Pulsed laser deposition has long been one of the most versatile tools in the thin-film physicist’s toolkit, capable of turning...

A white grape byproduct that wineries usually discard may hold the key to protecting the developing intestine from inflammatory damage,...

Researchers have unveiled a biomimetic nanoparticle platform based on graphitic carbon nitride that can modulate light across multiple biological scales...

In the deserts of North America, a small, fierce rodent has long puzzled biologists with its apparent indifference to pain...

Optoelectronic oscillators, the photonic engines that generate some of the purest microwave signals on Earth, have long been trapped by...

Dry-fermented sausages have long been prized for their intense, savory character, but the same chemistry that creates their flavor also...

A sweeping community screening campaign in North Sumatera, Indonesia, has uncovered a burden of cardiovascular risk factors so large that...

For decades, geneticists have grappled with a stubborn problem: genome-wide association studies have linked thousands of DNA variants to human...

Deep learning models can cost millions of dollars to train, and as stolen or pirated copies of these models spread...

Freshwater is the most extracted natural resource on the planet, and agriculture consumes the lion’s share of it, accounting for...

Age-related hearing loss, known medically as presbycusis, is one of the most common sensory deficits of human aging, gradually robbing...

Single-cell CRISPR screens have transformed functional genomics by allowing researchers to knock out or modulate thousands of genes at once...

Cerebral palsy is the most common physical disability of childhood, affecting roughly two to three children per thousand live births...

The space between cancer cells has long been treated as biological scaffolding, a passive framework that simply holds a tumour...

For decades, the hunt for the genetic causes of retinitis pigmentosa has focused almost exclusively on protein-coding genes, the stretches...

For two decades, the promise of nanomedicine has been haunted by an uncomfortable statistic: a landmark meta-analysis estimated that, on...

A woman’s reproductive history may be written into the very architecture of her breast tissue, long before any disease develops....

When a blood clot chokes off the supply of oxygen and glucose to a region of the brain, the neurons...

A scientific paper that examined the genomic divergence of leopards living in South Africa’s Cape Floristic Region has been retracted,...

Artificial intelligence systems are increasingly being asked to do something that sounds paradoxical: forget. As regulators around the world tighten...