Tuberculosis remains one of humanity’s oldest infectious foes, yet its behavior in modern low-incidence countries is increasingly shaped by a...

Calcium and manganese may be humble minerals, but inside every eukaryotic cell they are tightly guarded commodities. The enzymes that...

Open-vocabulary object detection has quietly become one of the most consequential ideas in modern computer vision. Instead of being locked...

In a discovery that could reshape how farmers defend one of the world’s most important staple crops, researchers in China...

Gastric cancer remains one of the world’s most lethal malignancies, and oncologists have long struggled to explain why two patients...

One of the largest investigations ever conducted into the long-term effects of prenatal medication exposure has delivered a broadly reassuring...

A carefully formulated starter ration made from ingredients that Ethiopian smallholder farmers can already obtain locally has been shown to...

Physicists have long been fascinated by the strange behavior of matter at a second-order phase transition, the razor-thin tipping point...

Beneath the cracked, chalky surfaces of southern China’s degraded karst terrain, an unexpected biological empire has been quietly holding the...

A novel molecular imaging agent has delivered a striking performance against the long-reigning standard of cancer imaging. In a head-to-head...

A continuous glucose monitoring system marketed in Europe has, for the first time, been formally shown to satisfy a proposed...

Every time a muscle fiber forms, a single cell must perform one of the most dramatic architectural transformations in biology....

Quantum cryptography has long promised a future in which sensitive computations can be carried out collectively without any single party...

Timing is everything in the life of a plant. Flower too early and a late frost can destroy the reproductive...

Scientists at the Lausanne University Hospital and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have reported a striking proof of concept:...

Resting-state functional MRI has become one of the most widely used windows into the autistic brain. By measuring the spontaneous...

The batteries that could one day store electricity for entire cities face a stubborn enemy: fire. Sodium-ion and sodium-metal batteries...

In the crowded nucleus of every human cell, the two-metre stretch of DNA in each chromosome is constantly being read,...

Every time you unlock your phone with your face, ask a smart speaker a question, or let a car assist...

Conservation agriculture has been promoted across sub-Saharan Africa as a way to rebuild degraded soils, boost yields, and buffer smallholder...