Physics-Enhanced AI Sharpens Lithium-Ion Battery Health Estimates Using Impedance Fingerprints
Lithium-ion batteries quietly age every time they charge and discharge, and knowing exactly how much life remains inside a cell has become one of the...
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Scientists uncover hidden susceptibility genes fueling wheat disease outbreaks
One of the most damaging fungal diseases of wheat is quietly exploiting the crop’s own genes, and a sweeping new study has now mapped exactly...
Arm and Leg Sarcomas Follow Surprisingly Different Surgical Roads, 24-Year Study Finds
Synovial sarcoma is one of the rarest and most deceptive soft-tissue cancers known to medicine. It tends to strike young adults, often lurks silently for...
Twin and GWAS Data Reveal the Genetic Roots of Cardiometabolic Traits in Asian Populations
For decades, scientists have wrestled with a deceptively simple question: how much of our risk for obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, and abnormal cholesterol comes...
Pocket-Sized Biosensor Detects Dust Mite Allergen in Minutes
For hundreds of millions of people worldwide, the most dangerous thing in their home is one they cannot see. Microscopic house dust mites thrive in...
Engineered Cellulase-Secreting Yeast Slashes Enzyme Costs in Bioethanol Production
The economic viability of second-generation bioethanol has long been held hostage by a single line item on the balance sheet: the cost of commercial cellulase...
One-Pot CRISPR Test Detects and Subtypes H5 and H7 Bird Flu at the Point of Need
The global spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza has exposed a persistent weakness in the world’s diagnostic arsenal: the tools that are most sensitive tend...
Biochar and Zinc Team Up to Shield Rice From Toxic Cadmium
Cadmium contamination in rice paddies is one of the quiet crises of modern agriculture. The heavy metal, released into soils by mining, industrial discharge and...
Cancer Cells Rewire Their Fuel Supply When This Growth Signal Switches On
One of the most stubborn killers in oncology is quietly being re-understood at the level of its molecular plumbing. Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma,...
From Code Status to Real Conversation: How Doctors Actually Learn to Talk About Goals of Care
Few moments in medicine carry more weight than a conversation about goals of care. When a patient faces a serious, life-limiting illness, the way a...
AI Takes On Invisible Chemical Threats in Food and Medicine
Every year, the world applies millions of tonnes of agrochemicals to crops and consumes billions of doses of pharmaceuticals, yet the safety story rarely ends...
CRISPR and Nanopore Sequencing Reveal Hidden RNA Tags in E. coli
Inside every bacterial cell, RNA molecules carry far more information than their sequence of bases alone. After transcription, the four nitrogenous bases of RNA can...
Neural Networks Crack Fractional Volatility Equations Behind Market Memory
Financial markets have long been known to behave in ways that defy the tidy mathematics of classical finance. Asset prices exhibit fat-tailed return distributions, volatility...
Most Ugandan Maize Farmers Remain Unaware of Grading Standards, Study Finds
Maize is the backbone of Uganda’s food economy, feeding millions of people every day and supplying millers, traders and regional export markets with one of...
Prostate Cancer Screening Gaps Between Rural and Urban America May Be Smaller Than Feared
Prostate cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed cancer among men in the United States after skin cancer, and the blood test that sits at the...
