Fabrics that kill bacteria, shield the skin from ultraviolet radiation, conduct electricity, and even clean themselves under sunlight are no...

For decades, microbiologists have treated the anaerobic breakdown of fats into methane as an obligatory team effort. Long-chain fatty acids,...

Medical image segmentation, the task of teaching computers to trace the exact outlines of organs and lesions inside CT scans,...

People living with HIV face a quiet epidemic that has little to do with the virus itself. As antiretroviral therapy...

The human brain, with its unmistakable walnut-like landscape of ridges and grooves, is among the most complex structures in the...

A team of communications engineers in Taiwan has built a system that lets a drone flying past a building facade...

Anembryonic pregnancy, a form of early miscarriage in which a gestational sac develops but an embryo never forms, accounts for...

When the weather turns cold, plants do more than slow their growth. Deep inside their reproductive cells, the very machinery...

Every newborn footprint gets recorded, every hearing screen logged, and every heel-prick blood sample sent for testing. Yet one of...

Chronic fatigue is one of the most disabling yet least understood symptoms in modern medicine. Roughly one in five people...

A single transcription factor may hold the keys to how skin ages, according to new research published in BMC Biology...

Back pain driven by degenerating spinal discs afflicts hundreds of millions of people worldwide, yet treatment options have barely moved...

Raising a child with autism spectrum disorder is often described as a labor of love, but for many mothers it...

Coral reefs occupy less than one tenth of one percent of the ocean floor, yet they shelter roughly a quarter...

A team of computational chemists in India has mapped, atom by atom, the behavior of one of the least explored...

Anorexia nervosa has long been described as a disorder of thought and behaviour, but a sweeping new analysis suggests that...

For decades, the human genome has been described as a book written in a language that biologists can read only...

A biodegradable polymer that can snap back into its original shape while simultaneously generating electricity has been demonstrated in new...

Fatty liver disease has quietly become one of the most common chronic conditions on the planet, and its most dangerous...

In a finding that could reshape how farmers protect livestock from the invisible toll of oxidative stress, researchers in China...