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Tracing extracellular vesicles' journey from cancer cells to urine
Cancer cell-derived small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) can travel from distant tumors through the bloodstream and kidneys and be excreted into urine, as report...
NASA finds source of Artemis II problem that forced rollback from the launch pad
NASA announced it had found the source of a helium flow blockage that forced it to roll the Artemis II rocket back from the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center a...
From water splitting to H₂O₂: A new method narrows carbon nitride photocatalyst design
Photocatalysis promises an efficient conversion of abundant solar energy into usable chemical energy. Polyheptazine imides have some key structural and function...
Why conversation is more like a dance than an exchange of words
Think about the last time you told a story to a friend. You probably adjusted it halfway through. You saw their eyebrows lift. You noticed them lean in, or glan...
Almost a third of Gen Z men agree a wife should obey her husband, global study finds
Some 31% of Gen Z men agree that a wife should always obey her husband and one third (33%) say a husband should have the final word on important decisions, acco...
Smarter mangrove protection: Study links a 7.3% area boost to 13.3% resilience gain
A global study of mangroves has found that a modest boost in conserved areas could significantly increase their ability to adapt to the changing climate, includ...
Antibacterial coatings with short-term effect may fail over longer periods of time
Researchers from the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology of the University of Tartu have shown in a recently published study th...
Irrigation gaps in weather models could skew air quality forecasts, study finds
Outdoor air pollution is estimated to contribute to more than 100,000 premature deaths in the United States each year, according to the National Weather Service...
Microbial assembly line makes plastic upcycling programmable
By converting plastic waste into a microbe-friendly food source, scientists have built an upcycling pipeline that turns the waste into a variety of useful produ...
Trapping light on thermal photodetectors shatters speed records
Electrical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated the fastest pyroelectric photodetector to date, which works by absorbing heat generated by incoming li...
Simulation makes it possible to study movements of cell's largest protein complexes without supercomputers
Large protein machines in the body carry out many of the cell's most essential tasks, from energy production to the regulation of signal transmission. Although...
We discovered lethal new fungal diseases in wild Australian reptiles. It's time to act fast
When a coastal carpet python was brought into a wildlife hospital in South East Queensland in August 2024, vets were confronted with something they didn't recog...