A simple change in recipe has produced a striking result in the quest for safer, flexible batteries. Researchers at Maharaja...

A sobering investigation from Bahir Dar, a lakeside city in northern Ethiopia where eating raw beef is a cherished culinary...

Every student who has ever stared at an online course catalogue, paralyzed by thousands of options, has met the recommender...

Irrigation canals are the hidden circulatory system of global agriculture. Millions of kilometers of human-made channels carry water from rivers,...

One of the most persistent puzzles in modern cancer immunotherapy may have just lost its most popular explanation. A large...

A combination treatment for advanced liver cancer appears to do something remarkable inside the tumor itself: it helps build the...

Minimally invasive imaging has long faced an uncomfortable trade-off: the deeper a physician needs to look inside the body, the...

Antibiotic resistance is one of the most pressing public health threats of the modern era, and wastewater treatment plants sit...

Every mammalian brain begins as a modest pool of progenitor cells, yet it ends up containing hundreds of molecularly distinct...

When surgeons remove a kidney tumor, they face a delicate balancing act: cut away the cancer while preserving as much...

One of the most common treatments in medicine may work very differently in men and women. When patients arrive at...

A chemical code written onto the DNA of a single gene may help determine who suffers an ischemic stroke and...

For decades, the scanning tunnelling microscope has been the gold standard for seeing matter one atom at a time. By...

Rice feeds more than half of humanity, yet the world’s paddies face a tightening squeeze: demand is projected to reach...

Immune checkpoint receptors have become some of the most closely watched molecules in modern medicine, the molecular brakes that tumors...

The Hawaiian bobtail squid has long been a darling of the symbiosis research world, a palm-sized cephalopod that spends its...

A drug best known to the public as a treatment for erectile dysfunction is at the center of one of...

A humble soil amendment made from burned crop residue may hold the key to one of rice farming’s most persistent...

Ovarian cancer remains one of the most lethal gynecological malignancies in the world, claiming more than 200,000 lives each year...

A team of pediatric researchers in Wuhan, China, has identified a set of blood-borne proteins that could help doctors detect...