Every day, hospitals around the world generate millions of computed tomography scans, and most of them contain a quiet, underused...

Gouda cheese is supposed to age into a smooth, dense wheel with a mild, nutty character. When something goes wrong...

Every night, millions of people settle in front of streaming platforms to watch films, series, and live events, and nearly...

Freeze-drying is supposed to be the gentle giant of food preservation. Fruit is frozen, the surrounding pressure drops, and the...

Every hour a person with cancer spends in a waiting room, on an infusion chair, or in a hospital bed...

Chronic pain has long been described as a matter of raw sensation, a persistent alarm that the body cannot switch...

Friendship, it turns out, may run deeper in chimpanzees than a simple preference for grooming partners. A new study from...

Remote sensing has become one of the most consequential eyes humanity has ever built. Satellites and aerial platforms now monitor...

Inside a Chinese solar greenhouse, the air is not one climate but many. On a sunny winter afternoon, the temperature...

Deep inside liver tumors, communities of bacteria appear to be quietly shaping whether the most aggressive forms of hepatocellular carcinoma...

Hypercalcemia—dangerously elevated calcium in the blood—is rare in children, but when it appears in hospitalized infants and toddlers it can...

Scientists have built and validated the first custom Infinium DNA methylation array designed specifically to profile the human imprintome, the...

For more than two decades, engineers have dreamed of shrinking transistors into the ultimate limit of thinness: a single atomic...

Enhanced-efficiency nitrogen fertilizers, the high-tech products marketed as a way to squeeze more grain out of every kilogram of applied...

Colorectal cancer remains one of the deadliest and most preventable malignancies worldwide, yet the people who stand on the front...

Every year, millions of people undergo computed tomography scans of the heart, and every year those scans reveal the same...

Researchers at the University of South Africa’s Institute for Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability have engineered an electrochemical aptasensor that can...

Epigenetic memory is one of the strangest and most consequential features of the genome. Across generations, cells and even whole...

Every second, the digital world produces torrents of data that never stop flowing: sensor readings from factories, transactions from payment...

Rice, the staple food for more than half of humanity, has a persistent and well-documented problem: the grains it produces...