For decades, sleep scientists have focused most of their attention on the drops in oxygen that punctuate the nights of...

A closely watched clinical trial testing whether an epigenetic drug could prime bile duct cancer for immunotherapy has returned a...

Graphs are everywhere. Whenever a delivery company models a road network, a power grid operator tracks the flow of electricity...

Every piece of meat that reaches a supermarket shelf carries an invisible history: the genetics of the animal, the stress...

Lung cancer kills more Hispanic men in the United States than any other cancer, yet the screening test that could...

A new study has revealed that perfluorononanoic acid, or PFNA, one of the most frequently detected ‘forever chemicals’ in human...

A team of researchers in India and Saudi Arabia has unveiled a family of polymer-coated magnetic nanomaterials with striking activity...

The mountains of discarded smartphones, LEDs and circuit boards piling up around the world contain a hidden treasure of critical...

Magnetic resonance imaging has long relied on a chemical compromise. Contrast agents sharpen the images that doctors depend on to...

Soils are not silent. Beneath every forest floor and every paddy field, trillions of microorganisms are dismantling organic matter, releasing...

A large analysis of national registry data has identified a simple, widely available biomarker that may help determine which patients...

One of the most stubborn problems in modern genomics has finally been given a serious new contender. Single-cell RNA sequencing...

Lutein, the golden-yellow pigment that accumulates in the human retina and shields our eyes from damaging light, has long been...

In the rugged, semi-arid highlands of north-eastern Ethiopia, a quiet experiment in genetics has been unfolding across village goat flocks...

wearable electronics have long faced an awkward trade-off. To sense the faintest tremor of a pulse, a sensor must be...

Deep in the semiarid backlands of northeastern Brazil, where cracked soils and scorching temperatures test the limits of plant life,...

Helicobacter pylori is one of the most successful human pathogens on the planet, quietly colonizing the stomachs of roughly half...

Generative artificial intelligence has swept into hospitals and clinics with a seductive promise: liberate physicians from the tyranny of the...

The Optica Foundation has announced the recipients of its 2026 prizes and fellowships, distributing six major awards across a field...

Urease is one of the most consequential enzymes in the microbial world. By hydrolyzing urea into ammonia and carbon dioxide,...