Technology
Common plant-derived chemical may threaten aquatic ecosystems, scientists warn
Pyrogallol, a naturally occurring chemical with applications ranging from photography and dye production to pharmaceuticals and metal processing, may deserve...
Variation within species drives tropical forests’ resistance to drought
Forests are often portrayed as collections of distinct species, each with a relatively fixed set of biological characteristics. But a...
Data artefacts may partly explain the observed decline in disruption
A new study in Nature is challenging a conclusion that has become increasingly common across science and technology: that disruptive...
Rice researchers show graphene nanowrinkles can reshape electrical behavior
Rice University researchers have shown that wrinkles only a few atoms wide can transform graphene from a nearly flat sheet...
Tunable Polymers Enable Organ-Selective RNA Delivery Using Polymer–Lipid Hybrid Nanoparticles
RNA medicines are moving rapidly from experimental therapies toward practical treatments, but one of the field’s biggest obstacles remains the...
Dataset artifacts may partly explain the measured decline in disruptions
A debate over whether modern science and technology are becoming less disruptive has entered a new phase, with researchers arguing...
Teaching Robots Universal Grasping Through Contact Learning in Cluttered Real-World Environments
A new robotic grasping system has demonstrated a striking ability to move between radically different robot hands without being retrained...
New Generative Models Predict Transition States in Unseen Chemical Reactions
Chemical reactions are decided at a fleeting point that molecules occupy only for an instant: the transition state. It is...
Multiple Myeloma Cell Lines Reveal Clonal Heterogeneity Across One Patient’s Disease Course
Multiple myeloma has long challenged researchers with a deceptively simple problem: the disease may be diagnosed in one patient, yet...
Model-Free Multiparametric SHG Imaging Reveals Collagen Signatures of Breast Cancer
Breast tumors do not grow in isolation. They develop within a complex structural environment known as the tumor microenvironment, where...
Generative AI Boosts Corporate ESG Performance: Evidence from China
Generative artificial intelligence is moving from experimental chatbots into the core operations of major companies, and a new study is...
Finer grains help sodium-ion batteries resist hidden cracking
A new study suggests that one of the most persistent problems facing sodium-ion batteries may be solved not by changing...
China’s Spatial Networks Reveal Growing Synergy Between Digital Finance and Urban-Rural Integration
China’s digital-finance revolution is increasingly being examined not only as a story of mobile payments and online banking, but also...
Butterfly-inspired smart propulsion could power future robots
Researchers at the University of Stuttgart and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research have developed miniature ceramic structures...
BBCube Chip-on-Wafer Technology Advances Next-Generation AI Chip Integration
Artificial intelligence is pushing semiconductor technology toward a physical limit: the more computing power engineers pack into a system, the...
Bifidobacterium Synbiotic Found Safe and Well-Tolerated, May Improve Digestion in Young Children
A new study is putting one of the earliest interventions in human health under the microscope: a synbiotic designed to...
Cement Plants Could Help Remove CO₂ From the Atmosphere
Cement could become more than a symbol of construction. In a new study, researchers at ETH Zurich report that cement...
Soft Robotic Cardiac Sleeves: Engineering Challenges and Clinical Translation for Heart Failure
Heart failure has long been treated as a problem of chemistry, electricity and plumbing: drugs reduce the strain on the...
Chinese Medical Journal review examines AI’s role in inflammatory bowel disease management
Artificial intelligence is moving deeper into the world of inflammatory bowel disease, where the sheer complexity of patient data has...
Self-Healing, Electrically Polarized Hydrogel Advances Biomedical Technology
Researchers in Japan and Germany have created a self-healing hydrogel whose internal architecture is so precisely organized that it resembles...