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...

Fertilization is usually portrayed as a microscopic race: millions of sperm cells competing to reach a single egg, with only...

People with diabetes who develop both heart failure and end-stage kidney disease face one of medicine’s most difficult cardiovascular challenges....

A new award presentation in Pediatric Research frames misinformation as a direct threat to child survival, arguing that scientific knowledge...

Mitochondria are often described as the power stations of the cell, but they are also strategic decision-makers in cellular survival....