A new review of the statistical tools used to combine health data from different studies has exposed a problem hiding...

Tick-borne encephalitis is often described as an acute infection: a sudden illness marked by fever, headache, neurological inflammation and, in...

A “Nearly Perfect” Breast Screening System Still Leaves Some Women Waiting Longer for Answers A nationwide study of Denmark’s breast...

A new study has revealed that immune checkpoint blockade can drive the first wave of tumor rejection even when a...

Hall-effect current sensors may be among the smallest components in modern power systems, but their performance can determine how safely...

A New Hydrogel Mimics Cartilage’s Strength and Near-Slippery Lubrication Artificial cartilage has long faced a problem that sounds simple but...

A new artificial-intelligence architecture designed to handle the jagged, unruly mathematics of real-world systems has outperformed both conventional neural networks...

Australians are broadly familiar with the idea of cars that drive themselves, but a national survey suggests that public support...

Generative artificial intelligence has produced everything from photorealistic faces to synthetic medical scans, but the systems behind those images remain...

Streaming data are everywhere, from financial transactions and online searches to sensor networks, social-media feeds and industrial monitoring systems. Yet...

A Quantum Error-Correction Upgrade Could Extend One-Way Quantum Repeaters Across 5,000 Kilometres Quantum communication has a stubborn distance problem: photons...

A Machine-Learning Signal in Celiac Disease Turns Out to Be Written in the HLA Genes A person’s immune system carries...

A new molecular screening strategy could help doctors distinguish human papillomavirus infections that are likely to disappear from those that...

A new bacterial “alarm system” could make it dramatically easier to discover antibiotics that attack one of microbes’ most vulnerable...

A forest can look orderly from a distance while functioning as a complex three-dimensional network beneath the canopy. Now, a...

A Wild Soybean Cross Has Produced Plants That Seem to Rewrite Their Own Genetic Rules A soybean breeding experiment has...

A new study using whole-body metabolic imaging has linked unusually active visceral fat—the energy-storing tissue packed around abdominal organs—with disrupted...

A Routine Inflammation Test May Reveal Hidden Long-Term Risk in Heart Failure A standard blood test could help doctors identify...

Parkinson’s Disease Shows a Molecular Diversity That Could Explain Its Uneven Course Parkinson’s disease is often described as a single...

A Cholesterol-Regulating Gene May Shield Injured Hearts From a Dangerous Form of Cell Death A gene best known for controlling...