For decades, physicists have been trying to understand what happens when a material that should conduct electricity instead behaves like...

A transparent object can be physically present yet nearly invisible to an ordinary camera. Glass, plastic films and living cells...

Cancer research is entering an era in which tumors are no longer viewed as isolated masses of abnormal human cells....

LAWRENCE, Kansas — A University of Kansas project aimed at upgrading one of the Large Hadron Collider’s most specialized detection...

A newly published review has identified the transcription factor FOXA2 as one of the central molecular coordinators linking pancreatic development...

The MYH9 gene is emerging as a critical biological switch at the intersection of cancer progression and inherited disease, according...

Sugarcane’s extraordinary genetic complexity has finally yielded one of its oldest biological secrets. A new study has resolved how certain...

Bladder cancer care is entering a molecular era in which the most important question may no longer be only where...

A new study has identified an important spatial principle governing how mitochondria support developing neurons: the machinery that controls mitochondrial...

A global push to limit warming to 1.5 °C could create an unexpected threat to food security: less land available...

Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is among the world’s most challenging cancers, accounting for approximately 90% of malignancies...

Coal pyrolysis may have found a surprisingly simple way to become more selective. Researchers from Chongqing University and Monash University...

A new review in Genes & Diseases examines how circular RNAs, or circRNAs, could help scientists understand and control one...

Water scarcity is becoming one of the most serious threats to global agriculture as climate change intensifies droughts and raises...

Scientists have reconstructed a possible sequence of events linking the chemistry of hydrothermal vents to the emergence of the first...

Multiple sclerosis has long been understood as a disease in which immune cells attack the central nervous system, but the...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have developed an experimental anticancer compound that appears to make treatment-resistant tumors vulnerable again....

Jacksonville, Fla. — Mayo Clinic researchers have used artificial intelligence to identify an experimental small-molecule drug that targets a protein...

A fluffy, seaweed-inspired “net” could offer a new way to remove microplastics from water, capturing particles that range from visible...

Aging does not begin at the same time everywhere. A new analysis of more than 30,000 adults over the age...