2+ min ago   (101+ words) Higher income has long been treated as a reliable shield against chronic disease, but a sweeping new analysis of female breast cancer survivors in the United States suggests that this protection is anything but uniform. Drawing on four years of…...

5+ min ago   (72+ words) Aging has long been studied through the lens of DNA damage, protein misfolding, and cellular senescence, but a new framework published in Aging Cell argues that the story begins far higher up — in the air we breathe. Researchers led by…...

20+ min ago   (659+ words) On the reefs surrounding Sepanggar Island, off the coast of Sabah in Malaysian North Borneo, a bushy soft coral sways in the current, its eight-tentacled polyps filtering plankton from the water. To divers, the organism known as Litophyton is an…...

20+ min ago   (55+ words) Immunotherapy has transformed the outlook for people with advanced bladder and kidney cancer. Drugs known as immune checkpoint inhibitors, which block molecular brakes such as CTLA-4, PD-1 and PD-L1 to unleash the immune system against tumours, have dramatically improved long-term…...

41+ min ago   (582+ words) Exercise is one of the most powerful medicines for the heart, enlarging cardiomyocytes in a healthy way and shielding the organ from the devastating damage that follows a heart attack. Yet the molecular arithmetic behind this benefit has remained stubbornly…...

57+ min ago   (571+ words) For patients diagnosed with small kidney cancers tucked dangerously close to the organ’s blood vessels, urine-collecting system, or neighboring bowel, treatment options have long been fraught with compromise. Surgery risks sacrificing precious kidney function, while conventional heat-based ablation risks burning…...

1+ hour, 51+ min ago   (655+ words) Artificial intelligence is no longer simply a tool that social scientists borrow from computer science. According to a sweeping new review published in the journal Artificial Intelligence Review, the relationship between AI and the social sciences has become a two-way…...

2+ hour, 17+ min ago   (397+ words) Harmful algal blooms have quietly become one of the most stubborn environmental crises of our time. Driven by nutrient enrichment, climate change, shifting hydrological conditions and expanding human activity, blooms of cyanobacteria, diatoms and dinoflagellates are appearing more frequently, lasting…...

2+ hour, 24+ min ago   (75+ words) Rare cells punch far above their weight in biology. Populations that make up less than one percent of a tissue can drive tumor progression, immune evasion, drug resistance, and relapse, while others mark the first steps of lineage commitment or…...

2+ hour, 24+ min ago   (704+ words) Every year, billions of tires reach the end of their service life, and engineers have long sought ways to turn this rubbery mountain of waste into something useful....