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Lab-Grown Meat Promises a Greener Plate but Faces Steep Hurdles, Major Review Finds
Cultured meat, once a science-fiction curiosity, has matured into one of the most closely watched frontiers in food technology, and...
Halogen Chemistry Lifts Sulfur Batteries to a Higher Voltage
Lithium-sulfur batteries have spent decades promising an energy-storage revolution that never quite arrived. On paper, the chemistry is extraordinary: sulfur...
As Populations Age, Four Disease Burdens Reshape Global Health Planning
The world is growing older at a pace without historical precedent, yet the illnesses that once defined poorer societies have...
Magnesium Oxide-Infused Chitosan Hydrogel Pulls Toxic Crystal Violet Dye from Water
Crystal violet has been dyeing fabrics, ink cartridges, and biological specimens for more than a century, but its dark purple...
RNA Architecture Drives Coronavirus Subgenomic RNA Synthesis Across Genera
Coronaviruses depend on a remarkable transcriptional strategy known as discontinuous RNA synthesis to generate the subgenomic RNAs, or sgRNAs, that...
Parkinson’s Sleep Problems Worsen Selectively Over Five Years, Finnish Study Finds
Sleep problems are among the most burdensome features of Parkinson’s disease, and a new five-year prospective study from Finland now...
New Aramid Films Matched to Extreme Environments by Co-Monomer Design
Para-aramid polymers such as poly(p-phenylene terephthalamide), better known by trade names like Kevlar, have long been celebrated for their extraordinary...
Scientists Map New Strategies to Supercharge Astaxanthin Production in Microalgae
Astaxanthin, the crimson pigment that gives salmon, shrimp and flamingos their distinctive coloration, has long been prized as one of...
Ceramic 3D Printing Comes of Age as Direct Ink Writing Moves From Lab to Factory Floor
Direct ink writing, a nozzle-based extrusion technique that squeezes concentrated ceramic pastes into self-supporting three-dimensional structures, has matured from a...
Ancient Rice Landraces Reveal Genetic Secrets of Vigorous Early Seedling Growth
Rice feeds more people than any other cereal, yet the way it is grown is changing fast. Across Asia, farmers...
Icelandic Scientists Validate a New Tool to Detect Parental Burnout
Parental burnout has quietly become one of the most consequential yet under-recognised health challenges facing modern families, and researchers in...
Nanomaterial Sensor Spots Toxic Dye at Trace Levels and Strips It from Wastewater
Synthetic dyes have become one of the most stubborn pollutants of the modern water cycle. An estimated 10 to 15...
Environmental Stress May Have Loosened DNA Repair Rules on the Y Chromosome
A provocative new hypothesis published in the open-access journal Epigenetics Communications proposes that prolonged environmental stress in the ancient southern...
Grass Extract Blocks Chloride Corrosion in Duplex Stainless Steel
A humble grass that grows wild in the alluvial soils of northern India may soon help protect the steel pipelines...
New LC–MS/MS Method Tracks 18 Anthelmintic Residues in Meat and Seafood
Every year, livestock and farmed fish around the world receive billions of doses of anthelmintics, the drugs that rid animals...
Interventional Oncology 2030: AI, Hybrid Suites and the Next Generation
Interventional oncology stands at a decisive moment in its history, and one of its most distinguished voices has now mapped...
Dental Teams Fall Short on Life-Saving CPR Skills, New Study Warns
A cardiac arrest can strike anyone, anywhere, including the sterile calm of a dental chair. When it does, the first...
Toxic Effluent in Nigeria’s Ebonyi State Threatens Rivers, Rice and Food Security
Industrial and municipal wastewater flowing untreated into rivers around Abakaliki, the capital of Ebonyi State in south-eastern Nigeria, has reached...
CRISPR and Surrogate Broodstock Push Aquaculture Toward Programmable Monosex and Sterile Fish
Aquaculture now supplies more than half of the seafood consumed worldwide, yet the industry still struggles with one of biology’s...
Blow-Spun PVDF–Clay Nanofiber Membranes Strip Lead and Copper From Water
Heavy metal contamination of rivers, groundwater, and industrial effluents remains one of the most stubborn environmental problems of the modern...