Researchers have unveiled a new approach to making soft robots and wearable machines look and move more like living organisms:...

A gut bacterium that shortens the lifespan of honeybees may nevertheless help them survive a potentially lethal infection. Researchers have...

A new study in Drosophila is challenging one of neuroscience’s most familiar ideas: that motor neurons are merely the final...

A new international effort to make surgery safer for newborns and infants is proposing a common language for “enhanced recovery”...

The brain depends on an intricate internal recycling system to keep its exceptionally long-lived cells functioning. A new review in...

For decades, science has relied on a formal ritual to decide which discoveries deserve attention: experts read manuscripts, assess their...

Artificial intelligence systems are often praised for seeing patterns, but many of them remain surprisingly poor at representing detail across...

Lensless cameras may soon become far more capable of recording moving biological samples, thanks to a new computational imaging framework...

A nationwide study in Japan has found that robotic gastrectomy may provide several measurable advantages over conventional laparoscopic surgery for...

Tryptophan, the amino acid best known as a building block for serotonin, may be far more deeply involved in female...

Ankle sprains are often treated as temporary injuries, but for many people the consequences persist long after swelling and pain...

Candida auris, an emerging fungal pathogen responsible for difficult-to-control outbreaks in hospitals worldwide, appears to make a strategic decision before...

A vaccine built from genetically engineered baker’s yeast and decorated with a slow-changing influenza protein has protected mice against three...

A cookie made from plastic bottles, corn stalks and engineered yeast may sound like science fiction, but researchers at Southern...

A yeast-based vaccine candidate targeting a conserved influenza protein has protected mice against multiple influenza A strains, raising the possibility...

Parkinson’s disease is often described through its most recognizable symptoms—tremor, stiffness and slowed movement—but one of its most dangerous complications...

Low- and middle-income countries are carrying the overwhelming share of the world’s cervical cancer deaths, and a new review warns...

For decades, vast stretches of the animal genome were dismissed as genetic “junk”—repetitive DNA sequences that do not encode proteins...

A simple calculation from two routine blood tests is drawing new attention to a question that could affect millions of...

As families across the United States rebuild school-day routines, a familiar morning problem is taking on new significance: how to...