Silver nanoparticles have long been prized by chemists for their remarkable catalytic prowess, but turning that laboratory promise into a practical, large-scale technology has been...
A team of Chinese mathematicians has unveiled a comprehensive framework for a special family of error-correcting codes that could expand the toolbox available to engineers...
For decades, quantitative analysts modeling energy markets have faced an uncomfortable trade-off: either use models that are mathematically convenient but empirically wrong, or accept that...
In an era when large language models can draft essays, pass bar exams, and hold conversations that feel startlingly human, one of the most pressing...
Researchers at Politecnico di Milano have unveiled a pair of new machine learning algorithms that shrink massive datasets while keeping every feature interpretable, extending dimensionality...
Reinforcement learning has powered some of artificial intelligence’s most celebrated achievements, from mastering the ancient game of Go to sharpening the reasoning abilities of large...
Anaerobic microbial communities harvested from sanitary landfill leachate and mining wastewater may hold the key to treating one of the wine industry’s most stubborn environmental...
Dimethyl phthalate, a chemical compound found in everything from nail polish and hairspray to insect repellents, textiles and surface coatings, has long been treated as...
In a finding that is already making waves among conservation geneticists and penguin enthusiasts alike, researchers in Japan have decoded the immune-system genes of one...
Crop science is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation, and a new review published in Plant Molecular Biology argues that the change amounts to the...
Beneath the quiet canopy of cold-temperate poplar-birch forests in northern China, an invisible metabolic drama is unfolding. As secondary forests recover from disturbance and mature...
Peptide receptor radionuclide therapy has transformed the outlook for patients with metastatic neuroendocrine tumors, delivering targeted radiation to tumor cells while sparing much of the...
In one of the largest neuropathological studies of multiple sclerosis ever undertaken, researchers examining autopsy brain tissue from 287 donors have uncovered compelling evidence that...
Patients with inflammatory bowel disease have long been known to face an elevated risk of blood clots, but a new review argues that this danger...
Chemists have long been taught that iron, the workhorse metal of modern civilization, can be pushed to oxidation states of +4, +5, and +6 in...
