For millions of people with kidney failure, the nights are the hardest part. An irresistible urge to move the legs...

Preterm birth, the delivery of a baby before thirty-seven weeks of gestation, remains one of the most stubborn puzzles in...

Sepsis remains one of the most feared conditions in modern medicine, a runaway response to infection that can shut down...

Perovskite solar cells have spent more than a decade dazzling the photovoltaics community. Their crystal lattices can be tuned to...

Surgery for colorectal cancer in patients aged 90 and older has long been viewed with caution, if not outright skepticism....

Lithium-ion batteries have long been locked into a costly dependency on cobalt, a metal whose supply chains are fraught with...

For decades, dermatologists have struggled with a deceptively simple question: when a yellowish bump appears on a patient’s skin, is...

In a quiet lagoon south of Chennai, a humble red seaweed has delivered a result that could reshape coastal aquaculture...

One of the most persistent questions in neonatal medicine has just been sharpened by a new analysis of data from...

Somalia’s health system stands at one of the most precarious junctures in global public health, and a new analysis published...

A three-year surveillance program in Quzhou City, in western Zhejiang Province, China, has found that poultry-associated environments—particularly live poultry markets...

Video has never been easier to fake. Consumer editing suites can duplicate a frame, splice in footage from another clip,...

For patients with liver tumors, one of the most technically impressive weapons in the interventional radiology arsenal has long carried...

Immune checkpoint inhibitors have rewritten the rules of modern cancer care, unleashing the body’s own defenses against tumors that once...

Every time a microbiologist sequences a new bacterium or archaeon, the raw string of A, C, G and T letters...

Every year, the world’s coal mines wash and process billions of tons of coal, and in doing so they generate...

Perennial grain crops have long been promoted as a way to reconcile agriculture with soil health, but the genetics of...

Every night after a twelve-hour shift, millions of nurses around the world do what much of the rest of the...

Every winter, the Syrian hamster performs one of biology’s most remarkable feats: it switches its body into a state of...

Solid tumors are notoriously difficult for immunotherapies to penetrate, and one of the chief culprits is not the cancer cell...