Rice researchers show graphene nanowrinkles can reshape electrical behavior
Rice University researchers have shown that wrinkles only a few atoms wide can transform graphene from a nearly flat sheet of carbon into a landscape...
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CDC Awards Louisiana Breast and Cervical Health Program More Than $3 Million
Louisiana Program Receives More Than $3 Million to Expand Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening A statewide cancer prevention program in Louisiana has received more than...
Astronomers Observe a Cosmic Recycling System in Action
An international team of astronomers has uncovered a previously hidden chapter in the life cycle of stars by observing fragments of stellar material being torn...
USC researchers create automated MRI system to advance stroke treatment research
A new MRI-based system could change how experimental stroke treatments are evaluated, allowing researchers to compare brain injury across thousands of laboratory animals with far...
Rapid wildfires reduce forests’ ability to recover, study finds
Wildfires moving at extreme speed may be doing more than expanding the burned area across western North America: they may be pushing forests past a...
Your Photos Could Help Scientists Make New Discoveries
A photograph uploaded to iNaturalist may look like an ordinary snapshot of a strange-looking arachnid, but thousands of such images have helped scientists uncover a...
Brain Mechanisms Underlying Compositional Control
A new study suggests that the brain may not choose between goals in continuous, real-world behaviour as if it were selecting a single option from...
Tunable Polymers Enable Organ-Selective RNA Delivery Using Polymer–Lipid Hybrid Nanoparticles
RNA medicines are moving rapidly from experimental therapies toward practical treatments, but one of the field’s biggest obstacles remains the same: getting fragile genetic cargo...
Dataset artifacts may partly explain the measured decline in disruptions
A debate over whether modern science and technology are becoming less disruptive has entered a new phase, with researchers arguing that the apparent decline may...
Author Correction: Trained immunity connects aging hematopoietic stem cells with inflammation
A small correction to a paper in Nature Aging has drawn renewed attention to a major question in biology: how does aging in the blood-forming...
FGFR2-Rearranged Cholangiocarcinoma Highlights the Need for Precision Trial Design
Cholangiocarcinoma, a cancer arising in the bile ducts, has become an unexpected test of whether precision oncology can deliver on its central promise: matching the...
Proteomics Identifies Carboxypeptidase E as Potential Biomarker for Synucleinopathies
Synucleinopathies, a group of progressive neurological disorders that includes Parkinson’s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and multiple system atrophy, may have acquired a new molecular...
Study classifies flexible loads and optimizes demand response in cascade gate-pumping systems
Cascade gate-pumping systems rarely attract public attention, yet they quietly perform one of the most energy-intensive jobs in modern water infrastructure: moving enormous volumes of...
Teaching Robots Universal Grasping Through Contact Learning in Cluttered Real-World Environments
A new robotic grasping system has demonstrated a striking ability to move between radically different robot hands without being retrained for each one. Called SpaHybGen,...
New Generative Models Predict Transition States in Unseen Chemical Reactions
Chemical reactions are decided at a fleeting point that molecules occupy only for an instant: the transition state. It is the high-energy configuration through which...