A team of ophthalmologists in China has put some of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence chatbots through one of...

Beneath the rolling tea gardens of India’s Kangra Valley, an invisible ecosystem of bacteria, fungi and archaea is hard at...

Every year, hundreds of millions of mobile phones are retired, and inside each of them sits a small lithium-ion cell...

In the highlands and lowlands of rural Ethiopia, what a family grows on its own plot may matter more to...

Chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy has moved from an experimental concept to one of the most consequential breakthroughs in...

Continuous glucose monitors strapped to competitive endurance athletes have revealed something striking: when the starting gun fires, blood sugar behaves...

Corrosion costs the global economy hundreds of billions of dollars every year, and few materials illustrate the challenge better than...

Kimchi, the fiery fermented staple of Korean cuisine, has a microbial dark side that food scientists are only now learning...

A team of researchers in India has transformed an everyday plastic into the heart of a working proton battery, and...

Glyphosate is the world’s most widely used herbicide, and its spread does not always stop at the edge of the...

For decades, mitochondrial DNA disorders have stood among the most stubborn challenges in medicine: a group of inherited neurometabolic diseases...

Polycaprolactone, better known as PCL, has quietly become one of the most versatile biodegradable polyesters in modern materials science, finding...

Every time an Anopheles mosquito bites a person, it injects a cocktail of salivary proteins into the skin. The human...

Machine learning has a dirty secret: the labels that teach it are often wrong, or at least incomplete. In real-world...

For most of the past half-century, biology textbooks have drawn a hard line between two arrested cell states. Quiescence was...

Cholera remains one of the most unforgiving infectious diseases known to medicine. In a healthy adult, the bacterium Vibrio cholerae...

Antimicrobial resistance remains one of the most pressing threats to modern medicine, and researchers around the world are racing to...

Smart farms run on a quiet promise: that the sensors watching soil moisture, temperature, and nutrient flow are telling the...

Adolescents and young adults diagnosed with cancer between the ages of 15 and 39 occupy a uniquely turbulent chapter of...

At the 2026 American Society for Radiation Oncology Annual Meeting, held September 26 through 30 in Boston, physicians and scientists...