As the semiconductor industry pushes power densities to levels that would have seemed fantastical a decade ago, heat has quietly…

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Metabolomics, the large-scale study of small molecules in biological systems, has long faced a stubborn interpretability problem. Researchers can measure…

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Multiple myeloma, an incurable cancer of the bone marrow’s plasma cells, has long defied doctors’ attempts to predict its course.…

Children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder face a markedly elevated risk of three little-known feeding and eating disorders —…

Aging hearts fail quietly. Over decades, the muscle cells that keep blood moving lose their ability to generate energy, accumulate…

Concrete is famously strong in compression and famously terrible in tension. For decades, engineers have compensated by drowning brittle cement…

For years, agricultural scientists have promoted crop diversification as one of the most reliable levers for building soil organic carbon,…