Modern agriculture has quietly become one of the most data-intensive industries on the planet. Fields dotted with soil sensors, drones...

Indian mustard, one of the world’s most important oilseed crops, has long frustrated breeders trying to exploit hybrid vigor on...

Every cancer treatment decision begins with a sample. A surgeon or oncologist takes a small piece of tumor, sends it...

High on a ridge in the Huaral Province of Peru, a team of chemists and biologists has been quietly collecting...

Every bite a carnivore takes leaves a microscopic signature on its teeth. Scratches, pits, and fine polish accumulate on dental...

Biomass is one of the most abundant renewable carbon reservoirs on the planet, locked inside agricultural residues, forestry waste, and...

In the humid lowlands of Nigeria, inside the fields of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), a quiet revolution...

When doctors destroy a liver tumor with heat, the body responds in a remarkable and fleeting way: the tissue immediately...

A single microscopic molecule has been quietly sabotaging cancer patients’ survival chances across the entire spectrum of human tumors, and...

Few foods provoke as much fascination and revulsion as the century egg, the Chinese delicacy in which fresh duck eggs...

A temperate virus recovered from the western Pacific Ocean is prompting virologists to rethink how much diversity remains hidden among...

A sharp dispute over scientific censorship has erupted inside the pages of HardwareX, the leading peer-reviewed journal dedicated to open-source...

Polycystic ovary syndrome, the hormonal disorder that affects an estimated 5 to 15 percent of women of childbearing age worldwide,...

For millions of cancer survivors, the most enduring legacy of chemotherapy is not the tumor it destroyed but the tingling,...

For the growing population of elderly patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement, one anatomical feature has long haunted cardiologists: the...

Coal-fired power plants supply a large share of India’s electricity, but they also leave behind one of the country’s most...

In the world of structural biology, few decisions seem as deceptively simple as choosing a chemical cross-linker. Yet that choice...

As societies across East Asia and Europe slide into what demographers call the super-aged condition, where more than one in...

More than four decades after Tucson’s south side stopped receiving drinking water laced with industrial solvents, the psychological imprint of...

A sweeping survey of the viruses harbored by cats and dogs across Shanghai has overturned a widely held assumption about...