Lutein, the golden-yellow pigment that accumulates in the human retina and shields our eyes from damaging light, has long been ...

In the rugged, semi-arid highlands of north-eastern Ethiopia, a quiet experiment in genetics has been unfolding across village goat flocks ...

wearable electronics have long faced an awkward trade-off. To sense the faintest tremor of a pulse, a sensor must be ...

Deep in the semiarid backlands of northeastern Brazil, where cracked soils and scorching temperatures test the limits of plant life, ...

Helicobacter pylori is one of the most successful human pathogens on the planet, quietly colonizing the stomachs of roughly half ...

Generative artificial intelligence has swept into hospitals and clinics with a seductive promise: liberate physicians from the tyranny of the ...

The Optica Foundation has announced the recipients of its 2026 prizes and fellowships, distributing six major awards across a field ...

Urease is one of the most consequential enzymes in the microbial world. By hydrolyzing urea into ammonia and carbon dioxide, ...

For more than half a century, the molecular machinery that keeps sugar beet from fertilizing itself has remained one of ...

A compound extracted from a fungus long prized in traditional medicine may finally be ready to realize its anticancer potential, ...

A new review published in the International Journal of Obesity is sounding the alarm about one of the fastest-growing liver ...

Chemists at Razi University in Kermanshah, Iran, have unveiled a new metal-free catalyst that welds two of green chemistry’s favorite ...

A carton of ultra-high-temperature, or UHT, milk looks deceptively simple: heat-treated, sealed, and shelf-stable for months without refrigeration. Yet behind ...

A fungal enzyme once deemed too fragile and too scarce to engineer has been transformed, through laboratory evolution, into a ...

Imagine standing in front of a screen that shows a living, breathing replica of your farm: every soil moisture probe, ...

A team of neurosurgeons and clinical neurophysiologists at King’s College Hospital in London has reported that a non-invasive brain stimulation ...

A 41-year-old Nepalese man living in Japan arrived at a hospital with abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting that had begun ...

Bladder cancer remains one of the most common and deadly malignancies worldwide, and researchers continue to hunt for molecular clues ...

Quantum technologies have long been limited by an awkward mismatch: the wavelengths where quantum light sources work best are rarely ...

A devastating fungal pathogen that destroys enough rice each year to feed 60 million people may finally face a serious ...