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For years, researchers have pursued a tantalizing goal in battery science: making oxygen atoms inside a cathode participate in storing...

A new study is challenging one of the most persistent assumptions in urban research: that the greatest living-condition problems are...

Skeletal muscle may be best known for producing movement, but its influence extends far beyond the ability to walk, lift...

CRISPR experiments have become remarkably precise at the level of individual DNA letters, yet proving exactly what happened inside a...

For decades, drug discovery has been dominated by a simple assumption: if a disease-driving protein cannot be reached by a...

For decades, optical frequency combs have transformed precision measurement by turning a single color of light into a dense, evenly...

Glioma remains one of the most difficult cancers to treat. Even with maximal safe surgery followed by radiotherapy and temozolomide...

A new study reported in npj Flexible Electronics is drawing attention to the possibility of producing entire light-sensing systems with...

A New 3D-Printed Electronic Skin Could Give Prosthetic Hands a Sense of Touch A robotic hand fitted with a new...

Anxiety, Not Pain, May Be the Hidden Factor Shaping New Mothers’ Readiness for Newborn Care The first days after childbirth...

A new study of older adults has found that people who routinely went longer without eating accumulated chronic diseases more...

Selenosugars, a group of selenium-containing sugar metabolites that account for much of the selenium eliminated in human urine, have received...

Loneliness may be more than an emotional burden: new research suggests that feeling disconnected from other people, living with limited...

A new study is challenging one of the most persistent problems in modern laser engineering: how to make a laser...

A study published in the British Journal of Cancer reports that removing the gene encoding KDM2A, a histone demethylase, can...

Volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, are usually discussed as individual pollutants: benzene, toluene, formaldehyde and a long list of other...

Nicotine use is often framed as a problem of cigarettes, but a new review in Nature Reviews Cardiology argues that...

Air travel’s climate footprint has made sustainable aviation fuel one of the most urgent engineering challenges in modern transportation. Researchers...

A battery-free pacemaker powered by the motion of a beating heart could one day eliminate the repeated replacement surgeries faced...

Neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy is changing the way doctors approach head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, a group of cancers that arise...