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New Questionnaire Captures How and Why Adolescents Join Everyday Activities
Adolescence is a period of profound transformation, when young people begin carving out identities distinct from their parents, deepening peer…
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Steel and Carbon Fibers Turn Concrete Into a Self-Sensing Structural Material
Concrete has carried civilization for two millennia, yet it remains stubbornly blind. Engineers can measure how a bridge deck or…
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Metabolic Weak Point Found in Exhausted Immune Cells in Head and Neck Cancer
Immune cells often manage to reach head and neck tumors, but once inside, many of them stop doing their job.…
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Parents Who Understand Diabetes Care Better Carry a Lighter Burden, Study Finds
Caring for a child with type 1 diabetes is a relentless, around-the-clock job. Blood glucose checks, insulin injections or pump…
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Bare Gold Electrode Detects Trace Mercury in Water Without Nanocoatings
Mercury is one of the most notorious poisons in the global water supply, and detecting it quickly, cheaply and reliably…
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Hair Loss Signals Emerge in FDA Database as Biologics Draw New Safety Scrutiny
Biologic drugs have transformed the treatment of psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, inflammatory bowel disease, and a host of other immune-mediated conditions,…
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Before the First Breath: How Teams Prepare for Birth at the Edge of Viability
Few moments in medicine carry as much weight as the birth of an infant at the edge of viability. Babies…
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How Two African Nations Led Differently Through the COVID-19 Storm
When COVID-19 swept across the world in 2020, it tested health systems in ways few planners had imagined. A new…
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New Rendering Method Brings Realistic Tree Canopies to Real Time on a Memory Budget
Trees are the great paradox of landscape visualization. In any architectural rendering, urban planning model, or virtual environment, they are…
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Tiny Zinc Oxide Dots on a Borneol Polymer Wipe Out Bacteria as Well as Antibiotics
A team of chemists at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University in Hangzhou has combined two unlikely partners—a camphor-scented molecule borrowed from traditional…