High in the alpine meadows of Uttarakhand, in the western Himalaya, some of the world’s most valuable medicinal plants are...

Lung adenocarcinoma, the most commonly diagnosed form of lung cancer, remains one of medicine’s most stubborn adversaries. Despite decades of...

A simple score built from four routine clinical measurements—systolic blood pressure, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, glycated hemoglobin, and C-reactive protein—appears to...

One of the most stubborn problems in molecular biology is producing a complete and accurate catalogue of the protein interactions...

Bismuth telluride has long been one of the most celebrated materials in condensed matter physics, prized as a topological insulator...

Amaranth has fed people for thousands of years, yet it has long lived in the shadow of staple crops such...

When lung cancer spreads to the brain, it does something far more cunning than simply invading new territory. A comprehensive...

When colorectal cancer spreads to the liver, the stakes could hardly be higher. Patients typically receive chemotherapy before surgery to...

Inside every cell that makes up the human body, thousands of genes are switched on and off with extraordinary precision....

Illegal fundraising has become one of the most slippery targets in financial regulation. Schemes no longer announce themselves through a...

In the water-starved marshes of northwestern China, the common reed Phragmites australis has perfected a quiet act of biochemical thrift....

For two decades, Ethiopia has been celebrated as one of the great access-expansion stories in global health. Thousands of health...

Cotton is one of the most economically important fiber crops on the planet, yet its fields are increasingly battered by...

For children and adolescents with cerebral palsy, the road to stronger, more coordinated movement has traditionally run through clinics: weekly...

Rising temperatures are quietly reshaping the battle between plants and the viruses that attack them. One of the clearest examples...

In 2019, a string of vehicle burglaries near the Dead Sea in Israel left behind something more valuable to investigators...

Deep beneath the steaming waters of the Innot hot springs in North Queensland, Australia, microbial communities have been quietly evolving...

Tunnels are among the most unforgiving environments in civil engineering. Buried beneath mountains and cities, their concrete linings endure crushing...

Salt is quietly strangling one of the world’s most important crops. As irrigation and climate pressures push salts ever deeper...

In a quiet operating theatre at a British veterinary hospital, tissue that would normally have been discarded after surgery instead...