Tiny Robotic Cilia Sense Heat and Pump Fluid on a Chip
A quiet revolution is unfolding at the scale of a human hair. In work highlighted in a News and Views piece by Wenqi Hu of...
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Heart-on-a-Chip Pumps Blood-Style Flow to Test Drug Effects on Beating Cells
Every heartbeat is a conversation between chemistry and mechanics, and it happens in a moving stream of blood. When a drug enters the circulation, it...
New US Dietary Guidelines Could Push Food Emissions Up by a Third, Study Finds
America’s most influential nutrition document has just been handed an uncomfortable climate report card. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the federal blueprint that shapes school...
Salt-Stressed Soils Are Quietly Draining the World’s Nitrogen
Soil salinization has long been recognized as one of the most stubborn threats to global agriculture, but a new analysis in Nature Food argues that...
Hybrid AI Model Brings Balance to Automated Lung Sound Diagnosis
Chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, remain among the world’s most persistent killers. In the European region alone,...
New Boron Allotrope Bends Like Metal and Conducts Like a Semiconductor
Boron has long been one of the most stubborn elements on the periodic table. It is light, abundant, and chemically versatile, yet for decades the...
AI Can Spot Heart Disease, But a New Survey Warns Its Dazzling Accuracy May Be Too Good to Be True
Cardiovascular disease kills roughly 17.9 million people every year, accounting for about 32 percent of all deaths worldwide, and the World Health Organization projects that...
AI Chemist Learns to Edit Molecules Into Makeable Medicines
Generative artificial intelligence has become remarkably good at dreaming up molecules. Feed a model a protein pocket or a desired property profile, and it will...
Chip-scale laser trick shatters timing noise record for millimetre-wave signals
Engineers have long dreamed of millimetre-wave signals so pure that their timing never wavers by more than a few quintillionths of a second. That dream...
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...
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...
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