When hormone therapy stops working in metastatic breast cancer, patients and their oncologists face one of the most difficult junctures...

A simple, inexpensive squeeze of sugar gel rubbed into a newborn’s cheek has been promoted for more than a decade...

As global temperatures climb and ocean conditions shift at an accelerating pace, one of the most urgent questions in conservation...

When a person types a vague, jargon-heavy, or context-dependent request into a computer system, the machine often misses the point....

Digital agriculture has promised a revolution in how farms are managed, from GPS-guided machinery and IoT sensors to sophisticated farm...

Triple-negative breast cancer remains one of the most formidable challenges in oncology. Lacking the three molecular targets—estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor,...

Ischaemic heart disease remains the single largest killer in Central Europe, but a new analysis of the Global Burden of...

A team of materials researchers in India has shown that adding small amounts of cerium to nickel-magnesium ferrite nanoparticles can...

A bright yellow pigment produced by the common soil bacterium Micrococcus luteus could offer the textile industry a genuinely sustainable...

A helicopter’s tail rotor is one of those components that most passengers never think about and most pilots hope they...

The soundtrack playing over a restaurant’s speakers rarely registers as a deliberate influence on what ends up on the plate....

A young breast cancer survivor’s deeply personal account of trying to build a family after a cancer diagnosis is drawing...

Recurrent high-grade glioma remains one of the most formidable challenges in clinical oncology. Glioblastoma multiforme, the most common and aggressive...

MicroRNAs, the short strands of RNA that fine-tune gene expression after transcription, have become some of the most intensively studied...

Some of the most consequential failures in modern technology announce themselves not as dramatic events but as subtle deviations in...

A new preclinical study suggests that the next leap in obesity medicine may not come from a single blockbuster molecule,...

Fire safety and structural strength rarely pull in the same direction when engineers design polymer composites, but a new study...

A humble by-product of lily bulb processing, long discarded as agricultural waste, may be on the verge of becoming one...

Deduplication is the unglamorous housekeeping step of every systematic review. Before a single abstract is screened, reviewers must merge the...

When a twelve-year-old boy walked into Children’s Hospital of Fudan University in Shanghai, his coronary arteries told a story of...