A little-known anatomical feature surrounding the brain is moving into the spotlight as researchers investigate how it can be studied...

Artificial intelligence is giving children stories filled with talking animals, magical journeys and personalized illustrations—but a new University of Washington...

A new biobank of three-dimensional human tumour models is giving researchers an unprecedented view of the genes that cancers depend...

A new cobalt-based electrode that can split water for hydrogen production while surviving hundreds of hours of demanding operation could...

Spinal cord injuries affect an estimated 15–20 million people worldwide, frequently causing permanent loss of movement, sensation, and independence. Damage...

Scientists have engineered tobacco and lettuce plants to produce myoglobin—the iron-rich protein responsible for much of meat’s red color and...

Electrical stimulation of the human brain can reorganize neural activity in ways that are closely tied to gene regulation, according...

A quantum signal has completed a difficult journey through 62 kilometers of aerial fiber in the Maryland suburbs, surviving the...

Medical progress is transforming not only how long people live, but also the diseases they live with. A new population-based...

Metastable materials often vanish from the laboratory bench before researchers can study them. They form only briefly, quickly transforming into...

A child’s broken bone can heal in an unexpected way. Instead of restoring the delicate architecture of the growth plate,...

Living alongside pumas may seem like a dangerous bargain, but new research suggests that the presence of these large predators...

A healing colon does not simply switch genes on and off. Its cells appear to follow a complex daily timetable,...

The cerebral cortex may not be built according to the simple developmental script scientists have relied on for decades. A...

Glioblastoma, the most aggressive primary brain cancer, remains notoriously difficult to control. Its cells do not stay neatly confined within...

Resonant optical systems can behave like exquisitely sensitive instruments, but extracting the physical information hidden in their spectral signals has...

Food allergy researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital have reported early evidence that changing the gut microbiome may increase tolerance to...

Dinosaurs are remembered as Earth’s giants: towering sauropods that outweighed dozens of elephants, and predators such as Tyrannosaurus rex that...

Hydrogels are among the most promising materials in modern biomedicine. They are soft, water-rich networks that can resemble the physical...

Vanderbilt Health researchers are developing an artificial intelligence system that could help patients with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease reach newly approved...