Hefei Botanical Garden has assembled more than 5,000 plant species, rescued 73 nationally protected trees from decline, and restored 200 hectares of degraded wetland, all while embedding itself in the rural economy around it.

By isolating individual cerium atoms inside zeolite pores, researchers converted renewable ethanol into isobutene with dramatically improved efficiency — a step toward replacing petrochemicals in plastics and fuel production.

A six-country team led by Austria's ISTA will combine field observatories in the Rockies, Andes, Pamir, and Himalaya with AI-accelerated physics models to produce the first worldwide reanalysis of mountain water — and identify tipping points before communities lose supply.

Researchers isolated a lactic acid bacterium from kimchi that clings to nanoplastics even in gut-like conditions, boosting fecal excretion of the particles more than twofold in germ-free mice. The finding hints at a biological route to clearing ingested plastic.

Lawrence Toll co-discovered nociceptin, the fourth opioid receptor ligand, in 1995. Three decades and nine patents later, the FAU professor has been named a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors for translating pain and addiction science into real therapeutic targets.

By engineering how different states of light interact inside a lattice of tiny ring resonators, researchers created multiple protected channels along the same pathway — turning what was a single-lane road for photonic data into a robust multi-lane highway.

A large study using wearable heart-rate data found that people who regularly exercised in the early morning had significantly lower rates of heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and high blood pressure — independent of how much total exercise they got.

Deaths from hypertension-related heart disease among U.S. women aged 25-44 surged from 1.1 to 4.8 per 100,000 between 1999 and 2023 — a more than fourfold increase that researchers say reflects delayed diagnosis and overlooked cardiovascular risk.

High alcohol intake raises mortality risk regardless of what you drink. But at low to moderate levels, wine drinkers had significantly lower death rates than those who favored beer, cider, or spirits, a major UK Biobank analysis finds.

WSU geologists traced Idaho's massive silver and cobalt deposits to residual brines left by evaporating shallow seas over 1.2 billion years ago. The salty fluids dissolved metals deep underground and redeposited them in minable veins near the surface.

A new predictive tool developed by University of Copenhagen researchers uses U.S. outbreak data to map where and when H5N1 is most likely to jump from wild birds to Danish cattle herds - pinpointing western coastal regions and winter months as the danger zone.

A manganese-doped bismuth ferrite thin film grown on standard silicon delivers five times the energy-harvesting efficiency of earlier versions, opening a realistic path to mass-produced, lead-free vibration sensors.

For decades, MS patients had almost nothing. Ludwig Kappos helped build the clinical trial framework that turned a hopeless diagnosis into a manageable disease -- and changed how we understand progression itself.

For the first time, researchers decoded intended leg movements directly from nerves in above-knee amputees, using implants thinner than a human hair and an AI that speaks the nervous system's own language of electrical spikes.

The European Psychiatric Association launches a sweeping action plan targeting misdiagnosis, workforce shortages, and vulnerable populations — but delivering precision psychiatry across 47 nations demands more than good intentions.

ETH Zurich researchers used an enzyme from watermelon seeds to bind sawdust with the mineral struvite, creating a lightweight, fully recyclable building panel that delays ignition threefold and may match cement-board fire ratings at a fraction of the carbon cost.

Engineers at TU Graz built a neuroadaptive virtual reality system that monitors EEG and heart rate during arachnophobia therapy, automatically dialing spider intensity up or down based on objective stress signals rather than a therapist's guess.

A longitudinal study reveals that brain vascular lesions in Down syndrome don't simply accumulate over time — they fluctuate and even shrink, challenging assumptions about irreversible damage and reshaping how researchers approach Alzheimer's therapies.

A Loma Linda University study dismantles the widespread belief that baby rattlesnakes are more dangerous than adults, showing adult snakes deliver far more venom and cause substantially worse symptoms.

A University of Michigan poll of Americans over 50 finds that 32% are unpaid caregivers, yet many don't know about respite programs or adult day services that could ease their burden — especially those without their own support networks.

A study of 1.16 million heart procedures across 1,243 hospitals in Japan found that relaxing facility requirements for rotational atherectomy expanded access without increasing complications, offering a model for evidence-based healthcare policy reform worldwide.

An eye-tracking study from Waseda University and MIT reveals that the brain actively predicts sentence structure in real time rather than waiting for all the words. Japanese speakers learning English adopt English-like prediction patterns instead of transferring their native strategy — a finding with implications for language teaching and AI.

An analysis of 88.8 million deaths across 653 European regions reveals that the poorest communities face twice the mortality risk from air pollution as wealthy ones, even as renewable energy cuts particulate matter by up to 54%.

A groundbreaking liquid biopsy developed by Oxford and Tanzanian researchers slashes Burkitt lymphoma diagnosis from 47 days to just 6.5, offering hope for children battling a cancer that is over 90% curable when caught early but kills more than half its victims due to delayed detection.

California lost $1.1 billion to drought in a single year. Now a massive single-cell study of nearly one million plant cells has identified FRO6, a gene that could help crops survive water scarcity without sacrificing growth — a breakthrough for climate-stressed agriculture worldwide.