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Hybrid Concrete-and-Cemented-Soil Piles Tame Deep Soft Soils Beneath Highway Embankments
Beneath the endless ribbons of highway that cross China’s eastern coastal plains lies a problem as old as civil engineering...
Potato Varieties That Stay Ready: Basal Defence Genes Separate Blight Fighters From Blight Losers
Potato late blight, the disease behind the Irish potato famine, remains the most damaging pathogen of the world’s third most...
Beyond KRAS G12C: New Drug Wave Targets Once-Undruggable Cancer Driver
KRAS has long been the most notorious villain in cancer genetics. The gene, formally known as Kirsten rat sarcoma viral...
Machine Learning Map Reveals Hidden Paralog Vulnerabilities Across 1,005 Cancer Cell Lines
Cancer cells are masters of redundancy, and one of their most effective tricks is hiding lethal weaknesses behind duplicate genes....
Microalgae Turn Tannery Wastewater Into Clean Water and Valuable Fatty Acids
Tannery wastewater is among the most stubborn industrial effluents to treat. Each tonne of processed hide can generate roughly 30...
Gut Microbes and Metabolites Reveal Distinct Signatures Across Chronic Liver Diseases
Chronic liver disease remains one of the most burdensome health challenges worldwide, encompassing a spectrum of conditions that damage the...
When Smoke Meets the Ballot Box: Wildfires Reshape Political Participation in Africa
Wildfires are usually discussed in the language of ecology and climate science: hectares burned, forests lost, carbon released, lives displaced....
Sun-Drying and Steaming Reshape Polysaccharides in Ehretia macrophylla Fruit
Traditional food processing is often celebrated for its flavors, but a growing body of research shows it can quietly rewrite...
ATR Inhibitors Supercharge Bladder Cancer Chemotherapy in Patient-Derived Organoids
Non-muscle invasive bladder cancer is one of the most common cancers in the developed world, and although it is caught...
When Tumors Return May Predict Survival in Metastatic GIST
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors, or GISTs, are the most common mesenchymal tumors of the digestive tract, representing roughly one to two...
Duplicated Energy Genes Reveal How Fish Mitochondria Evolved After Genome Doubling
Every heartbeat, every twitch of a fin, and every dividing cell in a fish embryo depends on a molecular machine...
AI Learns to Predict the Violent Splashdown of Cross-Medium Vehicles
When a high-speed vehicle slams into the surface of the ocean, the transition from air to water is one of...
Genebank Goldmine Yields New Wheat Defenses Against Devastating Rust Diseases
Wheat feeds roughly a third of humanity, yet its harvests are under constant siege from two fungal foes: leaf rust,...
Velocity Sensors and Load–Velocity Profiles Hold Up Under Scrutiny, Review Finds
Strength coaches and athletes have increasingly turned to velocity-based training, a method in which the speed of a barbell is...
Shaken, Not Heated: Piezoelectric Nanofibers Supercharge Hydrogen Fuel Production
Hydrogen has long been heralded as the clean fuel of the future, but the practical challenge of carrying it safely...
Hidden Fat Inside Thigh Muscles Predicts Early Death and Disease Across the Body
A shadow epidemic may be unfolding inside the muscles of millions of people who appear perfectly healthy on the bathroom...
Bendy Missiles: New Study Reveals How Flexibility Shapes Supersonic Flight Stability
Modern supersonic missiles and launch vehicles are engineered to be extraordinarily slender, a design choice that slices through aerodynamic drag...
Flax Varieties React Differently to Sowing Density in Kazakhstan’s Harsh Continental Climate
Oil flax has quietly become one of the most strategically important crops on the Eurasian steppe, prized both for its...
Muscle Weakness Before Cancer Diagnosis: Rare Case Links Myopathy to Burkitt Lymphoma
A 42-year-old Iranian man walked into Namazi Hospital in Shiraz in March 2023 with a complaint that seemed, at first,...
New 7S Framework Aims to Unify How Science Judges Data Credibility
Every number that enters a scientific argument arrives by one of three routes. It is either measured directly with an...