A 21-year-old man who spent three years battling unexplained fevers, swollen lymph nodes, and dramatic weight loss has become the...

For decades, one of the world’s most dangerous fungal pathogens has managed to survive the very drugs designed to destroy...

Pedestrian detection sits at the heart of some of the most safety-critical technology being deployed today. Autonomous vehicles must spot...

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Microplastics have become one of the most pervasive pollutants on the planet, turning up everywhere from the deepest ocean trenches...

Genomic medicine has a privacy problem that is getting harder to ignore. As hospitals and research consortia increasingly hand RNA-sequencing...

Spinal cord injury remains one of the most devastating conditions in medicine, and one of the most stubborn. The initial...

Some of the world’s most treasured medicinal plants are being killed by the very harvests that sustain traditional medicine. A...

For decades, cardiologists have wrestled with a deceptively simple question: when a patient with chest pain undergoes heart imaging, which...

The sizzle of pork belly hitting a hot wok is one of the most recognizable sounds in Chinese cooking, and...

Freezing bull semen is one of the cornerstones of modern cattle breeding, allowing prized genetics to be shipped across continents...

Deep inside the world’s hydropower plants, enormous turbine units spin day and night under punishing conditions, their health hanging on...

Oil palm plantations feed one of the world’s largest commodity markets, yet the trees that produce the vegetable oil in...

For decades, medical innovation has followed a familiar script. A new technology emerges from the laboratory, researchers publish early studies,...

Tuberculosis still kills more people than any other infectious disease, yet the single greatest obstacle to controlling it is not...

Every time a copper smelter pours molten metal into an anode mold, a quiet saboteur goes to work. A thin...

Fever has long been viewed as a generic symptom of infection, a byproduct of the immune system’s battle against invading...

Perovskite quantum dots are among the most celebrated materials in modern nanoscience, prized for their brilliant luminescence and size-tunable optical...

Beneath every sugarcane field lies an invisible workforce of bacteria and fungi that quietly decides whether the crop thrives or...