Soft robots have long promised the kind of adaptable, muscle-like movement that rigid machines cannot match, but most of them...

Sleep is one of the most undervalued vital signs in medicine, and a new study suggests that for adolescents and...

A groundbreaking life cycle assessment of 90 commonly consumed Indonesian foods has revealed staggering differences in how efficiently the country’s...

In the humid forests of Mexico, a metallic blue-green dung beetle engages in a form of parental devotion that is...

The explosive growth of smartphone-based location data has transformed how scientists study human mobility, how cities plan transportation networks, and...

Non-small cell lung cancer remains the deadliest malignancy worldwide, claiming more lives each year than any other form of the...

Forensic scientists in South Africa have shown for the first time that the skulls of children carry measurable, population-specific signals...

Physicists at the University at Buffalo have produced a mathematical solution to one of the most striking puzzles in modern...

A new study has uncovered the molecular machinery that allows the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum to sense hostile conditions in...

Engineers and computer scientists face a familiar dilemma when designing almost anything complex: improving one objective often means sacrificing another....

Cancers that affect women exclusively—breast, ovarian, cervical, and endometrial—are often treated in oncology as four separate organ sites, each with...

Influenza B virus has long lived in the shadow of its influenza A counterpart, attracting less attention from researchers and...

A rare and devastating inherited immune disorder may have a new path toward treatment, thanks to a proof-of-concept study demonstrating...

Researchers at Zhejiang University and the Zhejiang University of Water Resources and Electric Power have unveiled a new framework that...

A sweeping new review argues that a technology capable of reading a soil’s chemistry from the way it reflects light...

Calcitriol, the hormonally active form of vitamin D, has long been suspected of harboring anticancer properties, but the precise molecular...

For more than a decade, hospitals around the world have experimented with a simple idea: instead of asking every patient...

Haemorrhagic septicemia, an acute and often fatal bacterial disease of cattle and buffalo caused by Pasteurella multocida serotypes B:2 and...

The construction of a virus has long been imagined as a feat of molecular engineering so efficient that it borders...

Pancreatic cancer remains one of medicine’s most unforgiving adversaries, claiming lives at a rate that has made it the third...