8+ 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…...

8+ min ago   (81+ words) In one of the most remote corners of Australia, a quiet revolution in child health is unfolding around campfires, swimming holes and shared meals. A new qualitative study published in The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific describes how a week-long…...

8+ 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…...

33+ min ago   (617+ words) A landmark multi-institution study has revealed that the neighborhood a patient with metastatic breast cancer lives in may be written into the biology of the tumor itself....

35+ min ago   (671+ words) Pediatric radiology is, by almost any measure, deeply meaningful work. Radiologists, technologists, nurses, and child life specialists spend their careers peering inside the bodies of sick children, catching diseases early, guiding treatment decisions, and supporting families through some of the…...

35+ 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....

35+ min ago   (431+ words) Photodynamic therapy, or PDT, has long been regarded as a precisely local cancer treatment: a photosensitizing drug is delivered to a tumor, light of a specific wavelength activates it, and the resulting reactive oxygen species destroy the illuminated cells....

35+ min ago   (618+ words) Rapeseed, one of the world’s most important oilseed crops and a cornerstone of global vegetable oil production, has long presented growers with a difficult trade-off. Planting more seeds per hectare can raise yield potential and make fields better suited to…...

58+ min ago   (81+ words) Bladder cancer remains one of the most challenging malignancies in modern urology, and a newly published comprehensive review in the Journal of Translational Medicine argues that the field is standing at the threshold of a diagnostic revolution. The review, led…...

1+ hour, 12+ min ago   (90+ words) There is a moment, familiar to anyone who has dropped a quail egg into boiling water, when a humble ingredient becomes something considerably more complicated. Six minutes of bubbling transforms the dense, buttery yolk into a matrix whose smell, chemistry…...