In the sprawling mountain city of Chongqing, where steep hillsides and dense urban districts make daily life demanding even for the young, a quiet technological...
Tetracycline is one of the most heavily produced antibiotics on the planet, manufactured in thousands of tons every year, and much of it ends up...
As the ocean creeps inland across the world’s coastlines, scientists are warning that the water itself may become a delivery system for some of the...
Every person walks in a way that is subtly, persistently their own. The rhythm of a stride, the swing of an arm, the angle at...
As heat waves intensify across the world’s vegetable-growing regions, scientists are racing to find practical ways to keep crops alive when temperatures climb beyond what...
Colorectal cancer remains one of the world’s most formidable malignancies, ranking as the third most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related...
Respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, infects nearly every child before their second birthday, yet the consequences of that infection are profoundly unequal. In 2019, the...
Fuel cells have long promised a clean energy future, but one unglamorous component has quietly held them back: the bipolar plate. Sandwiched between each cell...
Antibiotic resistance has become one of the defining medical challenges of the century, and researchers are increasingly turning to nanotechnology for answers. A new study...
Fine-tuning a large language model usually demands something deceptively simple: gradients. Every step of conventional training relies on backpropagation, the algorithmic machinery that propagates error...
Every year, an invisible army of fungi, insects, and weeds wages war on the fields that feed China, and every year an equally invisible defense...
For decades, doctors have treated T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma as two faces of the same disease. Both arise from immature T...
A sweeping new study of more than 14,000 South Korean adolescents has found that the burden young people carry from constant connectivity is not a...
Respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, remains one of the most consequential pathogens of early childhood and old age, a leading cause of severe lower respiratory...
For more than half a century, agricultural laboratories around the world have relied on a single chemical recipe to decide how much potassium fertilizer a...
