In the landscape of neurodegenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis looms as one of the most unforgiving diagnoses. The disease attacks...

Diagnosing disorders of the esophagus has always been as much art as science. When patients complain of dysphagia—the difficulty swallowing...

Every year, millions of people lose their memories, their reasoning and their independence to vascular dementia, the second most common...

Artificial intelligence may soon be able to detect one of breast cancer’s most dangerous hidden features before a surgeon ever...

Glioblastoma, the most aggressive and lethal primary brain tumor in adults, has long frustrated oncologists with its ability to evade...

In the dense machinery of gene regulation, few molecules have proven as paradoxical as MED1, a subunit of the Mediator...

In a discovery that could reshape how scientists think about back pain, researchers in China have mapped, molecule by molecule,...

Avian influenza viruses are continuing to circulate widely in the environments where humans and poultry intersect in China, even as...

In a finding that challenges the long-standing assumption that viruses are simply burdens to their hosts, researchers in China and...

Petroleum refinery sludge is one of the least hospitable environments on Earth—a toxic cocktail of hydrocarbons, heavy metals, and chemical...

In the most comprehensive survey of natural selection across our closest living relatives to date, an international team of researchers...

Scientists in China have assembled, for the first time, the complete mitochondrial genome of Asparagus cochinchinensis, a medicinal herb cherished...

Rice feeds more than half of humanity, but its flooded paddies come with a hidden atmospheric cost: waterlogged soils trap...

In the transitional hills where the Mediterranean climate of Türkiye’s southern coast gradually yields to the harsher continental conditions of...

Every ton of cement produced releases roughly as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as the chemical reaction it carries...

Turning crop leftovers into high-performance, non-toxic superabsorbent gels is one of the more quietly exciting frontiers in green chemistry, and...

Researchers have unveiled a comprehensive new blueprint for the future of agriculture, introducing a concept called the Farming of Things...

Diabetes affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide, and roughly one in four of them will face a complication that...

Materials that glow under stress have long been a dream for engineers who worry about the silent failure of plastics,...

In a result that is already sending ripples through the fields of neuroscience and drug design, chemists at the University...