Every time a surgical robot reaches into a patient’s body, its control system needs to know exactly where the instrument...

Every textile engineer knows that the difference between a simple cloth and an advanced fabric lies not just in the...

War has always destroyed harvests, but a sweeping new analysis published in Nature Food shows just how systematically armed conflict...

Amino acids are the workhorses of modern medicine, and among the most sought-after members of this family are the arylglycines,...

A common bacterium that lives quietly on the human tongue may hold one of the most surprising clues yet in...

Strange metals are among the most perplexing states of matter in modern condensed matter physics. Found most famously in the...

Every parent has moments when a small transgression seems forgivable. But what happens when that habit of excusing wrongdoing becomes...

Walk down any supermarket aisle and the packages seem to be shouting about wellness. More than half of new food...

The world’s two largest biofuel industries—bioethanol and biodiesel—generate staggering mountains of waste every year. Sugarcane mills in Brazil alone produce...

Modern processors keep secrets badly. The Meltdown and Spectre revelations of 2018 showed the world that the innermost machinery of...

When an 18-month-old girl arrived at the hospital with a swollen left middle finger and a noticeably limited range of...

A team of chemists has shown that a single, carefully designed organic molecule can be coaxed into forming seven entirely...

Neuroscience is colliding with one of the defining political forces of the decade: the treatment of data as a national...

The way you speak may carry hidden fingerprints of cognitive decline, and a sweeping new analysis of a decade of...

In a result that rewrites the textbook picture of one of ultrafast science’s most trusted measuring tools, physicists have peered...

Modern biology has a data problem, and it is not a shortage of measurements. The latest sequencing technologies can now...

Walk through any European hospital today and you will encounter the same quiet crisis repeated in ward after ward: fewer...

In a flooded neighborhood on the edge of Brazil’s Recife metropolitan region, nearly one in three residents is carrying a...

Serverless computing has become one of the most popular ways to build modern applications. Instead of renting servers around the...

The Middle East and North Africa is ageing faster than most of its governments realise, and the region’s long-term care...