Materials scientists at the University of Birmingham have identified a mechanism that overturns one of the long-standing assumptions of metallurgy:...

Endurance exercise is widely celebrated for its effects on the heart, muscles, and brain, but one of its most consequential...

A single transcription factor may be enough to rewrite the identity of a cell. In a study published in Cellular...

Artificial intelligence is sweeping through hospitals, classrooms, and research labs, but one group sits at a critical junction of this...

When a beam of high-energy electrons strikes a crystal of tryptophan, the humble amino acid best known for its role...

Identifying the thousands of small molecules circulating in human blood has long been one of the most stubborn bottlenecks in...

A sweeping analysis of nationally representative health data from the United States has found that the mixture of heavy metals...

Gray mold is one of the most destructive diseases in vineyards around the world. Caused by the necrotrophic fungus Botrytis...

Traction alopecia, the hair loss condition caused by prolonged or repetitive mechanical tension on the hair follicle, is one of...

Researchers in India and Taiwan have unveiled a new artificial intelligence framework that can detect cyberattacks across sprawling networks of...

Deep inside the human genome lie the remnants of ancient viral infections, sequences that make up more than 40 percent...

Concrete is the most-used man-made material on Earth, and its glue—ordinary Portland cement—is responsible for roughly eight percent of global...

Chordomas are among the rarest and most stubborn tumors in medicine. Arising from embryonic remnants of the notochord, the structure...

Cone-beam computed tomography, or CBCT, has become one of the most widely deployed imaging technologies in modern medicine, prized for...

Deep in the Apennine mountains of central Italy, European beech forests that were carefully reshaped by conservationists a decade ago...

Imagine a detective sketch drawn not from a witness’s memory, but from a few cells left at a crime scene....

A short holiday of excess eating may be enough to set the immune system on edge, according to a new...

Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of illness and death worldwide, claiming more lives each year than any other condition,...

In the world of livestock genetics, few transformations are as visually striking as the one undergone by Junken meat sheep....

The same family of crystalline materials that has electrified the solar power world is now being recruited for a very...