Small shifts in blood sodium may influence human brain excitability
Even within the healthy range, small differences in blood sodium were associated with measurable changes in brain excitability,…
Scientists create Bose-Einstein condensate leading to a new fifth state of matter
In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of…
Genetic variant appears to protect against blood cancers
Over time, hematopoietic or blood stem cells can quietly acquire mutations that push them to divide just a…
Spray on polymer shield helps plants fight bacteria and survive drought
On a warming planet, your food supply depends on crops that can survive heat, drought and fast spreading…
Scientists discover onion-like layering in Earth’s inner core
Earth’s inner core has long challenged researchers because seismic waves do not move through it uniformly. Compressional waves…
Plasmid-borne resistance drives global expansion of dangerous Klebsiella strains
A recent study published in Engineering has shed light on the transmission and epidemiological trends of tmexCD1-toprJ1-positive Klebsiella…
Silica nanomatrix enhances immunotherapy for solid tumors
Cancer has long remained a leading cause of death worldwide and in Hong Kong, accounting for 30% of…
New computational method reconstructs how cells decide their fate
Researchers from Kyushu University have developed an innovative computational method, called ddHodge, that can reconstruct the complex dynamics…
Imaging-enhanced knowledge graphs reveal new targets for heart disease treatment
Knowledge graphs are a powerful tool for bringing together information from biological databases and linking what is already known…
Three black holes light up at once in rare three-galaxy collision
In a patch of sky about 1.2 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have found a cosmic rarity: three…
New insights into the global expansion of Candida auris
The fungal species Candida auris is spreading across the globe, and gaining in virulence, according to a new…
Ancient salt reveals a clear view of Earth’s atmosphere from 1.4 billion-years-ago
More than a billion years ago, a shallow basin in what is now northern Ontario held a subtropical…