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Open dataset helps Europe redesign buildings for a vanished climate
Europe’s buildings are being designed with weather data that may already belong to the past. Engineers commonly rely on Typical...
Purdue compounds shown to stimulate powerful antitumor immune responses
Researchers at Purdue University have developed a small-molecule compound that could open a new route toward cancer immunotherapy by targeting...
Physicists Recreate Collision That Sent a Black Hole Racing Through Space
A Supermassive Black Hole May Be Escaping Its Galaxy at 1,000 Kilometers per Second Astronomers have identified compelling evidence that...
Continuing Inhaled Steroids Early in Pregnancy Doesn’t Worsen Outcomes in Asthma
Asthma treatment during pregnancy is often shaped by a difficult calculation: patients and clinicians must weigh the risks of medication...
Nanoparticles help rice increase yields without sacrificing grain quality
Rice farmers may soon have a new tool for improving both harvests and the quality of the grain on the...
RAS Rewires Ribosomes, Reshaping How Cells Read the Genetic Code
Cancer cells may be able to reprogram more than gene activity and signaling networks. A study led by researchers at...
Cancer-associated fibroblast SERPINH1 drives epithelial-mesenchymal transition in clear cell kidney cancer
Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is the most common form of kidney cancer and remains difficult to control once...
Genomic analysis reveals how SARS-CoV-2 entered and spread across Georgia
The movement of SARS-CoV-2 across borders and through communities has left a genetic record in the virus’s genome. A study...
Mental Health Discussions Common in Publicly Available Generative AI Conversations
Adolescents Are Turning to AI Chatbots for Mental Health Conversations, New Study Examines Artificial intelligence chatbots are becoming an unexpected...
China’s National, Regional Lifetime Risks of Digestive Cancer Development and Death
China is entering a new phase of its cancer epidemic, and a large-scale analysis of global disease data suggests that...
SUTD, A*STAR IME Researchers Achieve Wafer-Scale Broadband Light Generation via Heavier Isotope
A research team in Singapore has developed a silicon nitride waveguide that can transform a narrow infrared laser pulse into...
One policy lever could tackle India’s fertilizer pollution and groundwater depletion
A new study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research...
Study finds patients’ writing style may influence whether doctors respond
Patient portal messages are often presented as a direct line between patients and their doctors. In practice, however, a message...
Young Survivors Face Lifelong Risk of New Aneurysms After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
A long-term study of young survivors of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage has found that the risk of developing a new brain...
No Sensorimotor Toxicity Observed with Clinical SMN Cassette in scAAV9
A new study in Nature Neuroscience reports that a clinical expression cassette designed to restore production of survival motor neuron,...
Soil Microbes Commonly Depend on Metabolite Cross-Feeding
Soil bacteria may be far less self-sufficient than scientists have traditionally assumed. A large study of nearly 7,000 bacterial isolates...
Pilot study links prenatal workplace exposure to quaternary ammonium compounds with birthweight
A newborn’s first stool may be carrying a chemical record of the pregnancy. In a pilot study published in the...
Seven-Day Korean Study Reveals How Biomonitoring Tracks Phthalate and Alternative Plasticizer Exposure
Plastic exposure may be far more changeable from one day to the next than a single urine sample can reveal,...
Blocking KDM5A/B boosts antitumor immune responses in HHV-8-positive B-cell lymphomas
Zhou, Fiches, Wu and colleagues report that blocking the chromatin-regulating enzymes KDM5A and KDM5B can strengthen antitumor innate immune responses...
Melamine-Based Carbon Nitride Promises to Remove Common Pharmaceuticals from Water
A seemingly small choice at the beginning of a materials-production process may determine how effectively a promising water-treatment catalyst works,...