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Unexpected findings reveal new insights into cannabis’s impact on heart health
A randomized clinical trial has produced a surprising finding about cannabis and the heart: habitual users experienced approximately 9% fewer...
Arizona Water Imports Compared: Sea of Cortez Desalination vs Atmospheric Water Harvesting
Arizona’s water future may hinge on a choice between two radically different ways of importing moisture into one of the...
Solving the Puzzle of Early Acute Kidney Injury After Pediatric Heart Surgery
Acute kidney injury is one of the most common and consequential complications faced by children after heart surgery, yet it...
Dresden Researchers Unveil Open-Source Tool Automating Lipid Data Integration
LipidLibrarian Brings the Fragmented World of Lipid Data Into One Open Platform For decades, lipid researchers have faced a deceptively...
Nature’s Original Bioplastic Doubles as Food for Animals
A tiny marine worm with no mouth, gut, or anus has helped overturn a long-standing assumption about how animals obtain...
Liver injury calls to poison centers surge nearly 400%
Calls to U.S. poison centers involving liver injuries linked to medications, supplements, alcohol and other foreign substances increased nearly fourfold...
Teaching AI Antibody Biology Accelerates Drug Discovery
Antibody medicines are often discovered by searching through an overwhelming biological library. Researchers may begin with millions or even billions...
New framework measures equitable access to metropolitan green space across scales
Across the world’s largest cities, a quiet competition is unfolding over one of the most valuable resources in urban life:...
Child Brain Tumor Survivors Face Acute Kidney Injury During Treatment
A child may survive a brain tumor and still face a second, less visible threat from the treatment itself: acute...
Parkinson’s Disease Effort-Reward Decisions Disrupted by Impaired Effort Perception, Not Reward Sensitivity
Parkinson’s disease may alter one of the brain’s most fundamental calculations: whether an action is worth the effort it demands....
Layering atoms offers a new blueprint for designing three-dimensional quantum materials
Atomic layers are rewriting the design rules of three-dimensional quantum matter. In a study of tantalum disulfide, or TaS₂, researchers...
CHOP researchers uncover genetic differences between pediatric and adult immune-mediated inflammatory diseases
Philadelphia researchers have uncovered evidence that immune-mediated inflammatory diseases beginning in childhood are not simply younger versions of the same...
Molten salts enhance Fe–N–C catalysts, boosting zinc–air battery performance
A new catalyst made from iron, nitrogen and carbon has achieved a performance milestone that could help reduce the dependence...
Study reveals how the liver’s internal clock may shape metabolism
A Daily Liver Clock May Tell the Body When to Burn Fat The liver may not simply release metabolic signals...
ECU researchers uncover hidden potential for green hydrogen production
Western Australia’s Iron-Rich Rocks Could Become an Underground Hydrogen Factory Beneath the red earth of Western Australia, a mineral best...
Surgical Trainees Report Experiences of Identity-Related Vigilance
Surgical training is often described as a test of technical precision, stamina, and decision-making under pressure. A qualitative study published...
U.S. Public Institutions Driving Cleantech Commercialization
The race to build a clean-energy economy is often described as a contest between laboratories, startups and investors. A new...
AI-Enhanced CRISPR/Cas12a Biosensor Identifies Biomarkers for Neurodegenerative Movement Disorders
Neurodegenerative movement disorders often begin quietly. A slight change in gait, a tremor that appears only under stress, or a...
New Battery Design Promises Safer, Repairable, More Sustainable Electric Vehicles
Electric-vehicle batteries are often described as the heart of the car, but researchers are increasingly focusing on another question: how...
Non-US-Born Physicians Form Major Share of US Internal Medicine Workforce
A new cross-sectional study published in JAMA highlights the central role of non-US-born physicians in sustaining the nation’s internal medicine...