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Every factory manager knows the dread of an unscheduled breakdown. A bearing seizes, a turbine trips, a production line grinds to a halt, and the...

Cold stress is one of the most punishing constraints on rice cultivation worldwide, stunting seedlings, delaying flowering, and slashing grain yields across temperate and high-altitude...

Gastric cancer remains one of the most lethal malignancies worldwide, and a growing body of research suggests that the key to better treatments may lie...

Freezing of gait is one of the most disabling and distressing symptoms experienced by people living with Parkinson’s disease. Described by patients as feeling as...

A tick-borne parasite capable of causing human disease has been detected for the first time in wild rodents across Pakistan, according to a new study...

Neutrophils are the immune system’s first responders, rushing to sites of infection or injury within minutes and unleashing a battery of antimicrobial weapons that include...

Deep in the dry-hot valley of Panzhihua, in China’s Sichuan Province, some of the world’s richest vanadium–titanium magnetite deposits feed a vast mining and smelting...

When hormone therapy stops working in metastatic breast cancer, patients and their oncologists face one of the most difficult junctures in modern oncology. A large...

A simple, inexpensive squeeze of sugar gel rubbed into a newborn’s cheek has been promoted for more than a decade as a way to rescue...

As global temperatures climb and ocean conditions shift at an accelerating pace, one of the most urgent questions in conservation biology is whether species can...

When a person types a vague, jargon-heavy, or context-dependent request into a computer system, the machine often misses the point. The words may be technically...

Digital agriculture has promised a revolution in how farms are managed, from GPS-guided machinery and IoT sensors to sophisticated farm management platforms that stream real-time...

Triple-negative breast cancer remains one of the most formidable challenges in oncology. Lacking the three molecular targets—estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, and HER2—that drive most breast...

Ischaemic heart disease remains the single largest killer in Central Europe, but a new analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023 reveals that...

A team of materials researchers in India has shown that adding small amounts of cerium to nickel-magnesium ferrite nanoparticles can simultaneously sharpen their magnetic strength,...