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New Insights Reveal How the Atlantic Circulation Changes and Moves
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, has long been described as one of Earth’s great climate engines: a vast…
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New chip replicates how cancer spreads through the body
Cancer’s deadliest move is often not the growth of the original tumor, but its ability to travel. Metastasis, the spread…
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Mussels Show Signs of Fear, Too
For a blue mussel, eating can be a dangerous business. The animal survives by filtering seawater through its body, extracting…
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Ultrafast Activation of Strong Coupling in a Semiconductor Terahertz Fabry-Pérot Cavity
A new study reports a way to switch on strong light–matter coupling inside a semiconductor terahertz cavity almost instantaneously, opening…
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Human Multi-Organ Chip Offers New Insight Into Cancer Metastasis
Cancer metastasis is responsible for at least two-thirds of cancer deaths. Drugs targeting the metastatic progression have largely failed, in…
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Rare Immune Cell Type in Supercentenarians May Help Maintain Healthy Aging
Aging is accompanied by an increased risk of certain diseases, alongside weakened immunity to illnesses that younger individuals might easily…
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Baseline clinical features outperform MRI in predicting rapid cognitive-motor decline in Parkinson’s
Parkinson’s disease may be entering a new era of prediction, in which the earliest clues to a patient’s future are…
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Recurrent Cystitis Linked to Urologic Cancer Risk in Nationwide Study
A common bladder infection may be prompting a much bigger medical question than doctors once assumed. A nationwide population-based study…
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On-Chip Nonvolatile All-Optical Accelerator for Residual Neural Networks
Light could soon become more than a carrier of data. In a new study published in Light: Science & Applications,…
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Researchers uncover sex-based differences in liver structure and function
The liver has long been viewed as a broadly similar organ in men and women, with differences often attributed mainly…