Water treatment is entering an era in which removing pollutants is no longer enough. The next generation of purification technologies...

Blindness and moderate-to-severe visual impairment affect an estimated 340 million people worldwide, transforming an ordinary walk through a neighborhood into...

A familiar cell-cycle protein may be helping aging cells broadcast inflammatory signals throughout the body, according to a new study...

Acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, is often described as a single disease, but that label conceals a sprawling collection of...

A heart transplant can restore circulation, reverse advanced heart failure and give patients years of life, but the new organ...

A new study has revealed that the epigenetic regulator PRC2 performs different, stage-specific jobs during the earliest phases of mammalian...

Tropical forests may be able to return naturally across millions of square kilometres of degraded land, offering a powerful but...

Alzheimer’s disease has long been described through the lens of neurons: the loss of synapses, the accumulation of amyloid-β plaques,...

A new multinational study has found that sustained extreme heat is associated with a measurable rise in hospitalizations for mental...

Regulatory T cells, commonly known as Treg cells, are the immune system’s essential peacekeepers. They suppress excessive immune reactions, limit...

A new study reports a way to control the spin and motion of topological defects in a polariton condensate by...

Spatial biology has promised a more complete view of how cells behave inside tissues, but that promise has often come...

Living systems can perform astonishingly coordinated tasks without a central controller. A flock of birds can turn as one, a...

A new DNA-based nanoscale device could give scientists an unprecedented way to control how engineered objects cross cell membranes. In...

Cold atoms have long been among the most precise tools in modern physics, enabling clocks that measure time to extraordinary...

Spectrometers have traditionally treated light as a two-stage problem. First, an optical system encodes the incoming light by separating or...

The nucleus is often portrayed as a fortress, sealed off from the rest of the cell by a protective membrane....

Insulin receptor prediction has entered a new computational phase with the proposed DC-BiGAN-IR framework, a deep-learning system designed to identify...

Twenty years after scientists first demonstrated that a mature cell could be pushed backward into a stem-cell-like state, induced pluripotent...

Guillain–Barré syndrome, or GBS, is one of the most urgent neurological disorders in which the body’s immune system attacks the...