A team of robotics researchers has unveiled a fully open-source, 3D-printable soft robotic gripper that borrows its mechanics from the...

Artificial intelligence is often celebrated for its ability to predict things: yields, droughts, outbreaks, prices. But a sweeping new systematic...

Atherosclerosis, the slow silent narrowing of the arteries that underlies most heart attacks and strokes, has long been understood as...

A new theoretical study published in the open-access journal Results in Physics offers a unified mathematical framework for predicting not...

Ketoprofen, one of the most widely prescribed nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in the world, has long been regarded as a reliable...

Microplastics have long been framed as one of the defining pollution problems of the modern era, a ubiquitous haze of...

People living with inflammatory bowel disease have long been known to face an elevated risk of colorectal cancer, but a...

A landmark effort to bring Indigenous healing practices into the formal health care system is about to face its most...

In a discovery that could reshape one of the most vigorous debates in modern condensed matter physics, researchers at the...

In a bold bid to ignite the immune system against cancers that have learned to hide, researchers at Case Western...

Radiologists may soon be able to tell whether a tiny, hazy spot on a lung CT scan is a harmless...

A rare and elusive subtype of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is coming into sharper focus thanks to a new study...

In a development that could reshape the landscape of infrared sensing technology, a team of researchers has demonstrated a new...

When the ground shakes, the river rises, or wildfire smoke darkens the sky, the difference between hardship and catastrophe often...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden chapter in the life of the cilium, the tiny antenna-like projection that cells use to...

The bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae has long occupied an awkward position in pediatric medicine: too small and too structurally unusual to...

In the quiet interior of a soybean root nodule, a bacterium has been quietly assembling a chemical arsenal against one...

Deep brain stimulation has transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people living with Parkinson’s disease, but a quiet...

Every week, it seems, a new stretching challenge goes viral, promising that a few minutes of daily static stretching will...

Every breath we take may carry traces of plastic, and yet scientists have struggled for years to reproduce that exposure...