China’s Adolescents Face a Rising Tide of Mental and Metabolic Health Threats
Adolescence is often described as the healthiest window of the human lifespan, a period of peak physical resilience before the chronic diseases of adulthood take...
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Parasite Eggs and Cysts Carry Negative Charges That May Undermine Diagnosis
Intestinal parasitic infections remain one of the most widespread public health burdens on the planet, and the laboratory techniques used to detect them have changed...
Additives Slow but Reroute How Sunlight Breaks Down Polypropylene
Every year, millions of tonnes of polypropylene enter the environment as packaging, agricultural films, automotive components and everyday consumer goods. Once outdoors, these plastics are...
Pandemic and post-pandemic dynamics of respiratory viruses in a Spanish middle-size city using a long-term wastewater surveillance
Wastewater-based surveillance has emerged over the past decade as one of the most informative complements to clinical testing for tracking viral pathogens at the population...
Interfacial and mechanical engineering for scalable 3D integration of robust stretchable electronics
The pursuit of scalable three-dimensional integration represents one of the most consequential engineering challenges facing the flexible and stretchable electronics community. Conventional rigid electronics benefited...
Strategic Foresight Reveals How Climate-Neutral Farming Transitions Can Survive a Turbulent World
The transition to climate-neutral agriculture is one of the most consequential undertakings of the twenty-first century, and a new analysis published in npj Sustainable Agriculture...
Reishi Mushroom Compounds Show Promise Against Age-Related Memory Decline in New Study
Aging has long been treated as an inevitable slide toward slower thinking, patchier memory, and a brain quietly simmering in its own inflammatory chemistry. A...
Printing Homes on the Moon: Lunar Dust Transformed into Reconfigurable Building Blocks
The dream of a permanent human presence on the Moon has always collided with a brutally simple problem: everything needed to build a lunar base...
Oncolytic Viruses Move Beyond Melting Tumors to Ignite Whole-Body Immunity
Oncolytic virotherapy has long been framed by a deceptively simple metaphor: convert immunologically cold tumors into hot ones by flooding them with inflammatory T cells....
Argininosuccinate Signal Fuels Carbon Replenishment in Leukaemia Cells
A metabolic signalling axis that scientists had long overlooked may be helping one of the most stubborn blood cancers keep itself alive. In a study...
Leaky oocytes propagate cGAS–STING signaling
The aging of the female reproductive system has long been framed as a simple problem of depletion: women are born with a finite pool of...
Engineered ocean bacteria could supercharge CO2 removal by dissolving rocks
One of the planet’s oldest carbon-removal technologies has just received a biological upgrade. Rock weathering, the slow chemical reaction in which rainwater and seawater dissolve...
Ironing out the wrinkles
Solar-cell researchers have spent much of the past decade pushing perovskite photovoltaics from laboratory curiosities toward commercial viability, and the latest milestone comes from an...
Silent fMRI Framework Captures Brain-Wide Networks in Behaving Mice
For decades, functional magnetic resonance imaging has offered scientists an unmatched window into the human brain, revealing whole-brain networks at work without a single incision....
Beyond Flood Control: A Scoping Review Deciphering the Co-benefits of Nature-Based Flood Risk Reduction for Healthy Ageing in China
China’s Sponge City program was conceived as an engineering answer to a hydrological problem: how to keep rapidly expanding urban areas from drowning under increasingly...
