A school-based experiment in Ghana has delivered a strikingly simple message with potentially far-reaching consequences: when it comes to teaching...

Obesity has become one of the defining health challenges of the twenty-first century. According to the World Health Organization, more...

Wild African savannah elephants appear to do something remarkable during their frequent squabbles: they talk each other down with their...

In the quiet hours after closing time at Frankfurt Zoo, infrared cameras recorded something rarely seen by human eyes: the...

One of the most stubborn obstacles in implantable medicine is not the implant itself but the battery that keeps it...

Carbon-13 is one of the most quietly indispensable tools in modern science. Because it is a stable, non-radioactive isotope of...

Bacteriophages are the most abundant biological entities on Earth, yet for most of the genes packed into their compact genomes,...

Every cell in the body carries essentially the same genome, yet what distinguishes a neuron from a liver cell is...

Mine tailings are among the most inhospitable landscapes humans have created: vast expanses of crushed quartz sand with virtually no...

Heart failure has always been classified by its causes: a blocked artery here, a stiffened or enlarged heart muscle there,...

X-ray imaging is one of medicine’s most powerful windows into the human body, and its usefulness rests on a class...

Every cell in the mammalian brain carries the same genome, yet neurons in the cerebellar granule layer behave nothing like...

Implantable bioelectronics have long promised a future of battery-free medical devices that sit quietly inside the body, delivering therapy or...

Oxygen vacancies—tiny voids where an oxygen atom is missing from a metal oxide lattice—have long been suspected as the true...

For decades, biology textbooks have drawn a deceptively simple picture of the genome’s physical state: dark, tightly packed heterochromatin silences...

Simulating the fundamental forces of nature on a computer is one of the grand challenges of modern physics, and a...

A flowering plant long used in traditional Chinese medicine may hold a genuine molecular key to slowing aging, according to...

A stroke is one of the most devastating events the brain can endure, killing neurons and triggering a cascade of...

When two paediatric radiologists published a short commentary in 2015 under the Latin motto “mortui vivos docent” — the dead...

Artificial intelligence has swept into hospitals with dazzling promises: algorithms that read retinal scans better than specialists, models that predict...