AI sheds partial light on why some words demand more reading effort
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...
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Beyond antibiotics, surgical safety culture cuts postoperative endophthalmitis 64.4%
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...
Mapping the Fragrance Profile of Herbaceous Peonies
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...
Scientists discover the brain can repair itself more extensively than previously believed
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...
Rural-to-Urban Transition Temporarily Weakens Social-Ecological Resilience
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...
Sex Differences Shape Blood Metabolite Profiles in Familial Parkinson’s Disease
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...
Scientists Track Drug Self-Administration in Head-Fixed Mice
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 miss targets, exposing urgent gaps before 2050
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...
Dolby Laboratories Acquires FAU’s Video Compression Technology Portfolio
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...
D-serine accelerates tumor growth in gastric cancer
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,...
AI system could save lives by predicting how modern house fires spread
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...
Future Intensifies Competition for Scarce Clean Water
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...
Sovereignty, decarbonization, and energy costs influence public support for data centers
Data centers are often portrayed as invisible engines of the digital economy, powering artificial intelligence, cloud computing, streaming platforms and billions of daily online interactions....
AI-Designed Minibinders Target ERO1A–PDIA1 Redox Axis in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Triple-negative breast cancer has long presented one of oncology’s most difficult challenges: it lacks the three molecular markers—estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor and HER2—that guide many...
Parkinson’s Disease Links Cholinergic Deficits to Hallucinations
Parkinson’s disease is widely recognized for its tremor, slowed movement and muscle rigidity, but a new study is drawing attention to another dimension of the...