In the flooded paddy fields of Kozhikode district in Kerala, India, a quiet experiment has delivered a result that could...

Breast cancer treatment is undergoing one of the most consequential transformations in modern oncology, and a sweeping commentary published in...

A high-protein diet, long celebrated by athletes and weight-loss enthusiasts as a near-universal ticket to better health, may carry a...

When the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic swept through Switzerland in the spring of 2020, most of the world’s...

Hirschsprung disease, a congenital gut disorder that leaves infants unable to pass stool properly, has long been understood as a...

Hidden beneath every productive pasture lies a bustling underground economy, and a new field experiment suggests farmers can tip the...

Interventional radiologists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have reported a technique that could change how doctors treat large...

When a pregnant woman lies awake at 3 a.m., the question of whether her sleeplessness matters for her baby’s developing...

In a field where scientists spend enormous effort shielding delicate quantum systems from the slightest disturbance, one physicist is asking...

The large yellow croaker (Larimichthys crocea) is one of China’s most commercially valuable marine fish, a species whose golden-hued flesh...

Every year, the world’s seafood industry discards mountains of heads, skins, bones, shells, viscera, and trimmings—material that scientists have long...

Marigolds are among the world’s most forgiving ornamental plants, thriving in poor soils, blooming quickly and yielding essential oils prized...

For patients in the middle of cancer treatment, conversations about end-of-life care are among the hardest in medicine. Advance directives,...

A long-term “Food is Medicine” program run through a community health center in Revere, Massachusetts, has been associated with meaningful,...

Bacteria already perform some of the most remarkable chemistry on Earth, from digesting pollutants to producing vitamins in the human...

Medical imaging has long faced a stubborn trade-off: the filters and algorithms that clean noise out of a computed tomography...

For decades, measuring how efficiently a crop photosynthesizes has meant clamping leaves into portable gas-exchange devices one at a time,...

For millions of people living with chronic dry mouth, the simple acts of speaking, swallowing and eating a meal can...

Heart attacks leave scars, and those scars are built by cardiac fibroblasts, the connective-tissue cells that swarm into damaged heart...

Peanut butter is one of the world’s most beloved spreads, but it carries a hidden weakness: its abundance of unsaturated...