Hepatic insulin resistance, a metabolic defect that can emerge years before type 2 diabetes, has been linked to a previously...

A new study in Nature is challenging a conclusion that has become increasingly common across science and technology: that disruptive...

Superstorm Sandy did not end when the winds fell quiet. In New York City, floodwaters, damaged buildings, prolonged dampness and...

Parkinson’s disease treatment is entering an era in which the brain may no longer be viewed as a static target,...

Rice University researchers have shown that wrinkles only a few atoms wide can transform graphene from a nearly flat sheet...

Louisiana Program Receives More Than $3 Million to Expand Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening A statewide cancer prevention program in...

An international team of astronomers has uncovered a previously hidden chapter in the life cycle of stars by observing fragments...

A new MRI-based system could change how experimental stroke treatments are evaluated, allowing researchers to compare brain injury across thousands...

Wildfires moving at extreme speed may be doing more than expanding the burned area across western North America: they may...

A photograph uploaded to iNaturalist may look like an ordinary snapshot of a strange-looking arachnid, but thousands of such images...

A new study suggests that the brain may not choose between goals in continuous, real-world behaviour as if it were...

RNA medicines are moving rapidly from experimental therapies toward practical treatments, but one of the field’s biggest obstacles remains the...

A debate over whether modern science and technology are becoming less disruptive has entered a new phase, with researchers arguing...

A small correction to a paper in Nature Aging has drawn renewed attention to a major question in biology: how...

Cholangiocarcinoma, a cancer arising in the bile ducts, has become an unexpected test of whether precision oncology can deliver on...

Synucleinopathies, a group of progressive neurological disorders that includes Parkinson’s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and multiple system atrophy, may...

Cascade gate-pumping systems rarely attract public attention, yet they quietly perform one of the most energy-intensive jobs in modern water...

A new robotic grasping system has demonstrated a striking ability to move between radically different robot hands without being retrained...

Chemical reactions are decided at a fleeting point that molecules occupy only for an instant: the transition state. It is...

Multiple myeloma has long challenged researchers with a deceptively simple problem: the disease may be diagnosed in one patient, yet...