How You Make a Catalyst Matters: Rhodium on Zirconia and the Art of Ring Opening
In the quest to squeeze more performance out of every drop of diesel fuel, some of the most important chemistry happens at scales too small...
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Siberian Lake Reveals How Microbial Communities Rebuild After a Rare Full Overturn
Deep in the steppes of southern Siberia, a lake that almost never mixes completely did exactly that, and scientists were waiting. Lake Shira, a land-locked...
Spectrum-Guided AI Method Predicts System Faults Before They Strike
Every large computing system, from an electric grid control room to a cloud data center, hums with a hidden language of logs. These timestamped records...
Dizzy Spells After Cell Therapy: Study Finds Most Patients Suffer Hidden Blood Pressure Drops
More than half of all patients receiving lifesaving cellular therapies develop a dangerous drop in blood pressure upon standing within their first month of treatment,...
Machine Learning Hunt Pinpoints Gene Linked to a Heart Drug’s Lung Damage
Amiodarone has saved countless lives as one of the most effective antiarrhythmic drugs available to cardiologists, yet its long-term use carries a shadow: a potentially...
Lipid Fingerprinting Reveals the Hidden Chemistry That Separates Organic Lettuce from Conventional
Organic lettuce sells for nearly twice the price of conventionally grown leaves, and shoppers pay that premium believing it is healthier, cleaner, and kinder to...
High-Pressure Ventilation Linked to Atypical Skull Suture Fusion in Preterm Infants
A team of pediatric craniofacial and neonatal specialists in Orlando has identified what they describe as a previously unrecognized pattern of skull deformity in the...
Overlapping Genes Evolve by Different Rules in Bacteria and Complex Life
Genes, it turns out, are not always the tidy, well-separated units that textbook diagrams suggest. Across the tree of life, stretches of DNA are routinely...
Laser-Dissected Proteomics Reveals Where Immunity Really Lives in Triple-Negative Breast Tumors
Triple-negative breast cancer has long been one of the most stubborn targets in oncology. Lacking the estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, and HER2 amplification that anchor...
Three-Year Campus Study Reveals How Bangkok’s Haze Season Seeps Into University Buildings
Fine particulate matter is one of the most insidious pollutants in modern cities, small enough to slip past the body’s natural defenses and lodge deep...
Lockdowns Curbed Teen Drinking Worldwide, But a New Analysis Reveals Stark Regional Divides
When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools, parties, and entire social lives in early 2020, public health researchers wondered whether one of the world’s most...
Male Dogs and the Very Young and Old Face Higher Risk of Severe Bites, Colorado Study Finds
Dog bites are one of the most common injuries in the United States, yet most research has focused on a deceptively simple question: how often...
Global analysis maps Staphylococcus aureus burden and antibiotic resistance in dairy cow udder infections
A sweeping new systematic review and meta-analysis has produced the most detailed global picture yet of Staphylococcus aureus in bovine intramammary infections, the udder infections...
Weight Loss Program Helps Obese Teenagers Breathe Easier at Rest and During Exercise
Obesity does not simply weigh on the body; it weighs on the lungs. Excess fat around the chest wall and abdomen stiffens the respiratory system,...
Mirror Trick Lets AI Learn Messy Networks Without Any Labels
Artificial intelligence systems that analyze networks have long been built on a comforting assumption: that things which appear together tend to be alike. In a...