Scientists Combine Light and Electricity to Keep Nerve Stimulation Working Longer
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...
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Zinc–Cerium Nanocomposite Sensor Offers Rapid Detection of Controversial Yellow Food Dye
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...
PFAS in Early Pregnancy May Raise Gestational Diabetes Risk, Vitamin D Status Emerges as a Key Factor
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,...
Seaweed, Seagrass and Phytoplankton Shape the Ocean’s Iodine Cycle, Review Finds
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 Reveals How E. coli Rewires Its Metabolism Under Isotopic Stress
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,...
Ancient Chinese Formula Logic Offers New Blueprint for Cancer Nutrition Therapy
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...
Two Forms of the Estrogen Receptor Play Opposing Roles in Lupus Inflammation
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...
AI-Powered Image Analysis Delivers Precise Rockfill Characterization for Dam Safety
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...
Heatwave Temperatures Reshape Soil Fungi in Surprisingly Species-Specific Ways
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...
Scientists Build Virtual Spacecraft to Predict Toxic Chemical Risks to Astronauts
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...
Gut Microbe Metabolites May Reach Bone Cells Through an AKT1 Signaling Network
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...
Immune checkpoint VSIR fuels gastric cancer growth by amplifying AXL signaling
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...
Text Message Anxiety Therapy Eases Depression in Young Adults, Trial Finds
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...
Crowded Homes Raise Infant Infection Risk While Farm Animals Show Mixed Effects
One of the largest studies ever conducted on the early-life home environment has found that the physical and biological characteristics of a family’s home may...
Egyptian Farms Score Barely Half Their Sustainability Potential, New Framework Reveals
Agriculture in Egypt is running at barely half of its sustainable potential, according to a new integrated assessment that puts hard numbers on one of...
