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Chloride-Rich Electrolyte Powers a High-Voltage Lithium–Sulfur Battery Breakthrough
Rechargeable lithium–sulfur batteries have long been heralded as one of the most promising routes beyond the limits of conventional lithium-ion...
Intensive Care Survivors Face Long-Term Disability as Evidence on Rehabilitation Falls Short
Survival from critical illness has never been better, yet a growing body of evidence shows that many patients who leave...
Autophagy Protein AMBRA1 Unlocks NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation
The NLRP3 inflammasome has long been one of immunology’s most consequential and most guarded molecular machines. Sitting inside macrophages and...
Quantum Geometry and Teleportation Bound Together in a Two-Spin System
A team of quantum physicists in Morocco has revealed that the strange geometry underlying quantum states and the efficiency of...
Hard Tap Water Linked to Higher Cancer Mortality in Half-Million-Person Study
For decades, the hardness of the water flowing from household taps has been the subject of a persistent and often...
Cryo-EM Captures Hidden Pre-Active State That Switches On the Brain’s Fastest Receptors
For decades, neuroscientists have marveled at the sheer speed of communication in the brain, and much of that speed depends...
Two Decades of Wikipedia Research Reveal a Fractured Field Shaped by Big Data and AI
Wikipedia has spent more than twenty years as one of the most intensively studied organizations on the planet, with over...
Gene Therapy Shows Durable Power Against Blinding Retinal Disease, Major Analysis Finds
Millions of people with blinding retinal diseases face a treatment regimen that never truly ends: monthly or near-monthly injections of...
Late Menopause Linked to 48% Higher Risk of Metabolic Multimorbidity in Chinese Women
For decades, women who reached menopause later in life were often told the news was largely good: a longer exposure...
AI Framework Turns Blood Protein Data Into Ageing Drug Target Hypotheses
Scientists have unveiled a new computational framework that transforms the protein signatures circulating in human blood into concrete, testable hypotheses...
Potassium Nickel Hydride Emerges as a Room-Temperature Hydrogen Storage Contender
Hydrogen has long been heralded as the clean fuel of the future, yet the practical challenge of storing it safely,...
Ruxolitinib Shows Stronger Response in Primary Than Secondary HLH, Meta-Analysis Finds
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis is one of the most feared syndromes in medicine, a runaway immune firestorm in which the body’s own...
Rare Gene Variants May Explain Why Some Brains Are More Vulnerable to Concussion
Why does a seemingly minor knock to the head leave one person with a headache that fades within days, while...
Mitochondrial Membrane Fats Hold Steady as Brain Cells Transform
Deep inside every developing brain cell, its mitochondria are quietly holding their ground while everything around them changes. A new...
Flat Gradients Make Fake Users Deadlier: Smarter Attacks Expose Recommender Vulnerabilities
Recommendation systems quietly shape much of modern digital life, deciding which films appear on a streaming homepage, which restaurants surface...
New Gene Therapy Approach Transforms Scar-Forming Astrocytes Into Working Motor Neurons
Scientists have reported a new strategy for coaxing one of the brain’s most stubborn cell types to change its identity...
Hidden Histone Mutations May Trick Doctors Diagnosing Deadly Childhood Brain Tumors
A rare and subtle combination of mutations in the tail of histone H3 may be quietly undermining the way pathologists...
Maize Pan-Genome Reveals Hidden Diversity in Stress-Responsive 4CL Gene Family
Maize is one of the most consequential crops on the planet, feeding billions of people and anchoring agricultural economies across...
AI Learns to Read Fuzzy Bone Scans and Write Radiology Reports
Medical images are often difficult to read, but few imaging modalities test the limits of human and machine perception quite...
Hidden Protein Modification Lets Pancreatic Cancer Evade Ferroptosis and Resist Chemotherapy
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma remains one of the deadliest human malignancies, and its stubborn resistance to chemotherapy has long been attributed...