Supportive workplaces help retain experienced NHS nurses, study finds
An ageing workforce is forcing health systems to confront a question that recruitment campaigns alone cannot answer: what makes experienced nurses stay? New research involving...
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ShanghaiTech Researchers Develop Diffusion-Regularized Neural Representation to Reduce CT Metal Artifacts
Computed tomography has transformed modern medicine by allowing clinicians to see inside the body without surgery, but the technology has a persistent weakness: metal can...
Mediterranean Basin Study Assesses Irrigation Water Quality and Wastewater Reuse Risks
A new study in Scientific Reports is placing an urgent question at the center of Mediterranean agriculture: when freshwater supplies are under pressure, how safely...
New Imaging Technology Captures Seizures as They Happen
Scientists have captured a seizure moving through a living brain in three dimensions and in real time, offering one of the clearest views yet of...
Three Water Molecules Reveal the Minimal Switch Enabling Ultrafast Proton Transport
Water is often described as the universal solvent, but that familiar label captures only part of its importance. In living systems, geological environments and laboratory...
BU/VA Researcher Honored for Contributions to Trauma Psychology
Colleen Sloan, PhD, a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, has received the Outstanding Contributions to Practice...
New fossil evidence upends long-held assumptions about how mammals gave birth
A fossilized growth signal in the bones of a 236-million-year-old cynodont may have revealed one of the earliest known examples of live birth in the...
Interference-Engineered Mach–Zehnder Modulator Achieves Ultra-High Extinction Ratio Optical Modulation
A new study describes an optical modulator designed to push one of the most important performance measures in modern communications technology to an extreme: the...
Friendly gut bacteria curb viral infections with a tryptophan-derived metabolite
A new study published in Nature Communications reports that bacteria normally living alongside humans may help suppress viral infections by producing a metabolite derived from...
Preclinical Data Require Clinical Context for Accurate Interpretation
The path from a promising laboratory result to an effective clinical treatment is often described as a pipeline, but a new Nature article argues that...
Extinction intervention erases fear memories through locus coeruleus dopamine and D2 receptors
A new study reports that a behavioral intervention can do more than suppress the outward expression of fear: it may erase the neural trace of...
Scientists Compare Human Brains and Organoids Side by Side
For nearly 15 years, scientists have been building organoids—three-dimensional structures grown from stem cells that mimic selected features of organs in miniature. Researchers at the...
RTN4IP1 Drives Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Progression and Metastasis Through Metabolic Reprogramming
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), one of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer, may be driven by a previously underappreciated mitochondrial protein that helps tumor...
Recyclable Energy Storage Device Designed for Sustainability
Smartphones, smartwatches and small drones may soon have access to a different kind of rechargeable power source—one designed not only to store energy, but also...
Stroller-running parents report less than half the injury rate of other runners
For parents who lace up their running shoes while pushing a stroller, the extra weight and altered stride may seem like a recipe for injury....