Urea transporter B–mediated urea influx impairs platelet function by inducing protein carbamylation, leading to bleeding in advanced CKD.

Urea is the dominant nitrogen compound in human urine and represents a valuable fertiliser resource if enzymatic hydrolysis can be controlled during storage and processing. One method to recover urea ...

Kirstyn Hill has worked as a clinical pediatric and women’s health pharmacist since 2020. She was driven to work with a patient population that is not often able to easily speak up for themselves and ...

Stephen Lankenau has spent years studying how people use cannabis in everyday life. As director of Drexel University’s Medical Cannabis Research Center, he has watched legalization spread, products ...

Physicists have long been drawn to the nonlinear Hall effect: a subtle variant of the classical Hall effect, in which an electric voltage appears perpendicular to a current flowing through a material.

Shortly after Inauguration Day in 2025, Planet Money visited Little Village, a predominantly Mexican-American neighborhood in Chicago. It felt oddly quiet for what was usually a bustling part of the ...

Hantavirus pulmonary infection is a disease caused by some hantaviruses, not the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, contrary to widely shared online posts that misrepresented a document listing medical ...

Spironolactone is a generic drug prescribed for certain conditions, such as high blood pressure in adults. As with other drugs, spironolactone can cause side effects, such as dizziness and high blood ...

The world faces yet another shock. The war in the Middle East is upending lives and livelihoods in the region and beyond. It is also dimming the outlook for many economies that had only just shown ...

New research indicates that the long-term neurological impact of childhood trauma is not permanently etched onto the brain. An analysis of brain communication patterns in a group of individuals who ...

Inspired by the Olympian’s comeback, people are rediscovering the sports that once shaped them — and sharing their journeys online Emma Schaefer; Matthew Stockman/Getty After figure skater Alysa Liu ...

To some, METR’s “time horizon plot” indicates that AI utopia—or apocalypse—is close at hand. The truth is more complicated. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy ...