Machine learning models are only as good as the features they are built upon, yet many of the algorithms used...

For nearly as long as artificial neural networks have existed, one rule has been treated as almost sacrosanct: never initialize...

Hospitals are, by their very nature, places of healing, but for certain patients they can also become places of profound...

When men who have undergone radiation therapy for prostate cancer log on to patient forums in the middle of the...

Meningiomas, the most common primary brain tumors in adults, may soon be stratified more accurately thanks to a new study...

A simple electrical test that measures how the skin reacts to a burst of stimulation may offer clinicians a faster,...

Timothy grass, the backbone of Northern European livestock farming, has long resisted the genetic revolution that has transformed breeding in...

For decades, one of the most stubborn obstacles in plant molecular biology has not been a lack of ideas or...

A team of researchers in China has uncovered a previously unrecognized molecular pathway that drives metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease...

In a development that could reshape the economics of clean energy conversion, an international team of researchers from Algeria and...

Researchers in Iran have engineered a dramatically shrunken version of one of diagnostics’ most promising low-cost platforms, achieving a more...

Coinage-metal chemistry has long been viewed as a delicate balancing act between light emission and molecular fragility, but a new...

In the highlands and lowlands of Ethiopia’s Awash River Basin, a quiet data crisis has been undermining one of the...

Musculoskeletal disorders now constitute one of the largest and most expensive health challenges on the planet, and a sweeping new...

In the sweltering, permanently air-conditioned city-state of Singapore, scientists have completed one of the most ambitious real-world tests yet of...

Optogenetics, the technique that allows researchers to switch defined cells on and off with light, has become one of the...

In one of the most comprehensive genomic investigations of its kind, researchers in China have delivered a sweeping portrait of...

A weekly dosing schedule for a decades-old leukemia drug appears to outperform the standard daily infusion regimen in hairy cell...

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the defining health threats of our time, yet the market for new antibiotics remains broken....

In a development that is drawing attention across the clinical microbiology community, physicians in Germany have reported the first known...