Every year, the world’s cities chew through staggering quantities of concrete, and every year they spit out a mountain of...

When the ocean creeps inland and salt poisons farmland, most plants shrivel and die. Mangroves, however, stand rooted in seawater...

Ovarian cancer remains the deadliest of all gynecological malignancies, and the numbers behind that grim distinction explain why a new...

An international team of researchers has assembled one of the largest single-cell genetic atlases ever built, profiling more than ten...

Plastics that mend their own cracks have long been a dream of materials science, but most self-healing polymers still depend...

Every gene in the human genome carries a hidden layer of instructions that determines which parts of its RNA message...

Magnetic resonance imaging has long depended on a small family of gadolinium-based contrast agents to light up blood vessels, organs,...

Bambara groundnut, a humble underground legume that has sustained communities across sub-Saharan Africa for centuries, is quietly emerging as one...

A large nationwide study from China has provided some of the most detailed real-world evidence yet on how patients with...

Quality of life has quietly become one of the most important ideas in modern developmental medicine. For decades, clinicians treating...

Textile dyeing is one of the most water-hungry and polluting industries on the planet. Every kilogram of finished fabric demands...

As heat waves grow longer, hotter, and more frequent across the globe, scientists are racing to understand why extreme heat...

Security researchers have unveiled a new optimization algorithm that borrows its logic from the human immune system, and it could...

Genomic selection has reshaped modern plant breeding, allowing scientists to predict the genetic worth of a seedling from its DNA...

For children with immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) whose platelet counts refuse to rise despite repeated treatment attempts, one of the most...

Tuberculosis remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases on the planet, and the rise of drug-resistant strains has made rapid,...

A single swapped amino acid can be the difference between a protein that folds into a precise, functioning molecular machine...

For decades, agricultural scientists have treated soil acidity and soil carbon as two separate problems demanding two separate solutions. A...

Rice, the staple grain that feeds more than half of humanity, is under constant siege. In China alone, outbreaks of...

When doctors destroy a liver tumor with heat instead of surgery, the entire battle is won or lost by millimeters....