Carbon monoxide occupies a peculiar position in the human imagination. It is the silent killer, the odorless gas that seeps...

In a finding that could reshape how scientists think about the hormones behind hair growth, researchers in China have shown...

More than a century ago, the French physicist Louis Georges Gouy noticed something strange about focused light. When a spherical...

A cucumber is not always green. As the fruit matures, the peel of some varieties shifts to a striking yellow,...

Metaplastic breast cancer is one of the rarest and most feared subtypes of breast malignancy, accounting for only a small...

At the 18-month well-child visit, pediatricians are supposed to do something remarkably difficult: detect, in a few minutes of observation,...

A team of pharmaceutical scientists in India has unveiled a new analytical method for measuring the antifungal drug itraconazole that...

A wild medicinal plant from the mountains of western Iran has put a new spin on one of poultry science’s...

For more than six decades, the neodymium-doped yttrium aluminium garnet laser — known to nearly every physicist and engineer simply...

Deep in the cashew belt of southern Tanzania, where the trees were planted long before anyone released an improved variety,...

A metabolic enzyme long known simply as a cellular housekeeper for fat synthesis may hold the key to rescuing one...

A team of French and Italian researchers has uncovered fresh evidence that long-lived industrial chemicals lingering in human blood may...

A team of chemists and physicists from Cameroon, Germany and India has designed, synthesized and computationally screened a new family...

Oncogenic viruses are notorious for rewiring the cells they infect, but a new study reveals an unexpectedly devious trick: commandeering...

Breathing exercises have quietly become one of the most widely recommended tools for managing stress, anxiety and even the physiological...

Every year, the global citrus industry generates mountains of discarded peels, seeds, and pulp—roughly half to sixty percent of every...

Lung cancer screening programs built around low-dose computed tomography are catching tumors earlier than ever before, and that success has...

Therapeutic hypothermia is one of the great success stories of modern neonatal medicine. By deliberately lowering the body temperature of...

Few classes of industrial chemicals have earned a nickname as ominous as “forever chemicals,” yet the label is scientifically deserved....

For years, genomicists have relied on a single linear reference genome as the backbone of read mapping, a convention that...