Osteoporosis has long been framed as a disease of older women, but a new systematic review of randomized controlled trials...

Medical students staring at flat CT scans may soon have a much better way to learn what kidney tumors actually...

In a finding that could reshape how dermatologists and psychiatrists think about one of medicine’s most burdensome skin diseases, researchers...

Mental health services in Denmark are testing whether a simple but demanding promise—no patient with co-occurring mental illness and substance...

The dream of a quiet supersonic airliner has long been haunted by an old idea with a century-old pedigree: the...

Underwater robots are learning to understand one of humanity’s oldest and most instinctive gestures: pointing. In a study published in...

In a region where the family has long been the primary safety net for the elderly, a new study from...

The machines that scientists use to probe the minds of animals were almost never built for animals at all. Touchscreens,...

In a discovery that rewrites part of the molecular playbook governing how blood vessels build and refine themselves, researchers in...

A 13-year-old girl whose only visible illness was confined to her brain—a mysterious neurological deterioration with none of the fevers,...

Triple-negative breast cancer, the most aggressive and hardest-to-treat form of breast cancer, may have a newly exposed weak point. A...

Skeletal muscle from older adults who train consistently appears to age more slowly at the molecular level, and a new...

A new study published in Nature Cancer describes the development of an Fc-optimized antibody targeting glucocorticoid-induced tumor necrosis factor receptor–related...

When a heart attack strikes, the body responds within minutes with one of the most dramatic cellular mobilizations in human...

The roughly 40 weeks of human gestation represent one of the most physiologically demanding episodes in a person’s life, yet...

Immunologists have long understood that T cells do far more than float passively through the bloodstream waiting to encounter a...

In the layered world of two-dimensional materials, few phenomena have generated as much excitement as the peculiar dance of excitons—bound...

Microplastics have become one of the most pervasive contaminants of the modern era, detected everywhere from the deepest ocean trenches...

In a discovery that reshapes how scientists understand the mechanical resilience of the tissues that line our skin and organs,...

Cryo-electron microscopy has revealed an entirely new amyloid-β filament fold in the brains of individuals carrying one of the rarest...