Chemicals use nanoplastics to penetrate human skin
Chemicals use nanoplastics to penetrate human skin, a Texas A&M study finds, showing protein coatings let particles linger in skin cells and carry toxins
Study finds poor-quality cancer drugs in four African nations
Study finds 17% of cancer drugs fail quality control across Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya and Malawi, based on 251 samples and HPLC testing of chemotherapy drugs
Midwest summer storms inject wildfire smoke into the stratosphere
Midwest summer storms inject wildfire smoke into the stratosphere via overshooting tops, a newly observed pathway that could affect ozone and climate stability
Researcher overcomes major hurdle in AI drug discovery
Vanderbilt researcher debuts a task-specific AI framework using interaction space to improve generalizability in drug discovery and reliably screen compounds
Astrophysicists propose using the Sun as a gravitational lens to image exoplanets at up to 25 km surface resolution, potentially spotting cities and pollutants
AI models outperform traditional climate predictions for coral reefs
New artificial intelligence models are providing a more accurate and timely understanding of coral reef health, surpassing the capabilities of…
Scientist argues Amazon outage reveals critical cloud computing vulnerabilities
An Amazon Web Services outage reveals vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure, as a DNS failure in US-EAST-1 sparked cascading outages across services
New study maps how brains process multiple words at once
An NYU study using MEG shows brain processes multiple words in parallel, routing acoustics, word forms and meaning across neural regions like a subway system
Personal networks provide the most benefit to global supply chains
Global supply chains, the intricate webs that deliver goods and services to people and businesses worldwide, are facing unprecedented challenges.…
Quantum networks sharpen the search for elusive dark matter
Quantum networks advance the hunt for elusive dark matter by linking sensors across three detectors and boosting detection sensitivity while reducing noise