Chronic wounds are one of medicine’s quietest crises. Millions of people worldwide live with ulcers that refuse to close, and...

Preeclampsia remains one of the most feared complications of pregnancy, a condition that strikes without warning, endangers two lives at...

Supercapacitors occupy a peculiar middle ground in the world of energy storage. They cannot match the sheer energy density of...

In the red, deeply weathered soils that underpin much of Brazil’s agriculture, phosphorus is a notoriously reluctant traveler. Farmers spread...

Macrophages, the professional scavenger cells of the immune system, have long presented immunotherapists with a paradox. When they are steered...

When cancer spreads to the dura mater, the tough outermost membrane that envelops the brain and spinal cord, the prognosis...

Billions of surgical masks and protective gowns were consumed worldwide during the pandemic years, and most of them ended up...

Insulin resistance sits at the root of some of the most burdensome diseases of modern life, including type 2 diabetes,...

What makes a territory a good place to live? For decades, planners and policymakers have leaned on numbers: unemployment rates,...

Every rice harvest begins with a microscopic event that most people never think about: the moment a dry, seemingly inert...

When a mother in Oman hears the words “breast cancer,” her first thought is often not about herself but about...

A decade-long analysis of health records from millions of US veterans has found that state cannabis legalization is associated with...

Deep inside the human nose, a gene best known for detecting bitter compounds in food is quietly helping the airways...

Every time a streaming service suggests a film, an online shop pushes a product, or a news feed surfaces a...

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has delivered dramatic remissions in blood cancers, but solid tumors have proven far more...

Hearing tests produce some of medicine’s most deceptively simple images. An audiogram is a grid of symbols marking the faintest...

A chemical mark long known to fine-tune plant growth and development has turned out to play a far more dramatic...

Short video platforms have become one of the most data-hungry services on the modern internet, with billions of clips swiped...

Wheat is the quiet workhorse of the global food system, supplying more than twenty percent of the calories and protein...

Behind every bedridden or disabled patient in China’s homes stands an unpaid, largely untrained caregiver — and a new study...