For decades, the words intensive care and acute leukemia were spoken together with a sense of resignation. Patients with newly...

Nitrate is one of those molecules that quietly underpins modern civilization while simultaneously threatening it. As the dominant nitrogen ingredient...

Escherichia coli is one of the most genetically versatile bacteria known to science, capable of living as a harmless gut...

Text classification has quietly become one of the most consequential technologies of the digital age. Every time a spam filter...

For many women, the first place they turn when they notice an unexplained change in their bodies is not a...

When a 73-year-old man arrived at a Japanese emergency department with a week of fever and a productive cough, the...

A new radiation-grafted polymer that can pull zirconium and yttrium ions out of acidic solutions and then cleanly separate the...

Deep inside the nasal passages of one of the southern hemisphere’s most familiar seabirds, a tiny blood-feeding mite has been...

When a piece of music swells with joy or sinks into melancholy, human dancers respond instinctively, translating emotional nuance into...

Greater plantain, Plantago major L., is one of the most familiar medicinal plants in the world, a weed of roadsides...

When a woman is diagnosed with early breast cancer, one of the most consequential questions her surgical team must answer...

One of the most persistent challenges in autism treatment research has been a deceptively simple question: when a caregiver reports...

Chemists have long dreamed of converting nitrate, one of the most widespread water pollutants on the planet, back into benign...

Social bees are facing unprecedented pressures, from habitat loss and pesticide exposure to parasites and shifting climates, and scientists have...

Heavy metal pollution has become one of the most stubborn environmental problems of the industrial age. Lead, copper, chromium, mercury,...

Tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte therapy has moved from an experimental idea to an approved cancer treatment, and with that transition has come...

When artificial intelligence goes wrong in a hospital, the person most people assume will be held accountable is the doctor....

A new comprehensive review published in Discover Electrochemistry offers the most detailed roadmap yet for the materials that could finally...

A comprehensive new review has drawn together the scientific case for an unexpected source of cosmetic innovation: photosynthetic microorganisms that...

In a year marked by fierce competition and extraordinary scientific talent, the Blavatnik Family Foundation and The New York Academy...