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Amateur maps and sketches helped put Hong Kong’s wartime pillboxes on official charts
High on a 121-metre knoll above Starling Inlet in Hong Kong’s New Territories, 13 concrete pillboxes built during the Japanese…
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Systematic review maps sustainability tensions in offshore wind development
Offshore wind energy is widely recognised as a key contributor to the green energy transition and sustainable development, yet a…
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ZNF207 shields glutamine transporter ASCT2 from degradation to fuel liver cancer growth
Zinc-finger protein ZNF207 protects the glutamine transporter ASCT2 from ubiquitin-proteasome degradation in hepatocellular carcinoma, according to a study published in…
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Firebreaks Leave Lasting Scars in Grasslands While Wildfire Heals Fast
A low-intensity summer wildfire swept through some of Europe’s most treasured dry grasslands in eastern Hungary, and the vegetation barely…
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Palliative care nurses use four emotional regulation patterns, Chinese study finds
Nurses working in palliative care units face emotionally demanding situations, including patient deaths and distressed families, and manage these through…
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Hidden Peptides in Non-Coding RNAs Reshape Cardiovascular Biology
Non-coding RNAs have long been treated as the genome’s quiet background: transcripts that regulate genes but never produce proteins. A…
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Supersulfated cement outperforms Portland cement in curbing concrete’s alkali-silica reaction
Concrete structures around the world face a quiet chemical threat: the alkali-silica reaction, or ASR, in which alkaline ions from…
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Pennywort Leaf Extract Lowers Blood Sugar in Diabetic Rats, Study Finds
A water infusion made from the leaves of Hydrocotyle bonariensis, a creeping herb long used in traditional medicine across Côte…
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Testicular torsion study finds most Brazilian patients arrived too late to save the testicle
Testicular torsion is a race against the clock, and a new retrospective case series from a tertiary public urological emergency…
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WHO builds a 71-intervention rehabilitation toolkit for primary care
The World Health Organization has assembled a carefully filtered list of 71 rehabilitation interventions that doctors and nurses without rehabilitation…