Artificial joints have transformed millions of lives, but they carry a persistent and dangerous vulnerability: bacteria love them. Periprosthetic joint...

A humble ingredient that has flavoured Chinese kitchens and herbal pharmacies for centuries is now attracting serious attention from food...

Lung cancer kills more people worldwide than any other malignancy, and the reason is painfully simple: it is usually caught...

Within hours of a catastrophic injury, the human body launches one of the most dramatic physiological upheavals in medicine. Blood...

Nitrile rubber is one of the most quietly essential materials in modern engineering. It seals fuel systems, cushions vibrating machinery,...

Plant scientists have unveiled a deceptively simple trick that could reshape how the world breeds disease-resistant crops: they have taken...

A coaxial-rotor aircraft, or CRA, is a deceptively simple machine: two rotors spinning in opposite directions on a single mast,...

In the misty hills of Darjeeling, where the world’s most prized tea grows in acidic soils, a team of researchers...

Few molecules in immunology have traveled as remarkable a path from basic discovery to cancer biology as myeloid differentiation factor...

A psychometric study conducted in western Iran has delivered a rigorously validated Persian-language instrument for measuring how a society perceives...

Sachet water, the small plastic packets of drinking water sold by street vendors across Nigeria and often called “pure water,”...

A routine blood draw may one day help catch one of the world’s most common kidney cancers before it spreads,...

In the crowded interior of a bacterial cell, location can be everything. A new study of the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas...

For centuries, farmers have known that what they plant this season shapes what they harvest the next. Rotating crops has...

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma remains one of the most lethal malignancies in modern medicine, with five-year survival rates that have barely...

Every year, millions of patients wake from surgery to find their minds temporarily unraveled. Postoperative delirium, a sudden and fluctuating...

Epoxy resins are everywhere, quietly holding together the modern world. They bond the wings of aircraft, coat the hulls of...

Scientists in China have shown that deleting a single glycolytic enzyme in an industrially important marine microorganism can dramatically change...

For years, the relationship between human drivers and semi-autonomous vehicle systems has been defined by a frustrating one-way conversation. The...

Beneath the scattered forest patches of Punjab and Chandigarh lies a hidden architecture of nutrients that scientists have now mapped...