35+ min ago   (721+ words) A new qualitative study from China offers one of the most detailed maps to date of what patients with cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome actually value about their health, and the picture that emerges is strikingly broader than the clinical targets that dominate…...

56+ min ago   (70+ words) Scientists in China have found a way to lock superhard diamond particles into a high-entropy alloy coating so effectively that the material’s wear loss drops by more than 16 percent and its wear volume by over 40 percent compared with the alloy…...

59+ min ago   (68+ words) A voice-controlled home robot that can navigate a house, switch appliances on and off, and hold a natural conversation in multiple languages has been built for less than 10,000 rupees — roughly one-fifth of the cost of comparable commercial systems. The robot,…...

59+ min ago   (84+ words) Chronic kidney disease is one of the world’s most burdensome chronic conditions, a slow and often silent deterioration of renal function that affects hundreds of millions of people and frequently goes undetected until the damage is advanced. Staging the disease…...

1+ hour, 14+ min ago   (764+ words) Magnetic resonance imaging has long been the gold standard for peering into the human brain, but it has always demanded one precious commodity that many patients simply cannot spare: time....

1+ hour, 14+ min ago   (88+ words) The history of human industry is, in many ways, a history of how we connect materials. From the earliest metallurgical bonds forged by ancient smiths to the complex multi-material assemblies of the modern era, the ability to join advanced or…...

1+ hour, 20+ min ago   (655+ words) Artificial intelligence is no longer simply a tool that social scientists borrow from computer science. According to a sweeping new review published in the journal Artificial Intelligence Review, the relationship between AI and the social sciences has become a two-way…...

1+ hour, 20+ min ago   (84+ words) A sweeping new survey published in Multimedia Tools and Applications maps the full arc of the deepfake era, from the first crude face swaps to today’s diffusion models capable of producing hyper-realistic, temporally coherent synthetic video. The study, led by…...

1+ hour, 36+ min ago   (714+ words) A false claim can circle the globe before the truth has finished typing its rebuttal, and one of the most urgent questions in modern network science is deceptively simple to state: who started it? A new in-depth survey published in…...

2+ hour, 6+ min ago   (95+ words) Every seed is a masterpiece of biological engineering, a compact package in which molecular order and cellular design are woven together to protect and nourish a future plant. For scientists trying to understand how crops such as the yellow pea…...