The global spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza has exposed a persistent weakness in the world’s diagnostic arsenal: the tools...

Cadmium contamination in rice paddies is one of the quiet crises of modern agriculture. The heavy metal, released into soils...

One of the most stubborn killers in oncology is quietly being re-understood at the level of its molecular plumbing. Head...

Few moments in medicine carry more weight than a conversation about goals of care. When a patient faces a serious,...

Every year, the world applies millions of tonnes of agrochemicals to crops and consumes billions of doses of pharmaceuticals, yet...

Inside every bacterial cell, RNA molecules carry far more information than their sequence of bases alone. After transcription, the four...

Financial markets have long been known to behave in ways that defy the tidy mathematics of classical finance. Asset prices...

Maize is the backbone of Uganda’s food economy, feeding millions of people every day and supplying millers, traders and regional...

Prostate cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed cancer among men in the United States after skin cancer, and the blood...

A comprehensive new longitudinal study from China has upended some common assumptions about how parental depression shapes adolescent internet addiction,...

Chemists at the University of Kashan have unveiled a multifunctional nanomaterial that works equally hard as a green synthetic catalyst...

A devastating fungal pathogen that strips yield from wheat fields across the globe has revealed a remarkable talent for molecular...

A new genome-editing strategy described in Nature promises to push DNA writing far beyond the limits of existing tools. The...

Agrarian landscapes across the globe are saturated with pesticides, and more than 60 percent of the world’s agricultural land is...

Glioblastoma remains the most feared diagnosis in neuro-oncology. Despite surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy, the tumor almost invariably returns, driven in...

In a striking illustration of how far the reach of inflammatory bowel disease can extend beyond the gut, clinicians have...

Deep inside every modern jet engine, turbine blades spin in gas streams hotter than the melting point of the superalloys...

In the densely populated highlands of eastern Ethiopia, smallholder farmers are watching their climate change in real time, and most...

Solving a plane geometry problem is deceptively hard for a machine. A human student glances at a diagram, reads a...

A mature soybean plant is, to a computer vision system, one of the most confusing objects in agriculture. Stems wind...