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Barley is one of the world’s most important cereal crops, feeding industries from brewing and distilling to pharmaceuticals and animal...

Every electric vehicle that rolls off an assembly line today carries within it a promise of cleaner transportation and, eventually,...

A single transcription factor in grapevine has emerged as a double agent in plant biology, simultaneously arming vines against one...

A sweeping new review published in Molecular Cancer argues that one of oncology’s most tantalizing curiosities, the abscopal effect, has...

When fire consumes a home, a vehicle, or an aircraft, one of the most pressing questions facing investigators is whether...

High on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, where winter temperatures plunge and food becomes scarce for months at a time, the Tibetan...

What if the secret to greener construction materials is already hanging in the back of your closet? A team of...

Bladder urothelial carcinoma remains one of the most challenging malignancies in oncology, a disease whose treatment has been persistently undermined...

Alzheimer’s disease has long been portrayed as a story written in the cortex, the wrinkled outer layer of the brain...

A humble byproduct of bioethanol fermentation, long relegated to low-value disposal, could soon find itself blended into the world’s fuel...

Researchers in India have found a way to transform ordinary marble dust, a low-value by-product of the stone-cutting industry, into...

Cancer research stands at a turning point. Over the past 25 years, the field has been transformed by genomic sequencing,...

For the millions of people who survive a stroke or traumatic brain injury each year, the most stubborn obstacles to...

A new study published in Nature Chemistry reports a chemical strategy that allows commercial polymethacrylates, a widely used family of...

A striking molecular portrait of treatment failure in leishmaniasis has emerged from Thailand, where researchers tracked the parasite Leishmania (Mundinia)...

Beneath many of the world’s cities and agricultural regions lies a hidden network of long-distance water conveyance tunnels, structures that...

For patients whose abdomens swell painfully with fluid as cancer spreads through the peritoneum, relief has traditionally meant a repeated...

The sixth generation of wireless communication, widely expected to arrive commercially around 2030, is currently being defined in standardization processes...

Benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene—together known as BTEX—are among the most widespread and stubborn organic pollutants on the planet. These...

Microplastics have become one of the most pervasive pollutants on the planet, turning up everywhere from the deepest ocean trenches...