Machine learning models are often drowning in data, but the problem is not always the sheer volume of samples. Increasingly,...

Deep in the peat of a calcareous fen in Ontario, Canada, methane is quietly accumulating in bubbles trapped beneath the...

Endometriosis is one of the most common and least satisfactorily treated chronic diseases affecting women, defined by the growth of...

Turning sunlight into clean fuel and using the same trick to destroy toxic pollutants has long been one of chemistry’s...

More than four decades ago, in the summer of 1982, a team of researchers chased bottlenose dolphins through the shallow,...

Motion capture has long been the privilege of well-funded laboratories. The gold standard, optoelectronic systems that track reflective markers glued...

Salt is quietly strangling some of the world’s most productive farmland, and few crops feel the squeeze more than the...

Every time you slip your smartphone into a pocket or bag, a tiny cluster of motion sensors silently records the...

Plant-based yogurt has a structural problem. Strip away cow’s milk and you also strip away casein, the dairy protein that...

Deep inside the chemical tags that decorate our DNA lies a ticking record of how fast we are truly aging....

Does the march of artificial intelligence make people happier, or does it simply make economies more productive while leaving citizens...

Bitter gourd has long occupied a paradoxical place on the dinner plate: famously unpleasant to some palates, yet prized across...

When breast cancer spreads to the liver, the prognosis is grim. Median survival for patients with breast cancer liver metastases...

Spotted fever, a bacterial infection transmitted to humans through the bites of infected ticks and mites, has long been a...

Battery researchers around the world publish thousands of papers each year claiming improvements in capacity, cycling stability and energy density,...

More than six decades after the Italian economist Piero Sraffa published his landmark work on the production of commodities by...

When a pressurized vessel suddenly vents its contents, the escaping gas can reach supersonic speeds, cool dramatically, and impose severe...

In the smallholder fields of southern Ethiopia, where the average maize plot covers less than a hectare and is often...

A simple tube of blood may soon tell oncologists far more about a patient’s cancer than they ever imagined possible....

Every newborn arrives carrying a molecular snapshot of the maternal immune system. Antibodies cross the placenta in late pregnancy, providing...