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A large national study of Scottish teenagers has revealed that depression, parental conflict and the quality of the parent–child bond...

Berlin’s forensic medicine community has delivered a sobering message to courtrooms worldwide: in the vast majority of reported sexual assault...

In the escalating arms race between medicine and multidrug-resistant bacteria, scientists have reported a strikingly simple-sounding but powerful advance: sugar-coated...

Lithium-sulfur and sodium-sulfur batteries have long promised a revolution in energy storage, offering theoretical energy densities far beyond today’s lithium-ion...

Bone age assessment, one of the most widely performed tasks in pediatric radiology, is far more variable than clinicians might...

When a human body decomposes, it passes through a predictable sequence of stages, from fresh and bloated through active and...

When a plant goes thirsty, it changes the way it smells to the world around it—and that simple fact may...

Caring for a loved one with an eating disorder is one of the most emotionally demanding roles in modern medicine,...

Axial spondyloarthritis, a chronic and often debilitating inflammatory disease of the spine and sacroiliac joints, has long forced patients to...

Colombia’s effort to build a workable regulatory framework for medicinal cannabis has received a rigorous scientific roadmap, thanks to a...

In the intricate world of cancer biology, some of the smallest molecules in the human body are turning out to...

When the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world in early 2020, pharmacies emptied of vitamins, honey sales surged, and social...

Diabetic ketoacidosis, or DKA, is one of the most dramatic emergencies in medicine. When the body cannot use glucose for...

In one of the most detailed mathematical comparisons yet of the world’s most sought-after weight-loss drugs, researchers have found that...

Eggplant, one of the world’s most beloved vegetables and a staple of cuisines from South Asia to the Mediterranean, is...

In the peri-urban farming communities that ring Niamey, the capital of Niger, climate change is not an abstract future threat...

In the escalating arms race between antibiotics and the bacteria that evade them, a team of computational biologists at Southwest...

Scientists have decoded the complete genome of a soil bacterium that can simultaneously boost plant growth, unlock locked-up nutrients in...

When an experienced intensive care nurse walks to a patient’s bedside after a shift handover, her eyes perform a rapid,...

In a development that could reshape how pediatricians manage one of the most common forms of childhood vasculitis, researchers in...