For more than half a century, the molecular machinery that keeps sugar beet from fertilizing itself has remained one of...

A compound extracted from a fungus long prized in traditional medicine may finally be ready to realize its anticancer potential,...

A new review published in the International Journal of Obesity is sounding the alarm about one of the fastest-growing liver...

Chemists at Razi University in Kermanshah, Iran, have unveiled a new metal-free catalyst that welds two of green chemistry’s favorite...

A carton of ultra-high-temperature, or UHT, milk looks deceptively simple: heat-treated, sealed, and shelf-stable for months without refrigeration. Yet behind...

A fungal enzyme once deemed too fragile and too scarce to engineer has been transformed, through laboratory evolution, into a...

Imagine standing in front of a screen that shows a living, breathing replica of your farm: every soil moisture probe,...

A team of neurosurgeons and clinical neurophysiologists at King’s College Hospital in London has reported that a non-invasive brain stimulation...

A 41-year-old Nepalese man living in Japan arrived at a hospital with abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting that had begun...

Bladder cancer remains one of the most common and deadly malignancies worldwide, and researchers continue to hunt for molecular clues...

Quantum technologies have long been limited by an awkward mismatch: the wavelengths where quantum light sources work best are rarely...

A devastating fungal pathogen that destroys enough rice each year to feed 60 million people may finally face a serious...

The time of day at which patients with advanced cancer receive immune checkpoint inhibitors may be far more consequential than...

When the next pandemic arrives, decision-makers will once again face agonizing choices about closing schools, restricting travel, mandating masks, and...

Restoring drained peatlands has become one of the most celebrated tools in the fight against climate change, prized for its...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has selected Mississippi State University to host its newest Cooperative Institute in the Northern...

Alfalfa, the queen of forage crops, feeds hundreds of millions of livestock around the world, yet its flowering behavior has...

A team of researchers at the University of Fukui in Japan has put two very different ways of hunting cancer...

Dry eye disease affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide, and for many sufferers the condition is far more than...

Platinum may be the undisputed champion of oxygen reduction catalysis, but it has an Achilles’ heel: it falls apart. In...