Peppermint is one of the most recognizable flavors and fragrances on the planet, a hybrid mint whose cooling menthol punch...

For men diagnosed with localized prostate cancer, radiation treatment has long meant a difficult trade-off: either endure seven to eight...

A small lump on the adrenal gland is one of the most common accidental findings in modern medicine. Radiologists call...

A team of chemists at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University in Hangzhou has combined two unlikely partners—a camphor-scented molecule borrowed from traditional...

When we think about how animals cope with a human-dominated planet, we usually picture shifts in habitat, diet or migration...

Desertification is quietly redrawing the map of the habitable world. Across arid and semi-arid regions, fertile soil is degrading into...

In a discovery that could reshape how scientists think about flavor and medicine hidden inside citrus fruit, researchers in China...

Follicular lymphoma remains one of the most common yet stubbornly incurable forms of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a slow-growing cancer of the...

When a child snores loudly night after night, struggles to breathe while asleep, or wakes exhausted despite a full night...

Carbazole does not look like a superstar. It is a modest tricyclic molecule, a five-membered nitrogen-containing pyrrole ring fused between...

Deep in the river valleys of northeastern Asia grows a tree so unusual that botanists gave it a genus all...

Few ideas in modern manufacturing are as deceptively simple, and as stubbornly difficult, as teaching a machine to recognize when...

A polysaccharide extracted from Gastrodia elata, a traditional Chinese herb long used to treat dizziness and epilepsy, has emerged as...

Glioblastoma is the deadliest cancer that begins in the brain, and it announces itself with a median survival of only...

Gestational diabetes mellitus, one of the most common complications of pregnancy, has long been treated as a problem of hormones...

Vitamin B12 sits at the center of one of the most quietly important measurement problems in food science. The vitamin,...

Staphylococcus aureus has long been one of medicine’s most stubborn adversaries, a bacterium capable of thriving on skin, in wounds,...

Every day, at ports from Rotterdam to Shanghai, towering stacks of shipping containers present a deceptively simple puzzle with enormous...

Deep in the semi-arid steppes of western Algeria, shepherds of the Sfisifa region have been making a distinctive ewe’s milk...

For people living with multiple myeloma, modern medicine has delivered something once unthinkable: years of disease control, thanks to continuous...