New study overturns earlier findings on how plants recover from drought
A sunflower may look recovered after a drought, but inside its stem and leaves, the damage can remain permanently etched into the plant’s water-transport system....
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Derepressed Endogenous Retroviruses Activate Microglia, Driving Inflammation and Cellular Senescence
A dormant viral legacy embedded in the human genome may be helping to push the brain’s immune cells toward chronic inflammation and cellular aging, according...
UMass Amherst engineers boost edge AI efficiency by redesigning algorithms and hardware
Artificial intelligence is moving off the cloud and onto the devices people use every day, but that shift comes with a stubborn engineering problem: edge...
Daily Sugary Drink Consumption Linked to Higher Stomach Cancer Risk
A daily sugar-sweetened beverage may be doing more than adding calories to the diet: it may also be linked to a substantially higher risk of...
Labrador Sea Helps Supply Oxygen Supporting Life in the Deep North Atlantic
ITHACA, N.Y. — A region of the North Atlantic often treated as a supporting player in the ocean’s vast circulation system may in fact be...
Scientists discover brain mechanism that switches off chronic pain
At the base of the brain, a small but powerful cluster of nerve cells may hold the key to developing more precise treatments for chronic...
Scientists Develop Programmable Method to Rearrange Carbon–Nitrogen Bonds in Amines
Tertiary amines are among the most common structural features in biologically active molecules, appearing in medicines, natural products and chemical probes that interact with receptors,...
Informed Dissent: An Underused Tool in Neonatal Intensive Care
In the neonatal intensive care unit, some of the most consequential medical decisions unfold in conversations where parents do not say exactly what they mean....
Sandia Conducts Advanced Test of Secure Transportation Vehicle
A Nuclear Transporter Just Survived Its Final Full-Scale Crash Test A semitrailer carrying mock nuclear weapons has been deliberately hurled into a barrier at Sandia...
Pilots, flight attendants face higher radiation-linked cancer death risks than other workers
A new study of nearly 13 million U.S. death certificates has identified flight attendants and pilots as the occupations with the highest and second-highest proportions...
From Google to ChatGPT: How Students Now Search for Knowledge
A Quiet Revolution in Physics Learning: Students Are Moving from Google to Generative AI Students across the world appear to be changing the way they...
Trial finds chilled platelets safely expand lifesaving supplies for bleeding patients
University of Pittsburgh physician-scientists have reported results from an adaptive clinical trial suggesting that refrigerated platelets can remain effective for up to 21 days, potentially...
Grasses, Not Just Flowers, Also Help Support Pollinators
Bees may be finding an overlooked source of protein in one of the most ordinary features of the Southeastern landscape: the lawn. A study from...
Scientists Reveal Pyridine Rearrangement Through Nitrogen Transposition
Pyridine is one of chemistry’s most familiar molecular frameworks, yet moving a substituent from one position on its ring to another has remained an unexpectedly...
Quinone-shuttling filaments boost energy production in Gram-positive Bacillota
A new study has revealed that some Gram-positive bacteria may overcome one of the fundamental limitations of their cell architecture by building microscopic filaments capable...