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Cancer’s deadliest move is often not the growth of the original tumor, but its ability to travel. Metastasis, the spread...

For a blue mussel, eating can be a dangerous business. The animal survives by filtering seawater through its body, extracting...

A new study reports a way to switch on strong light–matter coupling inside a semiconductor terahertz cavity almost instantaneously, opening...

A new strategy for building carbon–carbon bonds could give synthetic chemists a more precise way to modify one of the...

Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, remains one of the world’s most persistent neglected tropical diseases, despite decades of mass...

Citizen science is moving into one of biology’s most complex frontiers: the human microbiome, the vast community of bacteria, archaea,...

A new generation of light-controlled medical electronics could make temporary neural interfaces less invasive and easier to control. In a...

Dopamine has long been cast as the brain’s “motivation molecule,” a chemical messenger that helps shape reward, learning, movement and...

A new study published in Nature Communications reports that sepsis-associated acute kidney injury, one of the most dangerous complications of...

Glioblastoma’s Next Target: Why Precision Drugs Are Still Struggling to Defeat the Brain’s Most Aggressive Cancer Glioblastoma remains the most...

Parkinson’s disease may be entering a new era of prediction, in which the earliest clues to a patient’s future are...

A common bladder infection may be prompting a much bigger medical question than doctors once assumed. A nationwide population-based study...

Light could soon become more than a carrier of data. In a new study published in Light: Science & Applications,...

The liver has long been viewed as a broadly similar organ in men and women, with differences often attributed mainly...

A single atom can determine whether a heterocycle is easy to build, difficult to modify, or inaccessible through conventional synthetic...

Lithium-ion batteries have transformed everything from smartphones to electric vehicles, yet the thin separator hidden inside each cell remains one...

Messenger RNA transformed vaccine science during the COVID-19 pandemic, but its success depended on a delivery system capable of protecting...

For decades, superconductivity has been treated as a property controlled primarily by temperature, magnetic fields, chemical composition and pressure. A...

A new generation of optical filters could make advanced communications systems faster, more adaptable and far less dependent on fixed...

Acute kidney injury can damage far more than the kidneys. When renal blood flow is interrupted and then restored, the...