China Study Ranks Indoor VOC Sources by Their Attributable Disease Burden
China’s indoor air problem is moving into sharper scientific focus as researchers examine not only how much pollution people breathe inside buildings, but also where...
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Multicolor Electrochromic Actuators Enable Biomimetic Skin-Muscle Coupling
Researchers have unveiled a new approach to making soft robots and wearable machines look and move more like living organisms: flexible actuators that combine muscle-like...
Honeybee Gut Symbiont’s Colibactin Helps Defend Against Pathogens
A gut bacterium that shortens the lifespan of honeybees may nevertheless help them survive a potentially lethal infection. Researchers have found that Frischella perrara, a...
Motor neurons coordinate fruit fly feeding sequences through disinhibitory signaling
A new study in Drosophila is challenging one of neuroscience’s most familiar ideas: that motor neurons are merely the final relay stations that carry commands...
Experts establish criteria for enhanced recovery pathways in newborns and infants
A new international effort to make surgery safer for newborns and infants is proposing a common language for “enhanced recovery” care, a field traditionally associated...
How Autophagy Maintains Brain Health and Contributes to Disease
The brain depends on an intricate internal recycling system to keep its exceptionally long-lived cells functioning. A new review in Nature Neuroscience examines how macroautophagy,...
Can Scientists’ Self-Rankings Predict Scientific Impact Beyond Peer Review?
For decades, science has relied on a formal ritual to decide which discoveries deserve attention: experts read manuscripts, assess their quality and novelty, and recommend...
Multi-Resolution Enhancement Improves Full-Spectrum Neural Representations
Artificial intelligence systems are often praised for seeing patterns, but many of them remain surprisingly poor at representing detail across different scales. A new study...
NJU-PKU Team Achieves High-Fidelity Lensless Imaging of Dynamic Scenes in One Shot
Lensless cameras may soon become far more capable of recording moving biological samples, thanks to a new computational imaging framework developed by researchers at Nanjing...
Robot-Assisted Surgery Offers Clinical Benefits Over Laparoscopy in Gastric Cancer
A nationwide study in Japan has found that robotic gastrectomy may provide several measurable advantages over conventional laparoscopic surgery for people undergoing treatment for gastric...
Review examines tryptophan metabolism’s role in female reproduction
Tryptophan, the amino acid best known as a building block for serotonin, may be far more deeply involved in female reproductive health than previously recognized....
Study identifies potential multi-target treatment for chronic ankle instability
Ankle sprains are often treated as temporary injuries, but for many people the consequences persist long after swelling and pain have subsided. As many as...
Candida auris Senses Nutrients to Control Virulence and Shape Host Immunity
Candida auris, an emerging fungal pathogen responsible for difficult-to-control outbreaks in hospitals worldwide, appears to make a strategic decision before it attacks: it evaluates the...
Universal Flu Vaccine Protects Mice Against Multiple Strains
A vaccine built from genetically engineered baker’s yeast and decorated with a slow-changing influenza protein has protected mice against three influenza strains, according to researchers...
Scientists Transform Plastic Bottles Into Cookies
A cookie made from plastic bottles, corn stalks and engineered yeast may sound like science fiction, but researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale say their...