When a patient is admitted to an intensive care unit with severe meningitis or encephalitis, clinicians face two distinct and...

Large language models are being welcomed into hospitals at a pace that has outstripped nearly every safety discipline in modern...

A quiet revolution is sweeping through Sweden’s primary care clinics, driven by a national reform known as the Transition to...

Every time an animal learns to navigate a familiar environment, its brain quietly rewires itself at the molecular level. A...

Chronic pain affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide, and for many of them, implanted devices that stimulate peripheral nerves...

Tartrazine, the synthetic azo dye responsible for the bright yellow hue of countless soft drinks, candies, medicines and cosmetics, has...

Every pregnant woman on the planet now carries a chemical legacy in her bloodstream: a family of synthetic molecules known...

Iodine is one of those elements that most people encounter only as a grain of salt on the dinner table,...

Heavy water, or deuterium oxide, has long fascinated microbiologists. Because water participates in virtually every biochemical reaction, replacing ordinary hydrogen...

Cancer does not only grow; it devours. One of the most underappreciated drivers of poor outcomes in oncology is the...

Systemic lupus erythematosus has long baffled researchers with its striking bias: roughly nine in ten patients are women, and the...

Rockfill materials—the quarried rock masses that form the skeletons of embankment dams, road bases, and other heavy civil engineering structures—have...

Beneath every scorched European heathland lies an invisible workforce: saprotrophic fungi that decompose dead plant material, recycle nutrients, and keep...

Aboard a spacecraft, the air astronauts breathe is a closed loop, recycled endlessly through ducts, filters, and scrubbers with no...

Osteoporosis has long been treated as a disease of bone tissue alone, a slow thinning of the skeleton driven by...

Gastric cancer remains one of the world’s deadliest malignancies, ranking fifth among the most commonly diagnosed cancers and accounting for...

A text message program originally designed to treat anxiety appears to deliver an unexpected bonus: relief from depression. In a...

One of the largest studies ever conducted on the early-life home environment has found that the physical and biological characteristics...

Agriculture in Egypt is running at barely half of its sustainable potential, according to a new integrated assessment that puts...

A province-wide survey of people living with HIV-1 in Jiangxi Province, China, has revealed a dramatic transformation in the landscape...