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The particle-laden smoke chemically evolves as it travels to the capital city.

A patient-facing conversational AI showed promising feasibility and safety in a single-center primary care setting, providing a basis for larger-scale evaluation.

Growing up among the folk shrines of southern Fujian, urban researcher Fengjue Huang reflects on how the gods wedged between buildings carry a city’s cultural memory — and why planners should write ...

Severe sunburn increases the risk of developing melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer. Credit: Olga Pankova/Getty. A ...

Salicylic acid is a central regulator of plant growth and immunity, yet key steps in the biosynthesis of its precursors have remained unresolved. Two complementary studies in rice identify the missing ...

Trauma is a physiological wound, which can be penetrating or nonpenetrating, caused directly or indirectly by external physical force.

Ion channels are integral membrane protein assemblies that modulate the flow of ions into and out of a cell or organelle, leading to generation of electrical signals. Opening (gating) of ion channels ...

Fungal biology is the scientific discipline that concerns the biology of fungi, which include unicellular microorganisms as well as large multicellular organisms. Fungal biology is sometimes called ...