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Cigarette butts: a worldwide environmental pollution problem
Cigarette butts, long dismissed as a minor nuisance of everyday life, have now been shown to constitute one of the...
Gabapentin-loaded nano lipid gel offers new topical relief for neuropathic pain
Peripheral neuropathic pain is among the most stubborn and debilitating conditions in modern medicine, a burning, shooting, or electric-shock-like torment...
How Feed, Support, and Reductant Drive Coking in Pt–Sn Dehydrogenation Catalysts
The world’s plastics, fuels, and countless everyday chemicals begin with a deceptively simple chemical transformation: stripping hydrogen from saturated hydrocarbon...
DFT study of proton transfer and hydrogen bonding in PVA/citric acid membranes
Scientists have unveiled a detailed quantum-mechanical portrait of how phosphoric acid molecules anchor themselves inside proton-conducting polymer membranes, revealing cooperative...
Silane-engineered aerogels capture CO2 efficiently in harsh conditions
Carbon capture technologies have long faced a stubborn trade-off: sorbent materials that bind carbon dioxide strongly enough to work in...
Optimization method detects overlapping communities in software ecosystems
In the sprawling world of open-source software, developers rarely belong to just one team. A programmer contributing to a machine...
Proton therapy sustains quality of life in meningioma patients over five years
For patients with benign brain tumors, the promise of proton beam therapy lies in physics: protons deposit most of their...
Multimodal summarization generates text and retrieves relevant images
In an era when news feeds, search results, and social platforms deliver information as an inseparable blend of text and...
Know Your Risk intervention improves cancer genetics knowledge versus standard counseling
Roughly 8–10 paragraphs of flowing prose (no subheadings, no bullet points), roughly 1,400–1,600 words. Here is the article: In a...
Balanced Channel-Spatial Attention Boosts Convolutional Neural Network Performance
A team of researchers in China has developed a new attention mechanism for convolutional neural networks that promises to make...
Improving quality assurance standards in dental oncology care
Cancer therapy saves lives, but it can also leave a silent, lasting mark on one of the most vulnerable parts...
Measuring Correlogram Shape Reveals Neuronal Firing Patterns in TBI-on-a-Chip
Neuroscientists have long been able to record the electrical chatter of neurons with remarkable precision, but making sense of the...
Tracking weekly physical activity in short- and long-term childhood cancer survivors
A major new study has revealed, in unprecedented detail, exactly how childhood cancer survivors accumulate physical activity across the days...
Neurocritical Care Society Issues Seizure Prevention Guidelines for Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people worldwide survive the sudden rupture of a brain aneurysm, only to face an...
GWAS and genomic prediction reveal genes controlling tomato fruit weight
In the race to feed a warming planet, scientists have long sought to decode the genetic instructions that make some...
Study finds HmaERF87 boosts hydrangea resistance to leaf spot disease
In a discovery that could reshape how gardeners and breeders protect one of the world’s most beloved flowering shrubs, researchers...
Genetic factors drive pathogenicity of Russian wild boar Streptococcus zooepidemicus strain
In the forests of western Russia, a wild boar shot during routine wildlife monitoring has turned out to carry something...
Evolutionary algorithm reveals stable structures of gold-copper clusters
In the contested terrain of nanoscale chemistry, where a handful of atoms can rearrange themselves into thousands of possible geometries,...
Organic waterproof biobattery developed for use in mouthpieces
In a development that could reshape how we think about powering medical devices inside the human body, researchers at Tohoku...
Molecular Diagnosis of Dermatomycosis Caused by Non-Dermatophyte Fungi
Superficial fungal infections of the skin, hair, and nails—collectively known as dermatomycoses—are among the most common infectious diseases on the...