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Intravenous therapy is one of the most common interventions in modern medicine, yet it remains one of the most technically...

A new review has delivered a verdict that may surprise laboratory scientists who equate cutting-edge technology with best practice: when...

A provocative claim has been circulating in biology and philosophy for more than a decade: we have never been individuals....

A team of computer scientists at Somali National University in Mogadishu has built and verified a prototype system that could...

Chinese agriculture has long been trapped in a thorny triangle of interlocking problems: farmers apply too much chemical fertilizer, conventional...

A rare and devastating cancer of the voice box has been documented in extraordinary clinical detail, offering one of the...

A single bowl of wild vegetable soup was enough to trigger one of the most sobering plant-poisoning investigations published in...

Twistronics has become a kind of modern alchemy for condensed matter physicists. By taking atomically thin layers of crystalline materials,...

One of the world’s most familiar probiotic bacteria has revealed a surprising survival trick, and it may change how scientists...

Burn injuries affect more than 11 million people every year, and the search for dressings that do more than simply...

For millions of women diagnosed with breast cancer each year, surviving the disease is only the first step of a...

For decades, one of the most persistent hypotheses in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) research has been deceptively simple: patients...

Temporomandibular joint osteoarthritis, a degenerative disorder that slowly erodes the cartilage cushioning the jaw, affects millions of people who struggle...

Every year, vast quantities of nitrogen fertilizer applied to pastures and croplands are transformed by soil microbes into nitrate, a...

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One of the most stubborn problems in industrial robotics is deceptively simple to describe: slide a peg into a hole....

Rice farmers and quarantine inspectors may soon have a powerful new weapon against one of the world’s most destructive rice...