Modern societies depend on networks that are often invisible until they fail. Electricity grids, communication systems, transportation routes, financial platforms, supply chains and digital services...
The first weeks of life are a period of extraordinary microbial change. As newborns acquire bacteria from their surroundings, their intestinal microbiome develops rapidly, influenced...
A drug originally developed to control iron traffic in the body has produced an unexpected result in a mouse model of thalassemia: it changed the...
Breast cancer remains the most frequently diagnosed malignancy among women worldwide and is responsible for more than 650,000 deaths each year. Although modern oncology increasingly...
Nitrogen fertilizer has helped transform modern agriculture, but its success comes with a costly paradox: crops often receive more nitrogen than they can absorb. The...
Air pollution is often discussed as a threat to the lungs and cardiovascular system, but a new study is turning attention toward a far more...
A Tiny Biochar Boost Could Make Historic Lime Buildings Stronger While Capturing More CO₂ Natural hydraulic lime, a centuries-old building material used in masonry, conservation...
Nanoparticle-based chemotherapy may work better when paired with the right gut microbiome, according to a new preclinical study from researchers at The University of Texas...
Semiconductor Breakthrough: Interactive Visualizations Let Students See the Invisible World Inside Modern Electronics At a time when the United States is racing to rebuild its...
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Texas Department of State Health Services have documented a likely case of soft tick-borne relapsing fever linked...
Timber harvesting may leave a forest standing while quietly damaging the plants needed to keep it alive. A new study from Nepal shows that tree...
A specially engineered cell-derived therapy may offer a new way to control the dangerous inflammation associated with cytokine storms, according to research from the University...
For decades, microglia have been viewed as the brain’s permanent immune residents: cells that arrive during embryonic development, settle into the central nervous system, and...
For decades, battery researchers have treated one particular electrical signature as a near-direct window into what happens inside an electrode particle. When a battery’s overpotential—the...
For decades, myelin has been viewed primarily as the nervous system’s insulation: a lipid-rich wrapping that accelerates electrical signals as they race along axons. A...
