Emergency departments around the world share a stubborn problem: patients arrive in waves that never quite match the number of...

A humble shrub long steeped in traditional medicine has delivered one of the more intriguing anti-aging results of the year....

A new study from China adds to mounting evidence that the so-called forever chemicals pervading modern life may interfere with...

Pepper is one of the most economically important vegetable crops in the world, yet scientists trying to understand which of...

Male infertility is responsible for roughly half of all infertility cases worldwide, yet the standard diagnostic tool, conventional semen analysis,...

Arsenic is one of the most pervasive environmental contaminants on the planet, seeping into drinking water and food supplies from...

Scientists studying how plants fend off one of agriculture’s most destructive groups of pathogens have uncovered a molecular switch that...

A robotic baby harp seal named PARO has been comforting elderly patients in care homes for two decades, reducing anxiety...

In a striking reminder of how rarely the human brain follows textbook rules, clinicians have reported the case of an...

Agarwood, the dark, resin-saturated heartwood formed when Aquilaria trees respond to injury and microbial attack, is one of the most...

Orthopedic implants have transformed the treatment of fractures and bone defects, yet implant-associated infection remains one of the most stubborn...

What makes an everyday activity feel worthwhile? For most people, the answer is invisible, woven into routines like cooking a...

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma remains one of the deadliest cancers in the world, and one of the hardest to treat with...

Time series data are everywhere: heart rhythms on a hospital monitor, sensor streams from a factory floor, stock prices ticking...

Every thought, movement, and sensation in the brain depends on a molecule that most people have never heard of. Glutamate,...

Tea is the most widely consumed functional beverage on the planet, yet the molecular logic behind its celebrated health effects...

Ulcerative colitis has long been framed as a disease of overactive immunity, a condition in which the immune system attacks...

Every estuary has a heartbeat, and for the first time scientists have watched one beat across an entire harbor, day...

Periodontitis, the chronic inflammatory disease that destroys the tissues anchoring teeth in the jaw, affects a large share of adults...

Every oyster farm in South Korea’s southern coastal waters floats on a quiet environmental disaster. Roughly 24 million expanded polystyrene...