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Fruit-feeding butterfly diversity varies by height and season in dry forest
In the dry, thorny forests of northeastern Brazil, the story of butterfly diversity has just gained a striking new chapter....
Body Project program shows promise for preventing eating disorders in Portuguese women
Eating disorders remain among the most psychologically devastating and costly mental health conditions affecting young women worldwide, and a growing...
Glucose-Lowering Drugs and Brain Health: Mechanisms, Evidence, and Future Directions
Scientists are taking a hard look at whether the world’s most widely prescribed diabetes medications could do far more than...
Advanced cancer patients face distress and conflict when consenting to treatment
The moment a patient with advanced cancer signs a consent form, the law assumes a rational actor weighing risks and...
Barriers, facilitators, and motives for medical research in a developing country
A new study from Iran’s largest academic medical center offers a rare, quantified look at why clinicians in developing countries...
Single-marker method quantifies seven glycosides in prepared Rehmannia root
Scientists in China have unveiled a streamlined analytical strategy that could reshape how one of traditional Chinese medicine’s most important...
Uric acid and cholesterol ratio show different pathways to diabetes risk
A routine pair of blood tests—one measuring uric acid, the other a cholesterol ratio few patients have ever heard of—may...
Review Highlights Key Strategies for Managing Saline Soils
Salt is quietly swallowing the world’s farmland, and a sweeping new review argues that the fight against it will decide...
Chromium Trade-Off Revealed: Stronger Corrosion Shield, Softer Alloy in High-Entropy Metal
High-entropy alloys have long promised a new era of metals designed not around one dominant element, but around the deliberate...
Green-synthesised silver and gold nanoparticles alter broccoli germination and biochemistry
In a development that could reshape how farmers think about seed treatments, researchers in India have shown that a single...
Selenium-Enriched Yeast Offers a Powerful Antioxidant Shield for Stressed Pigs
Modern pig farming is a high-performance enterprise, and that performance comes at a physiological price. Highly productive, fast-growing genetics, early...
Machine learning accelerates drug repurposing against Nipah virus with computational validation
The Nipah virus, one of the deadliest pathogens on the World Health Organization’s priority list, has long haunted public health...
Sangsang yak genome reveals distinct evolutionary path from other yaks
The iconic yaks of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau have long been studied as a single hardy species adapted to life at...
Only One in Six Emergency Patients Reach Hospital by Ambulance in Conflict-Hit Ethiopia
In the rolling highlands of Northwest Ethiopia, where a single ambulance may serve tens of thousands of people scattered across...
A total infectome framework for resolving complex disease etiology in aquaculture
Grass carp, one of the most economically important freshwater aquaculture species in the world, has been plagued since 2019 by...
Sleep Drug Switch Offers New Hope for Tapering Off Risky Insomnia Medications
For millions of people with chronic insomnia, the nightly ritual of swallowing a benzodiazepine or a related sleeping pill has...
Simple Equations Map How Much Water Punjab Soils Can Hold
A handful of soil can tell a remarkable story. Squeeze it, weigh it, dry it in an oven, and the...
AI anxiety, worry, and burnout fluctuate together in medical students daily
Artificial intelligence is moving into hospitals, clinics, and classrooms at a pace that few predicted a decade ago, and the...
Blow-Spun PVDF Nanofiber Mats Get Strength Boost From Clay Up to a Critical Limit
Researchers in Brazil have shown that a fast, low-cost fiber fabrication technique can turn a common fluoropolymer into tough, water-repellent...
Building Belonging: A Multidimensional Mentoring Program for URiM Residents
Mentorship has long been recognized as one of the most powerful predictors of a physician’s professional trajectory, shaping everything from...