Fencing Off Livestock Lets Degraded Ethiopian Soils Recover Within Seven Years
In the highlands of western Ethiopia, a simple act of restraint is quietly rebuilding the ground beneath farmers’ feet. A new study from Gida Ayana...
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Scientists Discover a Molecular Switch That Helps Breast Cancer Hide From Immunotherapy
Immunotherapy has transformed the treatment of many cancers, but breast cancer has remained stubbornly resistant to one of its most powerful weapons: PD-1 blockade. Now,...
Green Bismuth Catalyst Forges Antimicrobial Pyridopyrimidines in One Pot
A team of chemists and microbiologists has unveiled a one-pot, three-component strategy for building pyridopyrimidine derivatives using bismuth(III) triflate, a low-toxicity Lewis acid catalyst, in...
Hidden Viral Worlds and Antibiotic Resistance Genes Found in Colombian Mosquitoes and Sand Flies
A sweeping metatranscriptomic survey of blood-feeding insects in Colombia has revealed an unexpectedly rich and variable landscape of viruses, bacteria, and antimicrobial resistance genes living...
New Estimate Tames the Search for Longest Frequent Itemsets in Big Data
Few problems in data mining are as deceptively simple to state and as brutal to solve as finding patterns that recur across a massive table...
Seventy Years of Microbiome Science in China Signals a One Health Future
Trillions of microorganisms live on and inside the human body, in the soil that grows our food, and in the rivers, oceans and air that...
Ribosomal Protein RPL28 Emerges as a Driver and Prognostic Marker in Kidney Cancer
Clear cell renal cell carcinoma, the most common and most lethal form of kidney cancer, has long frustrated oncologists with its stubborn resistance to chemotherapy...
Feeling Younger, Moving More: How Aging Attitudes Drive Exercise Habits in Older Adults
What keeps older adults coming back to the park at dawn, to the community gym, or to the tai chi group that meets under the...
Household Biogas Plants Slash Fuelwood Use and Carbon Emissions in Rural Ethiopia
In the rugged highlands of North Shoa, Ethiopia, a quiet energy revolution is taking shape around an unlikely resource: cow dung. A new study from...
Oxygen Trick Yields First Uniform Semiconducting Monolayer PtSe2 Films for Transistors
For more than a decade, the promise of two-dimensional semiconductors has been shadowed by a stubborn manufacturing problem: the best atomically thin materials are notoriously...
When Should Cancer Patients Switch Treatment? Researchers Build a Standard Rulebook for a Key Clinical Milestone
In modern cancer medicine, few moments carry as much weight as the day a patient and their doctor decide that the current therapy is no...
Weight-Loss Drugs Reshaped Obesity Care, But Surgery Refuses to Fade
Few medical fields have been transformed as rapidly as obesity medicine. Potent injectable medications can now strip away a fifth or more of body weight,...
Hunger Hormone Receptor Emerges as Unexpected Lever Against Parasitic Liver Disease
A hormone best known for making us feel hungry has turned out to be a surprising accomplice of one of the world’s most stubborn parasitic...
AI Framework Bridges the Knowledge Gap in Safer Medication Recommendations
Artificial intelligence systems that recommend medications to hospital patients have long been promised as a way to help clinicians sift through complex electronic health records...
Scientists Devise a Three-Step Test to Check Whether ICU Data Annotations Can Be Trusted
In the intensive care units where traumatic brain injury patients fight for their lives, monitors stream torrents of physiological data every second: intracranial pressure, arterial...