Unnatural amino acids have become some of the most valuable building blocks in modern drug discovery, appearing in peptide therapeutics,...

When philosophers worry about artificial intelligence, one of their deepest anxieties has little to do with killer robots or runaway...

Two of West Africa’s most familiar plants, the medicinal shrub Vernonia amygdalina, widely known as bitter leaf, and the aggressive...

One of the most consequential shifts in modern prostate cancer diagnosis has now been documented at national scale: the overwhelming...

Congenital syphilis, a disease that should have vanished from a wealthy country with near-universal antenatal screening, is quietly leaving a...

Parasites are among the most successful and widespread forms of life on Earth, yet they remain chronically overlooked in conservation...

Cancer vaccines have long promised a way to teach the immune system to hunt down tumors, yet in clinical practice...

Cassava is one of the most quietly important crops on Earth. Across sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and tropical Asia, this...

A single magnetic resonance imaging session that sweeps across a dog’s entire body could one day replace the patchwork of...

Stroke is the second most common neurological complication in people with cancer, trailing only metastatic disease in the nervous system,...

Scientists have uncovered a previously hidden partnership inside one of the world’s most destructive crop pathogens, and the discovery could...

Artificial intelligence can now write essays, news stories, product reviews and exam answers that are often indistinguishable from human prose,...

Gastric cancer and gastroesophageal junction cancer together rank among the fifth most common malignancies worldwide and remain leading causes of...

For adults living with significant vision loss, the barriers to physical activity can feel insurmountable. Falls, social isolation, inaccessible facilities...

A fast-growing grass that can shoot to full height in a matter of months may be on the verge of...

Scientists have unveiled a new computational tool that promises to transform how researchers study one of the most important yet...

Smart contracts have quietly become the financial plumbing of the blockchain world. These self-executing programs, deployed primarily on platforms such...

Mangrove forests are among the most powerful carbon reservoirs on Earth, locking away vast quantities of so-called blue carbon in...

Interventional radiologists in the Netherlands have demonstrated that a cleverly engineered microcatheter with two separate channels can transform one of...

A simple change in when people eat—not what they eat—may hold unexpected promise for one of the most devastating neurodegenerative...