Durum wheat, the grain behind pasta, couscous, and countless other staples, just got a genetic boost from an unexpected ally:...

One of the most stubborn complications of modern cancer treatment may have met its match. A new retrospective study from...

Rheumatoid arthritis affects millions of people worldwide, and for most of them the first drug on the prescription is methotrexate,...

Buried within every human cell lies a molecular archive of ancient infections. Roughly eight percent of the human genome consists...

Every road surface tells a story in millimeters. The tiny peaks and valleys that make asphalt feel rough to a...

Some seeds refuse to die. Date palm seeds recovered from Herod’s Palace near Jerusalem, roughly 2,000 years old, have been...

When courts must decide whether a young person without valid documents is a minor or an adult, forensic experts turn...

Few sights in the animal kingdom are as instantly recognizable as the striped coat of a wild boar piglet. Those...

When a cheetah sprints across the savanna, its spine flexes and extends with every stride, storing and releasing elastic energy...

Caring for an older adult with lung cancer is one of the most demanding roles in modern medicine, and a...

The water lily is one of those rare plants that manages to be beautiful, delicious, and potentially medicinal all at...

In a bakery in Bangladesh, something unusual is rising in the oven. Researchers reporting in the open-access journal Heliyon have...

Self-supervised learning has become one of the defining techniques of modern artificial intelligence, powering systems such as GPT and SimCLR...

One of the most stubborn puzzles in cancer immunotherapy may finally be yielding to a closer look at the scaffolding...

Mesenchymal stem/stromal cells, or MSCs, have long been celebrated as the workhorses of regenerative medicine. Harvested from bone marrow, fat,...

Zeolites are among the most industrially important materials in modern chemistry. These crystalline aluminosilicates, with their vast internal surface areas...

When a virus slips into a human cell, the first hours of infection decide much of what follows. The cell’s...

Cholesterol is one of the most famous molecules in medicine, blamed for heart attacks and clogged arteries, yet it is...

Soil salinity is quietly strangling agriculture. Around the world, roughly a fifth of all irrigated farmland is now affected by...

When the first biosimilar version of insulin glargine arrived in the United States, policymakers and clinicians hoped it would do...