Melatonin has long been celebrated as the brain’s chemical messenger of darkness, the hormone that rises at nightfall and gently...

Every year, mountains of old roofing membranes — the tough, waterproof sheets stripped from homes and commercial buildings during renovations...

Every leaf, tassel, and ear of corn traces its origin to a dome of actively dividing cells smaller than a...

Researchers have unveiled a lithium-ion battery separator that pairs the workhorse durability of polypropylene with the rapid biodegradability of poly(butylene...

Excessive daytime sleepiness is one of the most stubborn and disabling symptoms in sleep medicine, and a new exchange in...

Artificial intelligence has learned to fix one of optical metrology’s most persistent headaches, and it did so without any special...

In the forested hills and agricultural heartland of Kanker district in Chhattisgarh, Central India, the water that millions of rural...

Humidity is one of those deceptively simple physical quantities that turns out to be extraordinarily difficult to measure well. Anyone...

Every night, across farmlands in China and much of the world, light traps lure nocturnal insect pests toward glowing panels,...

The immune system’s ability to hunt down and destroy cancer cells depends on a delicate molecular recognition process, one that...

Quantum computers promise to reshape computation, communication, and information science, yet the field remains haunted by a stubborn problem: the...

In an era when three staple crops—maize, wheat, and rice—feed more than four billion people, scientists are turning their attention...

In a discovery that could reshape the diagnosis of a baffling rare lung disease, researchers at Harvard Medical School and...

Wakame, the tender brown seaweed prized in kitchens from East Asia to California, has a flavor problem. Between the moment...

Deep in the mountains and arid plains of Iran, a quiet revolution in plant science is taking shape under the...

Mitochondria have long been cast as the simple power plants of the cell, churning out ATP while the nucleus runs...

The road to elite sport is often portrayed as a triumph of talent and willpower, but new research suggests that...

Cigarette smoking remains one of the most stubborn public health challenges on the planet, a habit that continues to drive...

What if the key to keeping meat fresher for longer has been hiding in a giant, mild-mannered cousin of ordinary...

Coal remains a cornerstone of the global energy supply even as renewables expand, and its extraction carries a hidden prize:...