For The Better

Scientists have uncovered potential therapeutic avenues for metabolic diseases.

People with HIV who have moderate immune suppression appear to be at greater risk of severe COVID-19 ‘breakthrough’ infection after vaccination, according to a new study.

Researchers have developed an automatic drawing machine that uses pens and pencils to draw metamaterials — artificially engineered composite materials that derive their properties from patterned microstructure — onto paper. They demonstrated the new …

An interdisciplinary team of researchers reports on how social norms — ‘patterns of behaviors or values that depend on expectations about what others do and/or think should be done’ — can be harnessed to bring about collective climate action and poli…

People who suffer from inflammatory bowel disease may soon have access to personalized dietary guidelines to keep them feeling well, thanks to new research on how dietary fiber affects the disease. The research team discovered that certain types of die…

If Russia’s war in Ukraine significantly reduces grain exports, surging prices could worsen food insecurity, with increases up to 4.6% for corn and 7.2% for wheat. That also would have an environmental impact, with carbon emissions rising as additional…

Watch any episode of ‘CSI,’ and a character will use forensic DNA profiling to identify a criminal. A new study suggests that these forensic profiles may indirectly reveal medical information — perhaps even those of crime victims — contrary to what t…

Every year around 2 million people die worldwide from hemorrhaging or blood loss. Uncontrolled hemorrhaging accounts for more than 30% of trauma deaths. To stop the bleeding, doctors often apply pressure to the wound and seal the site with medical glue…

Rapidly evolving floods are a major and growing hazard worldwide. Currently, their onset and evolution is hard to identify using existing systems. However, seismic sensors already in place to detect earthquakes could be a solution to this problem. Rese…

A new study that links the location of brain injury to levels of depression in patients following the injury has identified two distinct brain networks; one associated with increased depression symptoms and one associated with decreased depression symp…

Obesity has been a major global health issue in recent decades as more people eat unhealthy diets and fail to exercise regularly.

Using existing experimental and computational resources, a multi-institutional team has developed an effective method for measuring high-dimensional qudits encoded in quantum frequency combs, which are a type of photon source, on a single optical chip.

A recent study reveals a new dimension to the role of FA biosynthesis in plants by providing a direct link to the plant defense mechanism.

A recent study reveals a new dimension to the role of FA biosynthesis in plants by providing a direct link to the plant defense mechanism.

Virus capsids can be formed through the self-complementary assembly of a single class of protein molecules. However, mimicking nature by making higher-ordered structures from artificial molecules has proven difficult to achieve. A new assembly method c…

Researchers have discovered new RNA bacteriophages, viruses that attack bacteria, advancing understanding of virus evolution.

Scientists have created a model to study the role of RNA splicing defects in Alzheimer’s disease, revealing degeneration and toxicity caused by neuron hyperexcitability.