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By engineering oxygen vacancies in indium oxide, we uncover a non-noble-metal plasmonic catalyst that harvests near-infrared light and promotes methanol steam reforming through coupled photothermal and hot-carrier effects.

Intimacy, including sex and the experience of pleasure is an innate human need and a primary mode of connection between people. Why should it be so difficult to talk about?

Human longevity is one of medicine's oldest ambitions. Cureus invites you to put the field under the microscope, from senolytics and NAD+ to new cardiac and cancer procedures, and win Preferred Editing services for your future work. Submit by 16 October 2026.

Invasive Salmonella infections—typhoidal fever caused by S. Typhi and invasive non‑typhoidal Salmonella bacteraemia—claim hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide. The situation is worsened by rapidly rising antimicrobial resistance.

Gas separation is essential to industry but consumes large amounts of energy. Mixed-matrix membranes combining polymers with metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) could help, but the possible combinations run into the millions. We combined molecular simulations with machine learning to explore them.

CLABIO 2027 brings the electrical bioimpedance community to Florianópolis, Brazil, 27–30 June 2027. Held under ISEBI, this edition pairs the scientific programme with a demo day, startup pitches and an industry exhibition, connecting laboratories, companies and investors.

Seahorses are masters of camouflage, but their colour changes are not instantaneous. New research explores how environmental cues, visual perception, and pigment dynamics work together to shape gradual colour shifts that unfold over several days.

Delayed rupture of vaginal wall haematoma causing secondary postpartum haemorrhage—successful management with bilateral uterine artery embolisation Li C, Wang X, Li H, et al. Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2026. DOI: 10.1186/s13256-026-06465-2

Mental Health is a Topic created to increase visibility and impact of research in this area and facilitate exchange amongst researchers.

A quiet crisis unfolds daily at Offa Specialist Hospital as patients choose which essential meds to skip due to costs. Our study uncovers the heavy toll of polypharmacy in Nigeria.

We invite studies that uncover how cellular senescence contributes to ageing, including its molecular drivers, immune interactions, and tissue-specific dynamics.

We now invite submissions that employ manipulative and experimental approaches in communities of macroorganisms to investigate species interactions and their consequences for ecological networks.

Researchers in Spain looked at the helminths infecting the endangered Cantabrian brown bear population to determine what influence seasonality and bear activity may have on helminth species prevalence, and to feed into decisions for critical conservation efforts to safeguard the bears.

Our latest article published in Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics examines an Overshooting Convective Storm that occurred on June 1, 2018, over the Western Ghats. We identified 16,587 OCS grid points, revealing intense convection and significant rainfall. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00703-026-01153-8

Viral myocarditis reveals an immune paradox: innate immunity protects the heart from viruses but can also drive cardiac injury. In our new review in Experimental & Molecular Medicine journal, we explore this balance and how timing, location, and immune context may guide more precise therapies.

Shane Tilton is Professor of Multimedia Journalism at Ohio Northern University (USA). He's author of several Palgrave titles, including Writing Multimedia Journalism. Here, he and his editor Robin James discuss the impact journalists' humanistic labor has in society.