A Tiny Texas Fish Reveals How Generalists Outthink Specialists in Unpredictable Habitats When the environment changes without warning, survival may...

A Druggable Cellular Circuit Could Explain Port-Wine Stains—and Point to New Treatments A molecular pathway long associated with immune suppression...

A non-invasive combination of liver stiffness measurements and blood tests could substantially improve the early detection of sinusoidal obstruction syndrome,...

A new study has revealed that resistance to a major class of breast-cancer drugs is not a single, predictable event...

A Hidden Fourth Type of Lung Tumour May Explain Why Some “Low-Grade” Cancers Turn Aggressive A large international study has...

Colorectal cancer is increasingly appearing in people who are too young to have been considered part of the disease’s traditional...

A new study points to an unexpected immune connection that could help explain why blood-cell production changes with age: a...

Glioblastoma has long been regarded as one of the most formidable cancers to treat, not only because its cells infiltrate...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a genetic heart disease that can thicken the cardiac muscle and disrupt its ability to pump efficiently, may...

A widely used antiviral drug could be made through a radically different chemical route—one that turns carbon dioxide and phosphite...

A new study has introduced a molecular reporter designed to show, in real time, how human cells detect DNA damage...

Europe’s most familiar birds and butterflies may continue to disappear from the landscape even if governments achieve major conservation goals,...

A new artificial-intelligence-based approach could make one of genetics’ most difficult problems substantially easier: determining which single-letter changes in DNA...

Medical artificial intelligence is often presented as a story about algorithms: larger datasets, faster processors and increasingly sophisticated models that...

Cancer immunotherapy has gained a hybrid new contender: a living cell engineered by fusing two immune-system specialists into one tumor-hunting...

The lithium-metal battery has long been regarded as the ultimate prize in rechargeable energy storage: lithium is exceptionally light, and...

Seeing a brain think in real time has long been one of neuroscience’s most ambitious goals. A new study reported...

A new class of implantable bioelectronics could make one of the most frustrating problems in medical-device care visible from outside...

A quantum-optics technique first developed to measure the apparent sizes of stars has been repurposed to reveal how tiny materials...

Nanoplastics may be almost impossible to see, but that does not make them biologically insignificant. Particles smaller than a micrometre...