1+ hour, 47+ min ago   (84+ words) When forensic investigators recover human remains, one of the first and most fundamental questions they must answer is simple to ask but often difficult to answer: was this person male or female? A new study published in the International Journal…...

1+ hour, 47+ min ago   (55+ words) A conversational agent that listens not only to what users say but to how they say it has shown in a controlled experiment that it can make guided work in mixed reality feel noticeably more usable and supportive, even though…...

2+ hour, 4+ min ago   (55+ words) Soluble magnesium composites are emerging as one of the most intriguing materials of the decade, promising tools that dissolve on command downhole in oil and gas wells, and implants that quietly disappear inside the human body once their work is…...

2+ hour, 4+ min ago   (520+ words) A new study is challenging one of the most common assumptions in the fast-growing field of biological aging research: that the different blood tests used to measure how fast a person is aging are, at some level, measuring the same…...

2+ hour, 11+ min ago   (75+ words) A new comprehensive review published in the Journal of Nanoparticle Research surveys one of the most quietly promising corners of nanomedicine: carbon dots, nanoscale specks of carbon that are showing remarkable ability to kill bacteria and dismantle the sticky biofilms…...

2+ hour, 14+ min ago   (625+ words) Pancreatic cancer remains one of the most formidable diagnoses in modern medicine, and a new case report is drawing attention for a strikingly inventive solution to one of its most stubborn clinical problems....

2+ hour, 14+ min ago   (536+ words) Scientists at Shanghai Jiao Tong University have unveiled a quantum neural operator that promises to squeeze genuine machine-learning power out of today’s noisy, error-prone quantum processors....

2+ hour, 14+ min ago   (678+ words) Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium responsible for gonorrhea, remains the second most prevalent bacterial sexually transmitted infection worldwide and has become a central figure in the escalating global antimicrobial resistance crisis....

2+ hour, 14+ min ago   (521+ words) Bacteria are famous for forming patterns, from the concentric rings of Proteus colonies to the branching networks that motile microbes paint across agar plates. Now researchers at Columbia University have turned one of biology’s most familiar workhorses, Escherichia coli, into…...

2+ hour, 14+ min ago   (80+ words) Bacterial wilt, caused by the soil-borne pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum, is one of the most destructive plant diseases in the world, striking tomatoes, potatoes, bananas and hundreds of other crops. Once the bacterium establishes itself in a field, it is notoriously…...