YouTube comments have long been dismissed as the internet’s noisiest backwater, a place where thoughtful discussion goes to die beneath...

Whose ethics govern when artificial intelligence enters the counselling room or the social worker’s caseload? A new study argues that...

Quantum computers promise computational power far beyond anything classical machines can achieve, but that promise comes with a fragile catch:...

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Quantum computers are being positioned to transform how the world’s energy systems are forecast and scheduled, according to a new...

In an era when antibiotic-free farming is no longer a niche aspiration but a regulatory and commercial reality, scientists are...

Vitamin E, one of the most widely studied antioxidant supplements in medicine, has returned to the center of liver research...

Latin America’s Creole cattle, the hardy descendants of the Iberian livestock that arrived with the first European colonists more than...

Cells that copy their genomes over and over without ever dividing may sound like a recipe for genomic disaster, but...

When Martin J. Hodson walked through the door of Dafydd Wynn Parry’s office at Bangor University in Wales on 20...

In a finding that could reshape how doctors track one of the most stubborn forms of thyroid cancer, researchers in...

Only about one in every fifty cardiovascular research papers published between successive editions of European Society of Cardiology guidelines ends...

Melatonin, the hormone best known for steering the body’s sleep-wake cycle, may also hold the key to taming a destructive...

Parkinson’s disease has long been defined by the microscopic inclusions known as Lewy bodies, dense aggregates of the protein alpha-synuclein...

Cigarette butts, long dismissed as a minor nuisance of everyday life, have now been shown to constitute one of the...

Peripheral neuropathic pain is among the most stubborn and debilitating conditions in modern medicine, a burning, shooting, or electric-shock-like torment...

The world’s plastics, fuels, and countless everyday chemicals begin with a deceptively simple chemical transformation: stripping hydrogen from saturated hydrocarbon...

Scientists have unveiled a detailed quantum-mechanical portrait of how phosphoric acid molecules anchor themselves inside proton-conducting polymer membranes, revealing cooperative...

Carbon capture technologies have long faced a stubborn trade-off: sorbent materials that bind carbon dioxide strongly enough to work in...

In the sprawling world of open-source software, developers rarely belong to just one team. A programmer contributing to a machine...