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In the world of aquaculture, appearance and performance rarely travel together. A rare, pale-colored fish might be expected to be...

When a museum visitor kneels before a machine that dispenses randomly generated aphorisms, the boundary between art, oracle and algorithm...

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A new study of 450 colorectal cancer patients has delivered some of the clearest evidence yet that mutations in two...

When a 35-year-old man arrived at his hospital in Hebron, Palestine, with fever, abdominal pain, crushing fatigue, loss of appetite,...

In the coconut oil mills of Kerala, India, a byproduct that has long been treated as a nuisance is quietly...

For centuries, the sour, funky beers known as lambics have been considered inseparable from the Senne river valley near Brussels,...

Hydrogen is an invisible saboteur inside nuclear reactors. It seeps into the zirconium alloy tubes that sheath nuclear fuel, precipitates...

Drone surveys have transformed the way scientists watch soil disappear. With a few hundred overlapping photographs and a technique called...

One of the most celebrated targets in modern oncology may be far more slippery than clinicians have assumed. A new...

As cannabis legalization sweeps across the United States and Europe, surgeons are confronting an uncomfortable question: what does routine marijuana...

Corrosion quietly drains between three and four percent of global gross domestic product every year, chewing through pipelines, ship hulls,...

When humans first domesticated maize from its wild ancestor teosinte roughly nine thousand years ago, they were selecting for bigger...

Biomedical science has quietly crossed a threshold that few researchers anticipated even a decade ago. The bottleneck in discovery is...

The unmistakable refreshing snap of a freshly cut cucumber is not an accident of nature but the product of a...

Injecting drugs directly into tumors sounds deceptively simple: place a needle inside the cancer, push in the therapeutic, and let...

For millions of older adults living with type 2 diabetes, a good night’s sleep can feel like an elusive luxury....

Chemists have long chased a simple goal: build medicinally valuable molecules quickly, cheaply, and without poisoning the planet in the...

The African savanna elephant, the largest land animal on Earth and an ecological architect of the continent’s grasslands, is facing...