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Health & Medicine

A new way to prepare doctors for difficult conversations

URochester researchers have developed SOPHIE, a virtual ‘patient’ that trains doctors to communicate better.

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Health & Medicine

New platform combines precision gene targeting with brain-wide delivery

The platform overcomes a key obstacle to delivering gene therapies throughout the brain.

Overhead shot featuring several editions of The Settlement Cook Book alongside Jewish foods like bagels, babka, and hamantaschen, with the central focal point on Nora Rubel's book, "Recipes for the Melting Pot: The Lives of the Settlement Cook Book."

Society & Culture

The cookbook that taught generations of Jews how to become American

A new book reveals how The Settlement Cook Book became an unlikely guide to immigration, assimilation, memory, and belonging.

Health & Medicine

Researchers harness the body’s internal clock to improve stroke recovery

The findings could open the door to more effective therapies that help the brain heal after a brain injury.

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Science & Technology

AI reveals how the brain clears harmful waste

The new approach combines MRI scans and AI tools to measure fluid flow linked to diseases such as Alzheimer’s.

Five different colored vials holding seawater, Great Salt Lake water, nickel sulfate, copper chloride wastewater, and desalinated water standing next to a pile of salt.

Science & Technology

New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste

The energy-efficient desalination system produces fresh water without chemical additives and transforms leftover salts into useful materials.

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Health & Medicine

New research finds yoga eases symptoms for cancer survivors

A special yoga intervention goes a step further than other therapies to address the side effects that most cancer patients experience.

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Science & Technology

Researchers use large language models to discover recipes for novel materials

The LLMs can discover optimal, step-by-step instructions to accelerate the discovery of new materials.

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Science & Technology

Hidden ocean feedback loop could accelerate climate change

Researchers identify how warming oceans may trigger increased methane emissions, adding a key insight for current climate models.

Close-up of a nanoparticle in a phonon laser beam.

Science & Technology

Quantum researchers engineer extremely precise phonon lasers

Novel lasers utilize individual particles of vibration or sound to measure quantum mechanics and gravity.