In a striking demonstration of how engineering can stand in for biology, researchers in the Netherlands and Switzerland have shown...

Microwave ablation, one of the most widely used locoregional treatments for liver cancer, may do far more than simply destroy...

Artificial intelligence is often described as a force of nature, an autonomous wave of technological progress that societies must simply...

A team of Romanian researchers has developed a disposable, stamp-sized electrochemical platform capable of distinguishing between the two mirror-image forms...

The world’s ports handle billions of tonnes of cargo every year, and at the heart of the container terminal sits...

A new artificial intelligence model that reads time series data the way a skilled human analyst might—by looking at both...

Reinforcement learning has always had a quiet flaw at its heart: most of the algorithms that power it assume the...

Researchers at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town have reported a systematic development process aimed at building...

Soil salinization is quietly strangling global agriculture, rendering once-fertile fields barren as sodium accumulates in the ground faster than crops...

In a comprehensive new review published in Molecular Biology Reports, researchers from Hangzhou Medical College and Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital...

The immune system of the chicken has long fascinated immunologists because it operates with a stripped-down, elegant version of the...

The trillions of microbes that inhabit the human gut have long been suspected of playing a role in colorectal cancer,...

Cadmium is one of the most troubling contaminants in the global food supply, and chocolate has become one of its...

For patients with drug-resistant mesial temporal lobe epilepsy, the decision to operate hinges on a question that has long frustrated...

Osteoarthritis affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide, yet the treatments available to them remain stubbornly palliative. Painkillers, anti-inflammatory drugs...

In a development that could reshape how engineers join lightweight metals for batteries, aerospace structures and power electronics, a team...

Machine learning has delivered a green-chemistry win for the pharmaceutical industry, as researchers in China report the discovery of a...

The world of semiconductor packaging may be on the verge of a quiet materials revolution. Researchers in India have demonstrated...

Fine-grained visual classification has long been one of the most stubborn problems in computer vision, and a new study published...

In the sprawling landscape of modern machine learning, few challenges are as pervasive—or as deceptively difficult—as making sense of data...