Science

One of the world’s largest social programs greatly reduced tuberculosis among the most vulnerable

Brazil's Bolsa Família Program (BFP) is one of the largest conditional cash transfer programmes implemented worldwide. Since 2004, the BFP…

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New nanocrystal material a key step toward faster, more energy-efficient computing

Scientists including an Oregon State University chemistry researcher have taken a key step toward next-generation optical computing and memory with…

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Scientists unveil surprising human vs mouse differences in a major cancer immunotherapy target

Since its discovery in the 1990s, "programmed cell death protein 1," or PD-1, has been regarded as a leading target…

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The carbon in our bodies probably left the galaxy and came back on cosmic ‘conveyer belt’

Life on Earth could not exist without carbon. But carbon itself could not exist without stars. Nearly all elements except…

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AI can improve ovarian cancer diagnoses

A new international study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows that AI-based models can outperform human experts…

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Research on clozapine safety: Big-data evidence on rare blood cancer cases

An inter-departmental research team at the LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has conducted the…

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Increased wildfire activity may be a feature of past periods of abrupt climate change

A new study investigating ancient methane trapped in Antarctic ice suggests that global increases in wildfire activity likely occurred during…

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System to auto-detect new variants will inform better response to future infectious disease outbreaks

Researchers have come up with a new way to identify more infectious variants of viruses or bacteria that start spreading…

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Revolutionizing heat management with high-performance cerium oxide thermal switches

Groundbreaking cerium oxide-based thermal switches achieve remarkable performance, transforming heat flow control with sustainable and efficient technology. Thermal switches, which…

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Achieving bone regeneration and adhesion with harmless visible light

A research team led by Professor Hyung Joon Cha from POSTECH's Department of Chemical Engineering and Graduate School of Convergence…

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