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A quiet revolution is sweeping through Sweden’s primary care clinics, driven by a national reform known as the Transition to Integrated and Person-Centred Care, or...

Every time an animal learns to navigate a familiar environment, its brain quietly rewires itself at the molecular level. A new study published in the...

Chronic pain affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide, and for many of them, implanted devices that stimulate peripheral nerves offer one of the few...

Tartrazine, the synthetic azo dye responsible for the bright yellow hue of countless soft drinks, candies, medicines and cosmetics, has long occupied an uneasy place...

Every pregnant woman on the planet now carries a chemical legacy in her bloodstream: a family of synthetic molecules known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances,...

Iodine is one of those elements that most people encounter only as a grain of salt on the dinner table, yet in the ocean it...

Heavy water, or deuterium oxide, has long fascinated microbiologists. Because water participates in virtually every biochemical reaction, replacing ordinary hydrogen with its heavier isotope, deuterium,...

Cancer does not only grow; it devours. One of the most underappreciated drivers of poor outcomes in oncology is the progressive nutritional collapse that many...

Systemic lupus erythematosus has long baffled researchers with its striking bias: roughly nine in ten patients are women, and the gap is widest during the...

Rockfill materials—the quarried rock masses that form the skeletons of embankment dams, road bases, and other heavy civil engineering structures—have long resisted quick, reliable measurement...

Beneath every scorched European heathland lies an invisible workforce: saprotrophic fungi that decompose dead plant material, recycle nutrients, and keep ecosystems running. As climate change...

Aboard a spacecraft, the air astronauts breathe is a closed loop, recycled endlessly through ducts, filters, and scrubbers with no open window to dilute whatever...

Osteoporosis has long been treated as a disease of bone tissue alone, a slow thinning of the skeleton driven by aging, estrogen loss, and an...

Gastric cancer remains one of the world’s deadliest malignancies, ranking fifth among the most commonly diagnosed cancers and accounting for roughly 7.7 percent of all...

A text message program originally designed to treat anxiety appears to deliver an unexpected bonus: relief from depression. In a randomized clinical trial published in...