Hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common form of primary liver cancer, remains one of the most formidable challenges in oncology, and...

Cold-water immersion has become one of the most recognisable rituals in modern sport, with athletes from elite soccer squads to...

Vibration is one of the most stubborn enemies of modern engineering. It rattles precision instruments, fatigues aircraft components, degrades the...

Peripheral nerve injuries are among the most stubborn problems in modern medicine. When a nerve is cut, the body launches...

Gravity is famously the weakest of the four fundamental forces, and nowhere is that weakness more humbling than at small...

A microscopic bacterium that lives inside the cells of some of the world’s most destructive rice pests may hold the...

Severe aplastic anemia is one of the most unforgiving diagnoses in hematology. The bone marrow, the factory that manufactures red...

Operating rooms are among the most technologically saturated spaces in medicine, yet many of the devices that surround the surgical...

Deep in the forests of northern and northeastern Thailand, a strange little fungus pushes up through the leaf litter each...

Far below the sunlit surface of the ocean, in the dim realm scientists call the twilight zone, an enormous and...

Micro- and nanoplastics have become one of the most pervasive contaminants of the modern world, and a new narrative review...

Farmers have long been told to fertilize for yield, but a new field study from Tamil Nadu, India, argues that...

Melanoma remains one of the most aggressive human cancers, arising from the pigment-producing melanocytes of the skin and, less commonly,...

Human trafficking remains one of the fastest-growing illicit enterprises on the planet, a grave human rights violation that victimizes millions...

Three decades after France banned one of the most persistent insecticides ever deployed in the Caribbean, the chemical is still...

Lignin, the rigid aromatic polymer that gives wood its strength and lets trees stand tall against gravity, has long been...

Hydrogen has long been heralded as the clean fuel of the future, but producing it without fossil fuels remains one...

The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture has confirmed a leadership transition at one of its most historically significant research...

Mesothelioma has long been one of oncology’s most stubborn adversaries, an aggressive cancer of the lining of the chest and...

Millions of people living with HIV now take antiretroviral therapy that suppresses the virus to undetectable levels, transforming what was...