Lignin, the complex polymer that gives wood its strength, has long been viewed as one of the most promising yet...

Microplastics are no longer confined to distant oceans or polluted shorelines. They have been detected in drinking water, food, air...

The world’s fastest-growing class of weight-loss medicines has reached a critical crossroads: millions of women of reproductive age are now...

A correction published in Light: Science & Applications has brought renewed attention to an unusual approach to solar-energy research: harvesting...

Stroke recovery may depend on more than the visible damage recorded on a brain scan. A new study in BMC...

Methane is one of the most abundant carbon-containing molecules on Earth, yet converting it into useful chemicals remains a formidable...

A Houston Methodist-led study has identified a biological signaling pathway that may help explain why some metastatic breast cancers resist...

Researchers have remotely observed the effects of anomalous tunneling in a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC), marking the first peer-reviewed scientific result...

UC San Diego Health has been named California’s leading hospital system and one of the top 20 health care systems...

Smithsonian researchers have reconstructed the most comprehensive evolutionary map yet of Hawaii’s honeycreepers, a spectacular group of birds whose rapid...

A surprising discovery in Parkinson’s disease research is challenging one of the field’s most familiar assumptions: that restoring movement necessarily...

A new review in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology is bringing the hidden architecture of chromosome inheritance into sharper focus,...

Modern photonic chips are already capable of performing remarkable optical tasks on surfaces smaller than a fingernail, but a new...

Researchers at Fuzhou University have developed a gelatin-stabilized liquid-metal hydrogel that combines stretchable electronics, artificial intelligence and solar-energy conversion in...

A three-drug combination that exploits a metabolic weakness shared by cancer cells and senescent cells has extended post-treatment survival and...

Senate appropriators have reached a bipartisan agreement on a short-term government funding measure that would delay implementation of a proposed...

Moving an outdoor cat indoors may be far less disruptive than many owners fear, according to a new study from...

Parkinson’s disease has long been described as a disorder of dopamine-producing neurons, but a growing body of genetic research is...

Plantar pressure mapping, a technology used to reveal how forces move across the underside of the foot, could soon become...

A century after analytical ultracentrifugation helped earn Theodor Svedberg the 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the technique is finding new...