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The race to build Generation IV nuclear reactors has an unsung bottleneck: no metal currently in service can comfortably survive...

Wheat feeds billions, and the shape of its spike, the flowering head that carries the grain, is one of the...

A natural pigment that gives tomatoes their deep red color may offer a surprisingly powerful defense against one of the...

Cancer remains one of the most formidable threats to human health, and the gap between clinical need and available therapy...

A sweeping new analysis of medical research on modern warfare has arrived at a conclusion that is as stark as...

Italy’s leading epilepsy research centers have joined forces to answer one of neurology’s most stubborn questions: what is actually going...

Melatonin has long been celebrated as the brain’s chemical messenger of darkness, the hormone that rises at nightfall and gently...

Every year, mountains of old roofing membranes — the tough, waterproof sheets stripped from homes and commercial buildings during renovations...

Every leaf, tassel, and ear of corn traces its origin to a dome of actively dividing cells smaller than a...

Researchers have unveiled a lithium-ion battery separator that pairs the workhorse durability of polypropylene with the rapid biodegradability of poly(butylene...

Excessive daytime sleepiness is one of the most stubborn and disabling symptoms in sleep medicine, and a new exchange in...

Artificial intelligence has learned to fix one of optical metrology’s most persistent headaches, and it did so without any special...

In the forested hills and agricultural heartland of Kanker district in Chhattisgarh, Central India, the water that millions of rural...

Humidity is one of those deceptively simple physical quantities that turns out to be extraordinarily difficult to measure well. Anyone...

Every night, across farmlands in China and much of the world, light traps lure nocturnal insect pests toward glowing panels,...

The immune system’s ability to hunt down and destroy cancer cells depends on a delicate molecular recognition process, one that...

Quantum computers promise to reshape computation, communication, and information science, yet the field remains haunted by a stubborn problem: the...

In an era when three staple crops—maize, wheat, and rice—feed more than four billion people, scientists are turning their attention...

In a discovery that could reshape the diagnosis of a baffling rare lung disease, researchers at Harvard Medical School and...

Wakame, the tender brown seaweed prized in kitchens from East Asia to California, has a flavor problem. Between the moment...