Primates are, by almost any measure you care to choose, an extraordinary group of mammals. From the mouse lemurs of...

Perovskite nanocrystals have dazzled materials scientists for a decade with their almost absurd optical credentials: they absorb light voraciously, emit...

Water is becoming the most contested resource in modern farming, and a new study suggests that technology already sitting on...

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Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) was once among the most feared diagnoses in hematology, with patients routinely dying within days of...

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Highland barley, a hulless cereal cultivated for centuries on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, has long been prized as a staple food...

Every year, roughly a third of all food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted, a figure that carries...

For more than a decade, the dominant metaphor for working with artificial intelligence has been the human-in-the-loop: a person standing...

Cultured meat has long promised a future in which real animal protein is grown in bioreactors rather than raised in...

One of the most stubborn problems in modern cancer medicine is that tumors are not static targets. When clinicians hit...

Cadmium, a heavy metal with no known biological function, has long been suspected of undermining male fertility, but the sheer...

Every molecular biologist knows the ritual. A plate of cloned sequences comes back from the Sanger sequencing facility, and what...

Prediabetes has long been framed as a warning light on the dashboard of metabolic health — a state of elevated...

As the semiconductor industry pushes power densities to levels that would have seemed fantastical a decade ago, heat has quietly...

Surgeons have long struggled with one of the most stubborn problems in abdominal surgery: how to rebuild a weakened abdominal...