Corrosion is one of the most expensive and stubborn problems in modern industry, quietly devouring pipelines, storage tanks, cooling systems,...

Pulmonary fibrosis is one of the most relentless diseases in medicine, a condition in which the delicate air sacs of...

Ankle sprains are among the most common musculoskeletal injuries on the planet, and for a stubborn minority of patients they...

Phosphates are the unsung workhorses of the processed meat industry. In sausages, hams, bacon, and restructured meat products, these multifunctional...

One of the most frustrating realities in liver cancer treatment is that even after a seemingly successful surgical resection, hepatocellular...

Atherosclerosis has long been treated as a disease of cholesterol, but cardiologists increasingly recognize it as a disease of the...

The Internet of Mobile Things has quietly become one of the most demanding environments in modern networking. Billions of small,...

Immune checkpoint inhibitors have transformed modern oncology, unleashing the immune system against tumors that once seemed untouchable. But the same...

Spinal anesthesia is one of the most dependable tools in modern operating rooms. A single injection of local anesthetic into...

For years, scientists have grown ball-like structures from human stem cells that mimic some of the earliest stages of embryonic...

Every seed carries a decision inside it: germinate now, or wait. For farmers and plant scientists alike, that decision is...

When does the body start telling the truth about the brain? For decades, researchers have known that the way we...

Soft tissue defects caused by trauma, tumor removal, or congenital conditions remain one of the most stubborn challenges in reconstructive...

Automated machine learning has long promised to hand the power of deep learning to scientists who never trained as programmers,...

Few ideas in modern biology have captured the public imagination quite like epigenetics. The promise is seductive: chemical marks on...

A self-driving field robot fitted with three depth cameras has been shown to build dense, millimetre-scale 3D maps of maize...

A trace element found in Brazil nuts, seafood, and whole grains may hold the key to protecting one of the...

Few drug classes in modern cardiology have generated as much astonishment as the sodium–glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors, the diabetes pills...

A routine blood test that costs pennies to perform may help doctors predict how aggressively vulvar cancer will behave before...

Macrophages, the scavenger cells of the immune system, have long been recognized as double agents inside tumours. Depending on the...