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Tetralogy of Fallot, the most common form of cyanotic congenital heart disease, may be influenced by genetic changes hidden outside protein-coding genes. A study led...

For decades, the fastest route to a new medicine, advanced material, or industrial chemical has often depended on a reaction that chemists can perform reliably...

Rice straw, often treated as agricultural waste, may be one of the most powerful tools available for storing carbon in flooded croplands. An 11-year field...

Why Humans Reread Sentences That AI Finds Easy Some sentences seem to glide through the mind, while others bring reading to a sudden halt. The...

Postoperative endophthalmitis, a rare but potentially devastating infection inside the eye, fell by 64.4% after a hospital introduced a comprehensive surgical safety culture program, according...

Floral fragrance is often treated as a charming but superficial feature of ornamental plants. In reality, scent is a complex biological signal that can attract...

Astrocytes, the star-shaped cells that support and nourish neurons, may possess a far greater capacity for self-repair than scientists once believed. In a study published...

A quiet warning is emerging from the expanding edges of China’s cities. In the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei urban agglomeration, landscapes undergoing the shift from countryside to city...

Parkinson’s disease is often described as a disorder of movement, but a new study highlights a biological difference that may be impossible to ignore: the...

Drug self-administration has long been regarded as one of the most informative laboratory approaches for studying substance use disorder. Unlike experiments in which animals passively...

Food systems are failing to move fast enough on the goals that matter most for human health, environmental stability and social wellbeing, according to a...

Florida Atlantic University–developed video-compression technology has been acquired by Dolby Laboratories, placing research from the university at the center of a global race to deliver...

Gastric cancer may be exploiting a little-known metabolic molecule to disable the immune system, according to research from Keio University in Japan. The molecule, D-serine,...

A University of Waterloo research team is using artificial intelligence, data science and advanced mathematics to reveal how fires evolve inside modern homes—an effort that...

Water scarcity is entering a more dangerous phase—one in which the problem is no longer defined simply by how much water exists, but by whether...