Higher doses of common fertility drug linked to increased pregnancy risks
Infertility affects approximately one in six people worldwide, and irregular or absent ovulation remains one of its most common causes. For decades, clomiphene citrate has...
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Microplastics May Skew Estimates of Biochar’s Climate Benefits in Agricultural Soils
Biochar has become one of agriculture’s most promising tools for removing carbon from the atmosphere. Produced by heating plant material in a low-oxygen environment, this...
Johns Hopkins Experts Co-Author New Treatment Framework for Liver Cancer
Johns Hopkins Experts Co-Author New Treatment Framework for Hepatocellular Carcinoma A consortium of North American liver cancer specialists has introduced a new framework for treating...
Surface-Wave-Driven Metasurfaces Generate Custom Vector Light Fields
Metasurfaces have transformed the way scientists manipulate light, but most existing devices still operate under a fundamental constraint: they primarily control the phase of propagating...
Large study finds early flu antivirals reduce ICU admissions in hospitalized children
A nationwide analysis of children hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed influenza has found that treatment with the antiviral drug oseltamivir was associated with a substantially lower risk...
Healthy lifestyle lowers hearing impairment risk 14%; metabolism plays key role
Hearing impairment is often associated with aging, prolonged noise exposure, or inherited vulnerability. Yet a large prospective study suggests that the daily habits shaping cardiovascular...
Cellulose-Derived Quantum Dots Boost Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production
Sunlight-driven hydrogen production has long promised a way to store renewable energy in a clean, flexible form. Yet the materials designed to make hydrogen from...
Biomarkers Improve Cost-Benefit Analysis of Head and Neck Cancer Immunotherapy
Biomarker May Determine Whether Perioperative Pembrolizumab Is Worth Its High Cost in Head and Neck Cancer A new economic analysis suggests that the value of...
KAIST Creates Gas Lattice in Porous Materials, Revealing Crystal-Like Structure
Gas molecules inside porous materials have long been treated as disordered guests, filling microscopic cavities according to averaged properties such as adsorption capacity and selectivity....
Alter Dementia, Dementia Care Aware Give 100+ Free Screenings Across Black Churches
A community-based cognitive screening initiative in Atlanta has brought early dementia detection into a setting where many older African Americans already feel comfortable: trusted faith...
Review finds rotational chair testing fills critical gaps in vestibular disorder care
Dizziness and vertigo affect millions of people worldwide, yet the tests most commonly used to investigate vestibular disorders do not capture the full range of...
Anschutz researchers uncover energy addiction in high-risk blood cancer stem cells
Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Cancer Center have uncovered a metabolic vulnerability in the stem cells responsible for driving high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS),...
Digital Science connects AI agents to research data via Dimensions MCP
Digital Science has launched two new Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for its Dimensions research platform, giving enterprise artificial intelligence agents direct, license-aligned access to...
Molecular Structures Guide Targeted Parkinson’s Disease Treatment Development
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have revealed how LRRK2, a protein strongly associated with Parkinson’s disease, switches between inactive and active states. The study, published...
Photosynthetic Microorganisms Enable Long-Lasting, Renewable Chemical Production
Finnish researchers have developed living nanocellulose films that can produce ethylene for more than four months, offering a possible new route to renewable chemicals and...