China Needs Coherent Policies to Build Sustainable Food Systems
China’s transition toward a sustainable food system will depend less on isolated technological breakthroughs than on whether the country can align policies that currently pursue...
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Ketamine boosts brain plasticity in female mice, but not male mice
Ketamine has long been known as a powerful anesthetic, but its influence on the brain extends far beyond the operating room. Doctors also use low...
AI blood test detects liver cancer across diverse global populations
Johns Hopkins researchers have validated an artificial intelligence-powered blood test that detected liver cancer in patients from two geographically and biologically distinct populations, while also...
China’s HIAF records first physics result by observing Hafnium-153
Chinese scientists have identified an exceptionally rare isotope, hafnium-153, during the commissioning phase of the High Intensity heavy-ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) in Huizhou, Guangdong Province....
Eating less protein may support healthier aging
Protein-fortified foods are rapidly moving from specialist nutrition products into the mainstream, appearing in cereals, coffee drinks, snack bars and even bottled water. But a...
New discovery may help microbes withstand harsh industrial processes
Fluoride is usually discussed in the context of toothpaste, drinking water, or industrial pollution. At the cellular level, however, it is a potent toxin. The...
Randomized Study Tests Escalating Inhaled LTI-03 Doses for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, or IPF, is a relentlessly progressive lung disease in which healthy tissue is gradually replaced by stiff, scar-like material. As fibrosis advances,...
Electrical Impedance Tomography Shows Promise for Pediatric Clinical Care
A bedside technology that maps how air, fluid and blood move through the lungs may be poised to become a more important tool in pediatric...
Trait-Based Crop Reframing Could Advance Multifunctional, Sustainable Agriculture
Agriculture may be entering a new era in which crops are judged not only by how much food they produce, but by how many ecological...
Where America’s Data Centers Actually Live Within the Urban Machine
The cloud is not floating in some distant wilderness. It is taking shape alongside highways, neighborhoods, power corridors and former industrial sites in and around...
Two Deadly Flowers Show Major Medical Potential
A pair of famously poisonous plants may hold the blueprint for a new generation of medicines. Researchers from Michigan State University and the Czech Academy...
China, Australia and New Zealand Unite on Next-Generation Water Quality Modeling
Water quality is becoming one of the defining environmental challenges of the 21st century, as climate change, urban expansion, agricultural intensification, and rising industrial activity...
URI Wins $1.5 Million to Study Disease Affecting Older Adults, Alzheimer’s Patients
A $1.5 million grant has been awarded to University of Rhode Island neuroscientist William Van Nostrand to investigate one of the most dangerous and least...
New genetic tool reveals how genes are regulated
The human genome contains more than 20,000 genes, yet most cells use only a fraction of them at any given moment. How cells decide which...
Early-Life Sugar Restriction Linked to Age-Related Disease, Biological Aging, and Mortality
A new study published in Nature Communications has drawn attention to a deceptively simple question with potentially far-reaching consequences: can the amount of sugar encountered...