Two of the world’s most familiar agricultural products, mandarin oranges and coffee, may soon have a new role beyond the...

More than half of patients on maintenance haemodialysis may be living with sarcopenia, and nearly one in three shows the...

Scientists in South Korea have found a way to take ordinary oak wood and strip away nearly all of its...

A single molecule that switches on one of the body’s most ancient energy sensors has now been shown to lengthen...

Silicon has been the workhorse of the electronics industry for more than half a century, yet the invisible landscape of...

When water becomes scarce, plants face a brutal energy crisis. Their stomata close to conserve moisture, cutting off carbon dioxide...

Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, one of the most common and lethal malignancies worldwide, has long resisted the kind...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and atherosclerosis are two of the biggest killers in modern medicine, and they rarely travel alone....

A drop of water landing on a lotus leaf does not spread. It beads up, gleams like mercury, and rolls...

Deep in the salt-soaked mangrove forests of Chorao Island in Goa, India, scientists have unearthed a microscopic ally in the...

When a sentence says that one event made another happen, most human readers grasp the connection instantly. For machines, however,...

Across the vast drylands of northern China, vegetation has long walked a delicate tightrope between surviving drought and bouncing back...

Immune checkpoint blockade has transformed the treatment landscape for non-small cell lung cancer, yet a stubborn majority of patients still...

For parents of children with epilepsy, the night is the most dangerous time. Tonic–clonic seizures carry a risk of severe...

A banned pesticide that was outlawed decades ago is still turning up in the rice, corn, wheat, and beans that...

Mosquitoes are among the most intensively studied insects on Earth, yet the vast majority of genomic attention has focused on...

Quantum computers promise speedups across a sweeping range of problems, from factoring large integers to simulating molecules, but some of...

Vegetable crops sit at the heart of global food security, supplying essential vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and dietary fiber to billions...

Thyroid nodules are among the most common findings in clinical medicine, and the way doctors image them is about to...

Endometriosis is one of the most common and most stubbornly difficult chronic diseases affecting women, striking roughly ten percent of...