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Engineers have long dreamed of millimetre-wave signals so pure that their timing never wavers by more than a few quintillionths...

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More than four years after the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic ended, one of the most persistent questions in...

Few discoveries in modern condensed matter physics have energized the community quite like the rise of the nickelate superconductors. Since...

Textiles have accompanied humanity for thousands of years, but the fibres that make up our clothing have remained, for the...

Colorectal cancer remains one of the deadliest and most frequently diagnosed gastrointestinal malignancies in the world, and clinicians have long...

Deep in the mountain fynbos of South Africa, a frog smaller than a fingernail is quietly rewriting what scientists thought...

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A single pollutant, swallowed by a pregnant mother in doses that would not raise eyebrows at a seafood counter, may...

Fiscal policy has long been a blunt instrument in the hands of governments, but a growing body of research suggests...

A team of statisticians and geneticists has unveiled a powerful new computational method that promises to untangle one of the...

Methadone remains one of the most effective medications available for opioid use disorder, yet in the United States it is...

Across the planet, more than a billion hectares of farmland are quietly being poisoned by salt. As irrigation water evaporates...

The algorithms that decide who gets a credit card, a mortgage, or a business loan are among the most consequential...

One of the most stubborn puzzles in cancer immunotherapy may have just cracked open. In a study published in Advanced...

Deep beneath the skin of hundreds of thousands of children worldwide, a slender silicone tube quietly performs one of medicine’s...

A liposome is, in the textbook picture, a deceptively simple object: a hollow sphere of phospholipid bilayer that can carry...

Perovskite solar cells have spent a decade shattering efficiency records, but their Achilles heel has always been chemistry at the...