SUNY Chancellor King Announces Simons Empire Faculty Fellowship Recipients
State University of New York Chancellor John B. King Jr. has announced the inaugural class of Simons Empire Faculty Fellows, a new research initiative supporting...
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MIT engineers link bacteria to build living transistors
MIT researchers have built what may be the closest biological equivalent yet to a printed circuit board: a network of living bacterial colonies that can...
Why 35% of US Employees Remain on the Margins
The American workplace is undergoing a structural transformation that is leaving millions of people employed but increasingly disconnected from long-term careers, according to MIT labor...
Cancer Treatment Saves Lives Without Dangerous Side Effects
CAR T-cell therapy has changed the outlook for people with some of the most aggressive blood cancers, turning a patient’s own immune system into a...
KTU chemists create dual-action compounds targeting cancer and infections
Cancer treatment is rarely limited to the cancer itself. Patients with advanced disease may also develop bacterial or fungal infections, while other medical conditions can...
Dollar Store Groceries May Carry Hidden Health Costs
Dollar Stores May Be Quietly Reshaping America’s Health—One Grocery Aisle at a Time For millions of Americans, dollar stores are more than places to buy...
Uganda’s digital farmer networks boost bargaining power, but gender gaps persist
Farmer groups and digital agricultural networks are helping smallholders in sub-Saharan Africa sell crops, access information and coordinate their economic activities—but a new study suggests...
New evolutionary discoveries prompt scientists to rethink human ancestor names and classifications
Recent discoveries in human evolution are forcing scientists to reconsider one of the most familiar names in biology: Homo. A new study from Monash University...
New platform enables long-lasting, air-stable persistent luminescence in amorphous organic materials
A new study has introduced a platform designed to solve one of the most stubborn problems in organic photoluminescence: creating materials that continue to glow...
Switchable smart gel could enable next-generation drug delivery and sensing technologies
Scientists at the University of Birmingham have created a molecular gel that can be switched between a solid-like state and a flowing, liquid-like state using...
Cannabis Use Associated With Earlier Psychosis Onset
A large international meta-analysis has found that people who use cannabis develop psychosis an average of two and a half years earlier than people who...
Posterior Transosseous S1 Pedicle Approach Reaches Superior Hypogastric Plexus
Chronic pelvic pain affects millions of people and can persist despite medication, physical therapy, nerve stimulation and surgery. A new hypothesis published in Exploratory Research...
New study maps diverse cardiac fibroblasts driving HFpEF, revealing therapeutic targets
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, or HFpEF, has become one of cardiology’s most difficult challenges. Patients retain a seemingly normal left-ventricular ejection fraction, yet...
How AI Could Detect Pain in Animals Unable to Communicate Their Suffering
AI System Reads Pain in Horses—and Shows Exactly Where It Sees Suffering A new artificial intelligence framework can detect signs of pain in horses from...
New master switch linked to aggressive breast cancer; drug slows tumour growth
Researchers at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore have identified a molecular “master switch” that appears to coordinate...