Beneath the arid expanses of north-central China, the faults that bound the western edge of the Ordos block are quietly...

For decades, neuroscientists have faced an uncomfortable trade-off: the equipment that lets them eavesdrop on the brain has too often...

Rechargeable lithium–sulfur batteries have long been heralded as one of the most promising routes beyond the limits of conventional lithium-ion...

Survival from critical illness has never been better, yet a growing body of evidence shows that many patients who leave...

The NLRP3 inflammasome has long been one of immunology’s most consequential and most guarded molecular machines. Sitting inside macrophages and...

A team of quantum physicists in Morocco has revealed that the strange geometry underlying quantum states and the efficiency of...

For decades, the hardness of the water flowing from household taps has been the subject of a persistent and often...

For decades, neuroscientists have marveled at the sheer speed of communication in the brain, and much of that speed depends...

Wikipedia has spent more than twenty years as one of the most intensively studied organizations on the planet, with over...

Millions of people with blinding retinal diseases face a treatment regimen that never truly ends: monthly or near-monthly injections of...

For decades, women who reached menopause later in life were often told the news was largely good: a longer exposure...

Scientists have unveiled a new computational framework that transforms the protein signatures circulating in human blood into concrete, testable hypotheses...

Hydrogen has long been heralded as the clean fuel of the future, yet the practical challenge of storing it safely,...

Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis is one of the most feared syndromes in medicine, a runaway immune firestorm in which the body’s own...

Why does a seemingly minor knock to the head leave one person with a headache that fades within days, while...

Deep inside every developing brain cell, its mitochondria are quietly holding their ground while everything around them changes. A new...

Recommendation systems quietly shape much of modern digital life, deciding which films appear on a streaming homepage, which restaurants surface...

Scientists have reported a new strategy for coaxing one of the brain’s most stubborn cell types to change its identity...

A rare and subtle combination of mutations in the tail of histone H3 may be quietly undermining the way pathologists...

Maize is one of the most consequential crops on the planet, feeding billions of people and anchoring agricultural economies across...