Carbon capture has long been a story of compromise. Materials that soak up large quantities of carbon dioxide tend to...

China has planted more trees than any other nation on Earth, a greening campaign visible from orbit and celebrated as...

Few fields in medicine test a clinician’s resolve like brain cancer. Tumors of the central nervous system are biologically heterogeneous,...

One of the most widely prescribed asthma medications for children may carry heavier mental health risks than many clinicians have...

Freshwater scarcity has pushed membrane technology to the center of modern water treatment, and one of the field’s stubbornest problems...

Marine microalgae have long been touted as one of the most promising biological platforms for capturing carbon dioxide and converting...

Bone has a remarkable capacity to heal, but large defects—those caused by trauma, tumor removal, or severe infection—often exceed that...

Agriculture drinks roughly seventy percent of the world’s freshwater, and every drop counts. As water scarcity tightens its grip on...

A rare and formidable cancer has become the center of an unusually pointed scientific dispute. Retroperitoneal sarcoma, a tumor that...

Every year, as winter settles over Brazil, emergency rooms and neurosurgical wards quietly brace for a subtle but measurable surge....

A team of researchers spanning institutions in Nigeria, the United States, South Africa, and India argues that flavonoids, the polyphenolic...

A single fatty acid, attached to and removed from one cysteine residue on a viral protein, may determine whether a...

In a striking reversal of one of ultrafast laser science’s most popular tricks, researchers have shown that a burst of...

Salt is quietly strangling agriculture across the world’s drylands, and few crops feel the squeeze more than sorghum, a cereal...

Sexual health is one of the most frequently neglected dimensions of cancer care, and a new study from Malaysia suggests...

In one of the most ambitious longitudinal investigations of its kind, researchers have traced the entangled trajectories of social isolation...

Xihu Longjing, the legendary green tea harvested around Hangzhou’s West Lake, can command prices that rival fine wine, and that...

Why do we remember some things better in the morning and others at night? A new study in mice suggests...

Few-shot semantic segmentation has long been one of the most stubborn problems in computer vision: how can a machine learn...

Jackfruit is having a moment. The world’s largest tree-borne fruit is being promoted as a meat alternative, a fresh-cut snack,...