A rare and devastating form of autoimmune encephalitis has long puzzled neurologists: patients develop severe sleep disturbances, breathing difficulties, and...

Medical implants save millions of lives every year, yet they remain vulnerable to two stubborn enemies: corrosion and infection. A...

Rice feeds more than half of humanity, yet its two great subspecies have taken strikingly different evolutionary paths when it...

Depth perception is one of the most fundamental challenges in computer vision, and for robots, autonomous vehicles, and augmented reality...

Sorghum has long lived in the shadow of wheat, rice, maize, and barley, ranking fifth among the world’s cereals with...

Ovarian cancer remains one of the most lethal gynecologic malignancies, and for decades researchers have pursued an idea that sounds...

Two aromatic plants native to central Argentina, known locally as poleo and peperina, are quietly emerging as serious contenders in...

A team of researchers in Japan has coaxed two bacteria working together to make one of the food industry’s most...

Hyperspectral imaging has long promised a kind of digital omniscience: sensors that capture hundreds of narrow spectral bands, revealing the...

A family of tiny, free-floating aquatic plants that most people walk past without a second glance is emerging as one...

Immunotherapy has transformed the outlook for people with advanced bladder and kidney cancer. Drugs known as immune checkpoint inhibitors, which...

People living in prisons, jails and forensic mental health facilities carry some of the heaviest burdens of psychological distress in...

On the reefs surrounding Sepanggar Island, off the coast of Sabah in Malaysian North Borneo, a bushy soft coral sways...

Federated learning has become one of the most consequential architectures in modern machine learning, allowing hospitals, banks, factories and smartphone...

Drought is one of the most punishing stresses a plant can face, and few crops feel that pressure more acutely...

A blood test that could help clinicians diagnose autism spectrum disorder in toddlers has moved a significant step closer to...

Goat milk has quietly become one of the most valued functional foods in the global dairy market, prized for its...

Every day, computational biologists release new methods for analyzing genomes, single cells, microbiomes and molecular signatures, and every day researchers...

Artificial intelligence systems that watch video have become remarkably good at recognizing what they see, but they remain surprisingly poor...

Butter cookies may be about to get a structural makeover that could reshape how the baking industry thinks about healthier...