China Can Close Irrigation-Limited Maize Yield Gaps Despite Climate Change
China’s maize harvest is entering a new era of uncertainty, and a new study suggests that the country’s biggest opportunity may lie not in expanding...
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Targeted Treatments Aim to Improve Outcomes for Serious Lung Infections
Cystic fibrosis is often described as a bacterial disease, but the airways of people living with the condition are home to far more than a...
Seoul researchers develop strategy for designing ultra-fast-charging batteries
Electric-vehicle drivers may soon have a new reason to stop fearing long charging times. Researchers in South Korea have developed a redesigned lithium-ion battery anode...
New neonatal hypoxic-ischemic model shows glial activation, memory deficits without neuronal loss
A new neonatal model of hypoxic-ischemic injury is challenging a central assumption in the study of newborn brain damage: that lasting cognitive problems must be...
Scientists Identify Seven Previously Unknown Frog Species in Madagascar
An international team of scientists has described seven new species of diamond frogs from Madagascar, revealing that the island’s secretive genus Rhombophryne contains far more...
Tear protein analysis uncovers reproducible pathway signatures linked to Parkinson’s disease
Parkinson’s disease may leave a molecular trace in one of the body’s most overlooked fluids: tears. A study by Acera, Gómez-Esteban, Ruiz-Martínez and colleagues, published...
AI uncovers previously unknown health insights from routine sleep studies
A new artificial intelligence model has found that a routine overnight sleep study may contain far more information about a patient’s future health than clinicians...
Life uses one language to activate genes, but many to silence them
Cells across the eukaryotic tree of life appear to rely on a remarkably ancient system for switching genes on, while using a far more diverse...
Chinese Older Adults’ Cognitive Subtypes and Risk Networks Revealed by Explainable AI
Cognitive decline in later life may not follow a single path, and a new study of Chinese older adults is drawing attention to the possibility...
Autonomous Nasal Delivery Systems Bring CNS Therapies Directly to the Brain
A new review in Experimental & Molecular Medicine examines how autonomous intranasal delivery systems could transform the way medicines reach the brain, offering a potential...
Foundation Model Uses Sleep Data to Predict Health Risks and Clinical Outcomes
A New AI Foundation Model Could Turn Sleep Into an Early-Warning System for Health Risks Sleep may look like a period of biological inactivity, but...
Overlooked Freshwater Giants May Become the World’s Next Climate Observatories
More than 100 shallow lakes extending across roughly 1,000 kilometers of coastline in southern Brazil and Uruguay could become one of the world’s most valuable...
How the Brain Sustains Motivation
Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified a brain mechanism that helps animals continue working toward a reward even when the effort required keeps...
How Living Alone and Socioeconomic Status Affect Older Adults’ Mortality
A question that sounds deceptively simple—whether an older person lives alone—may conceal a far more complex story about health, wealth and survival. A new population-based...
Mammary Stem Cells: Their Roles in Breast Development, Function, and Disease
For decades, mammary stem cells have been portrayed as the hidden architects of the breast: rare, self-renewing cells capable of producing the specialized cell types...