For more than a century, the South African butterfly lilies of the genus Wachendorfia have challenged botanists with a striking...

Artificial intelligence is transforming nearly every corner of modern life, but behind every generated image, internet search, recommendation and scientific...

A new clinical trial is opening a potentially important chapter in the treatment of primary plasma cell leukemia, a rare...

Alcohols are among chemistry’s most versatile raw materials, appearing in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, fragrances, polymers and countless industrial intermediates. Yet transforming...

Cigarette smoking remains one of the most persistent and preventable causes of disease worldwide, exposing people to a complex mixture...

Co-transcriptional splicing, once viewed primarily as a routine step in messenger RNA production, is emerging as a central regulator of...

A new study published in Nature Communications is challenging one of psychiatry’s most persistent assumptions: that major mental disorders can...

A new study is putting two of the most influential tools for assessing newborn behavior side by side, asking whether...

A process long associated with genomic instability may have a carefully controlled role in human development, according to a study...

Freshwater production from oily seawater has long presented a difficult engineering problem: the same membranes designed to purify water can...

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers have reported a series of findings that could reshape treatment strategies across oncology, from...

A few atomic layers of ruthenium dioxide may be revealing a hidden form of magnetism that disappears in the material’s...

Nicotine patches are often viewed as the quietest tool in the fight against smoking: a small adhesive strip placed on...

Road traffic may be pushing Britain’s smallest hedgehog populations toward collapse, according to a new study showing that even one...

A drug already used to calm overactive immune signaling may offer a way to prevent one of the most devastating...

A new study in Pediatric Research is drawing attention to an overlooked possibility in the debate over vaping: the health...

Researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo and Stanford University have identified a previously unrecognized immune mechanism that rapidly eliminates...

Oral squamous cell carcinoma, the most common form of head and neck cancer, is confronting researchers with a problem that...

When two atomic nuclei collide at nearly the speed of light, they create one of the hottest and most energetic...

Cigarette smoking remains one of the leading preventable causes of death in the United States, killing nearly half a million...