A global study has challenged one of ecology’s most persistent assumptions about invasive plants: that their success is consistently powered...

Colorectal cancer is often described as a disease written into the genome, but the authors of a new study argue...

Smoking and limited access to education appear to be combining into a powerful, preventable driver of premature death in the...

A previously unrecognized population of cancer-associated fibroblasts appears to act as a spatial organizer for immune suppression in lung cancer,...

A new flexible sensor could help machines see, feel and make decisions with a level of coordination that has long...

Metal–organic frameworks, or MOFs, are best known as highly ordered crystalline materials whose molecular building blocks assemble into repeating networks...

Han, Cho, Takahashi and colleagues have reported a potential new way to strengthen cancer immunotherapy from inside the gut: an...

Cryo-electron microscopy has transformed structural biology by allowing scientists to visualize proteins and other biological machines at near-atomic resolution. Yet...

Micro-LEDs have long promised to transform displays for smartphones, televisions, smart glasses and immersive virtual-reality headsets, combining extraordinary brightness with...

A new study has brought physicists closer to watching an exotic state of matter reveal itself through light. In research...

A new study is reshaping the way scientists understand how transcription factors find their targets inside the crowded genome. Researchers...

A new strategy for one of organic chemistry’s most persistent selectivity problems could give chemists a more precise way to...

Generative artificial intelligence may be transforming STEM education—but not in the simple, universally positive way suggested by many early headlines....

Small-sample RNA-sequencing studies often promise a window into the molecular changes that accompany disease, treatment response, or infection. Yet when...

A subtropical tree has revealed how forests may survive a future defined by hotter temperatures, rising atmospheric carbon dioxide and...

Rainfall is doing more than replenishing water in alpine wetlands: it may be steering the microscopic communities that live around...

Hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common primary cancer of the liver, is often discovered at a stage when surgery or transplantation...

A new scoping review published in BMC Public Health is drawing attention to a major shift in how American healthcare...

Long-acting injectable drugs are reshaping the way HIV is treated and prevented, offering an alternative to pills that must be...

Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation may protect people with coronary heart disease from future hospitalisation through several biological and behavioural pathways, according...