Trajectories of obesity prevalence over the past 45 years reveal patterns of growth, plateau and decline that differ across high-, middle- and low-income countries.
LAP1-B--an ultra-faint and tiny galaxy that formed in the reionization era and is strongly magnified by gravitational lensing--is chemically primitive and hosts very few stars in an otherwise dominant dark matter halo.
The last antimicrobial peptide was developed decades ago. Now, drug-resistant bacteria are forcing scientists to take a fresh look at this class of antibiotic.
Trials of drugs to fight deadly resistant infections are advancing, but they might fall victim to overuse of agricultural fungicides just like their predecessors.
A programmable photonic quantum processor, Jiuzhang 4.0, incorporates 1,024 high-efficiency squeezed states into a hybrid spatial-temporal encoded 8,176-mode circuit.