Metabolomics, the large-scale study of small molecules in biological systems, has long faced a stubborn interpretability problem. Researchers can measure...

A tiny fleet of machines that can be steered through the bloodstream by nothing more than a magnetic field is...

Cadmium is one of the most stubborn contaminants in agricultural soils, and for growers of Houttuynia cordata, a medicinal herb...

Multiple myeloma, an incurable cancer of the bone marrow’s plasma cells, has long defied doctors’ attempts to predict its course....

Children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder face a markedly elevated risk of three little-known feeding and eating disorders —...

Aging hearts fail quietly. Over decades, the muscle cells that keep blood moving lose their ability to generate energy, accumulate...

Concrete is famously strong in compression and famously terrible in tension. For decades, engineers have compensated by drowning brittle cement...

For years, agricultural scientists have promoted crop diversification as one of the most reliable levers for building soil organic carbon,...

Glioblastoma, the most aggressive cancer that begins in the brain, has stubbornly resisted decades of progress in oncology. Even with...

Mycoplasma pneumoniae has long been recognized as one of the most common bacterial causes of community-acquired pneumonia in children, yet...

Every estimate of how many species humanity will lose to deforestation, urbanization, and agricultural expansion rests on a quiet mathematical...

When large language models are asked to make moral decisions, does putting many of them in a room make the...

Licorice root has been chewed, brewed, and prescribed for thousands of years, from the pharmacies of Traditional Chinese Medicine to...

Immunotherapy has transformed the treatment landscape for non-small cell lung cancer, the most common form of lung malignancy worldwide, yet...

One of the largest studies ever conducted on maternal sleep and child brain development has found that women diagnosed with...

Hydrogen has become the centerpiece of the global search for clean energy, yet most of the hydrogen produced today still...

A team at the National Cancer Institute has unveiled a computational framework that turns ordinary bulk tumor RNA-sequencing data into...

As cities run out of room at the surface, engineers are digging ever deeper, carving out metro stations, basements and...

Deep in the montane forests of East Java, Indonesia, a critically endangered climbing plant is quietly revealing the rules it...

For a child undergoing cancer treatment, the hospital ward can be an isolating world of needles, scans, and long stretches...