Phenylketonuria, or PKU, has long been understood as a disorder of a single missing enzymatic step. But a new study...

A brief change in diet and exercise may help untangle the inflammatory damage associated with long-term high-fat eating, according to...

Sugar beet pulp, the fibrous residue left behind after sugar is extracted from beets, could become the raw material for...

A new generation of CRISPR genome-editing enzymes could make it possible to rewrite DNA sequences that have remained out of...

Scientists have developed a hydroponic platform that makes it possible to watch and measure a part of grass biology that...

Esophageal cancer surgery has entered an era of smaller incisions, robotic instruments and faster recovery—but a long-standing question has remained...

A simple spray of vitamin C may help rose growers harvest more flowers and produce a richer, chemically more complex...

A new modeling study suggests that the biggest source of variation in how patients respond to medicines may not be...

A Parkinson’s Test That Can Detect Misfolded Proteins Is Entering Its Standardization Era A laboratory test capable of detecting tiny...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, have long been described as “forever chemicals” because the carbon–fluorine bonds that define many...

A single 1-milligram starter dose of the cancer immunotherapy tarlatamab was followed by a fatal case of tumour lysis syndrome...

Soybean Flavonoids Push Antibiotic-Factory Bacteria Into a Wall-Less State A pair of compounds found abundantly in soybeans can coax one...

A $500 Open-Source Sensor Could Give Urban Railways a Low-Power Way to Count Wheels Urban rail operators may soon have...

Concrete That Heals Twice: Nested Capsules Could Give Cracked Infrastructure a Second Chance Concrete may be the backbone of modern...

Ethiopia’s Giant Open Dump Has a Hidden Risk Map—and Water Pollution Tops It Every day, roughly 3,000 tonnes of municipal...

Controlled-environment agriculture may be entering a new phase in which greenhouses do more than measure their surroundings: they continuously interpret...

Liquid–liquid phase separation, the process by which molecules spontaneously condense into concentrated droplets without a surrounding membrane, has become one...

A proposed plasmonic memory cell could give optical neural networks a remarkably compact way to store and adjust information, combining...

A newly engineered photocatalyst has achieved complete laboratory removal of dithizone from contaminated water in just 21 minutes, dramatically outpacing...

A new computer-vision technique could make hidden vibrations and subtle shape changes visible in objects whose boundaries are too complex...