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Twistronics has become a kind of modern alchemy for condensed matter physicists. By taking atomically thin layers of crystalline materials,...

One of the world’s most familiar probiotic bacteria has revealed a surprising survival trick, and it may change how scientists...

Burn injuries affect more than 11 million people every year, and the search for dressings that do more than simply...

For millions of women diagnosed with breast cancer each year, surviving the disease is only the first step of a...

For decades, one of the most persistent hypotheses in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) research has been deceptively simple: patients...

Temporomandibular joint osteoarthritis, a degenerative disorder that slowly erodes the cartilage cushioning the jaw, affects millions of people who struggle...

Every year, vast quantities of nitrogen fertilizer applied to pastures and croplands are transformed by soil microbes into nitrate, a...

Going without food for days does more than shrink the waistline. It quietly reshapes the way the brain reacts to...

One of the most stubborn problems in industrial robotics is deceptively simple to describe: slide a peg into a hole....

Rice farmers and quarantine inspectors may soon have a powerful new weapon against one of the world’s most destructive rice...

Decompressive craniectomy, the dramatic operation in which surgeons remove a large portion of the skull to give a swollen brain...

Every tissue in the human body is a mosaic. Tumor biopsies, blood samples, and frozen sections of diseased organs all...

Every time a cell breaks down food, processes a drug, or responds to a chemical, it produces a cascade of...

For decades, food safety regulators have focused on the acute dangers of diarrhetic shellfish toxins, the potent compounds produced by...

For patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma that takes root in the gastrointestinal tract, the first rounds of chemotherapy are...

For half a century, one of the most fundamental questions about the third domain of life has remained stubbornly unresolved:...

A sweeping review published in The Science of Nature argues that some of the most important tools for building nanomaterials...

Radar has long promised a way to watch human movement without cameras: no faces captured, no privacy-invading imagery, just the...

Apples are one of the planet’s most produced fruits, with global output exceeding 97 million tons in 2023, led by...

Just weeks after finishing treatment for kidney or bowel cancer, many patients believe they are doing everything right. They walk,...