Quantum communication researchers have long promised a future in which confidential messages travel across optical networks without ever being reduced...
Cancer cells are notoriously adaptable, and one of the most striking examples of that adaptability has now been pinned down...
For hundreds of thousands of people whose kidneys no longer work, haemodialysis is a lifeline that runs on a surprisingly...
A major new scientific publishing venture has officially opened its doors to the global research community with the launch of...
Erectile dysfunction has long been treated in the clinic as a problem of blood flow, but the cellular story behind...
A single mathematical idea has quietly become the beating heart of nearly every transformative artificial intelligence system of the past...
Beneath every flooded rice paddy lies an architecture most people never think about: a three-dimensional labyrinth of soil crumbs, ranging...
Dogs with the most common and aggressive form of lymphoma may soon benefit from a clearer molecular map of their...
For more than a decade, one of the most celebrated properties of molybdenum disulfide has also been one of its...
Ionic liquids have long been heralded as the futuristic solvents of the carbon-capture world: salts that flow like liquids at...
Every year, the textile industry discards millions of tons of wool waste, a protein-rich material that most often ends up...
Herbicide residues in drinking water have become one of the most stubborn contamination problems of modern agriculture, and a new...
Researchers at the University of Florida and Kyung Hee University have isolated strains of Bifidobacterium longum from healthy dairy calves...
High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) is the most lethal gynecological malignancy, and its notorious heterogeneity has frustrated efforts to find...
A carefully controlled laboratory experiment in Belgium has delivered one of the most rigorous direct tests yet of the double...
A team of chemists in Iran and Georgia has found a way to make a family of drug-like molecules using...
Structural variants—large-scale rearrangements of the genome that include deletions, duplications, inversions and insertions of thousands to millions of DNA letters—are...
Tunnels are among the most dangerous places a fire can break out. Confined geometry traps heat and smoke, emergency access...
Vitamin D3 is one of the most stubborn nutrients in the human diet. It is fiercely lipophilic, essentially insoluble in...
When a child arrives at the emergency department with bilious vomiting, the specter of midgut volvulus looms over every decision...
