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The hippocampus plays a central role in converting short-term into long-term memory and is particularly vulnerable to inflammatory injury. Cognitive impairment is a recognized sequela of bacterial meningitis. Isolated loss of memory formation due to bilateral hippocampal destruction is rare.

Socially Engaged Buddhism is reshaping our approach to global crises by merging mindfulness with activism. This paper explores its evolution and impact through case studies and key figures. Published in the Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research.

Hello, researchers! Today, let's explore a profoundly challenge at the intersection of climate change and reproductive health. As global temperatures rise and extreme weather events multiply, how are our most sensitive populations—pregnant mothers and developing fetuses—faring?

This Collection invites original research on the development and application of digital twins for security testing, aiming to advance secure-by-design principles in complex systems.

This Collection welcomes original research that integrates genomics, ecology, and conservation planning.

The Nature Conference on pediatric cancer care will take place on 11-12 November 2026 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA! It will bring together global experts, researchers, clinicians, policymakers, and patient advocates to address the urgent challenges and opportunities in childhood cancer care.

For World Asthma Day 2026, the International Primary Care Respiratory Group discusses this year’s theme of access to anti-inflammatory inhalers and how the Asthma Right Care change programme provides a growing collection of practical resources to support primary care in improving patient outcomes.

Hello, researchers! Today, I want to spotlight a critical, yet often overlooked, intersection in public health and environmental science: the impact of climate change on the aging population. As extreme weather events become the new normal, how are our most vulnerable demographics faring?

Porous glasses from zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) show strong potential for gas separation applications. By applying concepts from silicate glass science, we developed a strategy to tune their structure and properties, expanding the currently limited chemical design space of ZIF glasses.

Developmental enhancer-promoter loops can persist into adulthood. Although inactive due to missing trans factors, these latent chromatin interactions encode regulatory memory. We show they can be leveraged to identify pathogenic regulatory mutations using adult chromatin interaction maps.

The International Conference on Computational Modeling and Sustainable Energy (ICCMSE2026) will be organized at Pandit Deendayal Energy University from 20–22 November 2026. https://www.iccmse.com/

This review looks at obesity-related erectile dysfunction from a different angle. Instead of treating adipose tissue as a passive background factor, we argue that dysfunctional fat depots can actively drive the vascular, hormonal, inflammatory, and smooth muscle changes that impair erection.

When and where did mountains host their largest glaciers? Driven by this question, an interdisciplinary group of researchers developed GLACIMONTIS, a global geodatabase of reconstructed mountain paleoglaciers at the Last Glacial Maximum.

While reading an interesting article published in Science (1), I wondered whether mechanical load alongside its related nesprin 2 overexpression could also play a role in the inhibition of benign and malignant tumours originating from skeletal and smooth muscle tissues within various body sites.

The note gives the exact genesis of the Knuth-Statistician debate. Statistical bound and its empirical estimate, Empirical O (Oemp), are fully explained with applications.

This is a dose escalation of a dual AAV vector gene therapy for Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff diseases in which a novel bithalamic infusion process was used. The broad distribution of axonal connections of thalamic neurons enables transport of the normal B-hexosaminidase A enzyme throughout the cerebrum.

The complex mechanics of contacts at the nanoscale elucidated using synchrotron beams with the aid of continuum modelling

Contemporary AI is framed as aiding decisions. This article argues it reshapes how decisions form by organising attention and pre-structuring choices. The space for deliberation narrows, making judgment appear efficient while altering agency itself.