Programmable Spinning Weaves Entire Integrated Circuits Into a Single Fibre
A single thread that can glow, compute, sense a hand moving through the air, and survive a trip through the washing machine sounds like science...
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Austria’s Post-Pandemic Deaths Point to Overcounted COVID-19 Mortality
More than four years after the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic ended, one of the most persistent questions in public health is how much...
X-rays Reveal the Interlayer Glue Behind Superconductivity in Bilayer Nickelates
Few discoveries in modern condensed matter physics have energized the community quite like the rise of the nickelate superconductors. Since the first reports of superconductivity...
Microfluidic Encoding Turns Ordinary Fibres into Working Electronic Circuits
Textiles have accompanied humanity for thousands of years, but the fibres that make up our clothing have remained, for the most part, electrically passive. A...
Protein Maps of Colorectal Cancer Reveal New Biomarkers of Tumor Spread
Colorectal cancer remains one of the deadliest and most frequently diagnosed gastrointestinal malignancies in the world, and clinicians have long struggled with a frustrating gap:...
Tiny Moss Frogs Reveal How Skin and Thyroid Evolve Together for Life on Land
Deep in the mountain fynbos of South Africa, a frog smaller than a fingernail is quietly rewriting what scientists thought they knew about how vertebrates...
Six Experts Map the Future of Rare Metabolic Disease Research
Rare diseases are defined individually by their scarcity, but collectively they represent one of the largest burdens of unmet medical need in modern medicine. An...
Prenatal Mercury at Real-World Levels Rewires Development Differently in Male and Female Rats
A single pollutant, swallowed by a pregnant mother in doses that would not raise eyebrows at a seafood counter, may be enough to bend the...
Taxing Food Emissions Could Reshape Diets Across Borders, Study Finds
Fiscal policy has long been a blunt instrument in the hands of governments, but a growing body of research suggests it may be one of...
New Genetic Factor Analysis Method Reveals Hidden Shared Roots of Disease
A team of statisticians and geneticists has unveiled a powerful new computational method that promises to untangle one of the most stubborn puzzles in modern...
Three-Day Methadone Bridge Therapy Keeps People in Opioid Treatment, Study Finds
Methadone remains one of the most effective medications available for opioid use disorder, yet in the United States it is locked behind a regulatory architecture...
Fixing Salty Soils Could Halve Nitrogen Pollution and Add Billions in Crop Value
Across the planet, more than a billion hectares of farmland are quietly being poisoned by salt. As irrigation water evaporates and rising seas push saline...
Stress Tests Reveal the Hidden Weaknesses of AI Credit Scoring Models
The algorithms that decide who gets a credit card, a mortgage, or a business loan are among the most consequential machine learning systems in the...
New Immune Checkpoint Discovery Explains Why Gastric Cancers Ignore PD-1 Drugs
One of the most stubborn puzzles in cancer immunotherapy may have just cracked open. In a study published in Advanced Science, researchers report the construction...
Inside the Lifesaving Tubes That Drain the Brain: How Imaging Keeps Shunts Alive
Deep beneath the skin of hundreds of thousands of children worldwide, a slender silicone tube quietly performs one of medicine’s most vital tasks: draining excess...
