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Hybrid Deep Reconstruction Enables Vignetting-Free Upconversion Imaging Through Scattering
A new study reports a “hybrid deep reconstruction” pipeline that aims to restore high-contrast optical images even when signals are...
Balancing Innovation and Validation in Neurobehavioral Assessment Methods
A new Pediatrics Research paper is igniting debate about how clinicians should introduce neurobehavioral tests without sacrificing scientific rigor. In...
Neuroprognostication for Extremely Preterm Infants: Prognosis Under Uncertainty
At the extreme edge of viability, physicians face one of neonatology’s toughest problems: predicting how a baby’s brain will develop...
Thin Films Adaptively Move on Substrates That Are No Longer Inert
Thin-film electronics are everywhere, powering everything from phones to solar panels. In most designs, a conductive thin layer is paired...
High-Throughput Chip Delivers Full-Frequency Encoded Illumination Super-Resolution Imaging
A new study introduces a high-throughput super-resolution imaging chip that packs advanced microscopy into a compact, on-chip platform. The work,...
AI Redesigns Starting Conditions to Improve Protein Evolution Outcomes
AI-designed protein redesigns are shown to reshape the rules of evolution in a new Nature study, offering a “boosted starting...
Gate-Tunable Mid-Infrared Electroluminescence via Te/MoS2 p-n Heterojunctions
A new study is turning heads in the mid-infrared electronics community by demonstrating gate-tunable electroluminescence from a tellurium/molybdenum disulfide (Te/MoS₂)...
Emerging Capitalism and Cultural Niche Building in Early Modern Greece
A new study of early modern Greece suggests that capitalism did not arrive as a sudden external shock. Instead, it...
Immunogenicity and Safety of BNT162b2 in Juvenile Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Disease Patients
A new phase of COVID-19 vaccine evaluation is underway for a group often underrepresented in clinical trials: children and adolescents...
Hidden Patterns of Urban Mixing Uncovered in Five Global Cities
Cities are often discussed as mosaics of cultures, but a new study suggests their real mixing is far more patterned—and...
Seed-Assisted Polarity Control Enables Flexible WSe2 Transistors and CMOS Inverter
A team of researchers has unveiled a manufacturing-friendly strategy for controlling the electrical polarity of flexible WSe₂ (tungsten diselenide) transistors—an...
ONR Unveils 2026 Science and Technology Strategy for Navy and Marine Corps
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has unveiled a new Science and Technology (S&T) Strategy designed as a roadmap for...
Quasi Two-Stage Heat Pump Enables Efficient Dual-Temperature Heating and Hot Water
A new study published in Communications Engineering reports a quasi-two-stage heat pump designed to tackle a stubborn energy problem: how...
Sliding Metasurface Achieves Wide-Angle Beam Steering with Sharp Frequency Filtering
A new study published in Light: Science & Applications reports a “sliding metasurface” design that enables wide-angle beam steering while...
Energy use from food consumption can reveal poverty in rural Chinese homes
A new study in Nature Communications suggests that the way rural households in China spend energy on food—rather than total...
Mental Disorder-Related Deaths Among U.S. Adolescents Rise, 1999–2023
Mental health conditions are a persistent source of adolescent illness and early death, but national-scale, long-term mortality patterns have remained...
Unequal Geographic Access to Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care in Accra
A new study in Nature Cities has mapped how where you live in Greater Accra can determine whether you reach...
Deformation-Stabilized Flexible Receive Coil Enables High-Fidelity Static and Dynamic MRI
A team led by Li and colleagues has unveiled a flexible MRI receive coil engineered to stay mechanically stable while...
Wearable ring monitors glucose and ketones in sweat simultaneously
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have built what they describe as a first-of-its-kind integrated smart ring designed...
Potassium Approaches Plasmonics’ Low Optical Loss Limit
Potassium is stepping into the spotlight as researchers report a new route toward the elusive low-loss performance limit in plasmonics....