Anomaly detection in time series data underpins some of the most consequential applications of modern machine learning, from catching irregular...

Deep in the center of the brain, in the narrow corridor where the pituitary gland meets the hypothalamus, a small...

A sixteen-year-old boy with no medical history, no family history of epilepsy, and nothing more sinister than a five-day run...

A new computational method promises to sharpen one of the most fiddly tasks in modern microbiology: telling apart the many...

A new generation of electronic cigarettes is quietly transforming nicotine and cannabis consumption into something that resembles a mobile game...

In the highlands of western Ethiopia, a simple act of restraint is quietly rebuilding the ground beneath farmers’ feet. A...

Immunotherapy has transformed the treatment of many cancers, but breast cancer has remained stubbornly resistant to one of its most...

A team of chemists and microbiologists has unveiled a one-pot, three-component strategy for building pyridopyrimidine derivatives using bismuth(III) triflate, a...

A sweeping metatranscriptomic survey of blood-feeding insects in Colombia has revealed an unexpectedly rich and variable landscape of viruses, bacteria,...

Few problems in data mining are as deceptively simple to state and as brutal to solve as finding patterns that...

Trillions of microorganisms live on and inside the human body, in the soil that grows our food, and in the...

Clear cell renal cell carcinoma, the most common and most lethal form of kidney cancer, has long frustrated oncologists with...

What keeps older adults coming back to the park at dawn, to the community gym, or to the tai chi...

In the rugged highlands of North Shoa, Ethiopia, a quiet energy revolution is taking shape around an unlikely resource: cow...

For more than a decade, the promise of two-dimensional semiconductors has been shadowed by a stubborn manufacturing problem: the best...

In modern cancer medicine, few moments carry as much weight as the day a patient and their doctor decide that...

Few medical fields have been transformed as rapidly as obesity medicine. Potent injectable medications can now strip away a fifth...

A hormone best known for making us feel hungry has turned out to be a surprising accomplice of one of...

Artificial intelligence systems that recommend medications to hospital patients have long been promised as a way to help clinicians sift...

In the intensive care units where traumatic brain injury patients fight for their lives, monitors stream torrents of physiological data...