Dopamine has long been cast as the brain’s “motivation molecule,” a chemical messenger that helps shape reward, learning, movement and...

A new study published in Nature Communications reports that sepsis-associated acute kidney injury, one of the most dangerous complications of...

Glioblastoma’s Next Target: Why Precision Drugs Are Still Struggling to Defeat the Brain’s Most Aggressive Cancer Glioblastoma remains the most...

Parkinson’s disease may be entering a new era of prediction, in which the earliest clues to a patient’s future are...

A common bladder infection may be prompting a much bigger medical question than doctors once assumed. A nationwide population-based study...

Light could soon become more than a carrier of data. In a new study published in Light: Science & Applications,...

The liver has long been viewed as a broadly similar organ in men and women, with differences often attributed mainly...

A single atom can determine whether a heterocycle is easy to build, difficult to modify, or inaccessible through conventional synthetic...

Lithium-ion batteries have transformed everything from smartphones to electric vehicles, yet the thin separator hidden inside each cell remains one...

Messenger RNA transformed vaccine science during the COVID-19 pandemic, but its success depended on a delivery system capable of protecting...

For decades, superconductivity has been treated as a property controlled primarily by temperature, magnetic fields, chemical composition and pressure. A...

A new generation of optical filters could make advanced communications systems faster, more adaptable and far less dependent on fixed...

Acute kidney injury can damage far more than the kidneys. When renal blood flow is interrupted and then restored, the...

Peptide–protein interactions sit at the center of many biological processes, from cellular signaling and immune regulation to the action of...

The next great leap in artificial intelligence may depend on a technology that does not make processors faster at all....

Microwave technology is entering a new phase in which quantum behavior may no longer be confined to dilution refrigerators and...

Children with rhabdomyosarcoma whose tumours lack the genetic marker traditionally associated with the most dangerous form of the disease may...

Quantum simulators have long promised to reveal how complex quantum matter behaves—systems so difficult to calculate that even the most...

The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) has announced a major change in the scientific leadership of Calcified Tissue International and Musculoskeletal...

A new review in Ferroptosis and Oxidative Stress examines whether one class of compounds could suppress two interconnected forms of...