing attention to...
Peyer’s patch M cells sustain epithelial group 3 innate lymphoid cells, IL-22
Peyer’s patches, the immune outposts embedded in the lining of the small intestine, may be more than passive sentinels waiting...
Dengue Burden Among Children Across Eight Endemic Asian and Latin American Countries
Dengue is often described as a mosquito-borne viral disease, but for children living in tropical and subtropical regions, that description...
Electric Fields Control Coherent Ferron Oscillations
For decades, scientists have searched for practical ways to control collective quantum behavior with the speed of light and the...
REDCAT Enables All-Optical Multimodal Mapping of Metabolism in Specific Cell Types
A new research paper introduces a method for watching metabolism at the level of individual cell types without relying on...
Ultrahigh-Ratio Drawing During Spinning Produces Strong, Thermally Conductive Graphene Fibres
Graphene has long been celebrated as one of the most extraordinary materials ever discovered, combining exceptional mechanical strength, electrical conductivity...
Self-Assembling Peptides Create α-Helical Nanopores for Ultrasensitive Biomarker Profiling
A new study reported in Nature Nanotechnology describes a peptide that spontaneously assembles into α-helical nanopores, creating a molecular-scale platform...
A Raspberry Pi Lab Brings Real-World Networking Protocols Within Student Reach
Postgraduate students studying wireless networking can now experiment with real protocol implementations without modifying an operating-system kernel, according to research...
Fluid Dynamics and Crystallization Control Enable Air-Processed, Fully Screen-Printed Perovskite Solar Cells
Perovskite solar cells have long promised a cheaper, more versatile alternative to conventional silicon photovoltaics, yet the manufacturing methods needed...
Universal Pipeline Enables High-Resolution GPCR Structure Determination
G protein-coupled receptors, or GPCRs, sit at the crossroads of biology and medicine. Embedded in cell membranes, these molecular sensors...
Photonic Computing Operates Entirely In Memory
For decades, the most elusive goal in artificial intelligence has been to reproduce one of the brain’s defining tricks: computing...
Scientists synthesize Z-allylamines using masked alkenyl anions from alkynyl tetracoordinate boron compounds
Chemists have reported a new way to build stereodefined allylamines, a class of molecules that sits at the intersection of...
How Linear and Nonlinear Time Warping Affect Time-Series Classification Robustness
A new study suggests that the way researchers create “in-between” examples for testing artificial intelligence can fundamentally change their conclusions...
AGI-Powered Affective Computing Across Cyber-Physical-Social-Intelligent Systems: Framework, Methods, Applications and Outlook
Emotions are not confined to the human body or to the private workings of the mind. A racing heartbeat can...
Multi-Sensor Time Series Enable Big Data Pavement Monitoring and Anomaly Detection
A new artificial-intelligence system could help road agencies detect pavement damage before it becomes visible to the human eye, by...
Targeting METTL3/m6A/SOCS3 Reprograms Macrophages, Boosting Anti-PD-1 Therapy in Multiple Myeloma
Multiple myeloma may be vulnerable to an unexpected form of immune-system engineering: changing the behavior of the macrophages that surround...