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In a striking demonstration of how engineering can stand in for biology, researchers in the Netherlands and Switzerland have shown that a vestibulocochlear implant can...

Microwave ablation, one of the most widely used locoregional treatments for liver cancer, may do far more than simply destroy tumor tissue. A new study...

Artificial intelligence is often described as a force of nature, an autonomous wave of technological progress that societies must simply adapt to or be swept...

A team of Romanian researchers has developed a disposable, stamp-sized electrochemical platform capable of distinguishing between the two mirror-image forms of lysine directly in whole...

The world’s ports handle billions of tonnes of cargo every year, and at the heart of the container terminal sits an unglamorous workhorse: the Rubber...

A new artificial intelligence model that reads time series data the way a skilled human analyst might—by looking at both the overall shape of a...

Reinforcement learning has always had a quiet flaw at its heart: most of the algorithms that power it assume the world stays still. Now a...

Researchers at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town have reported a systematic development process aimed at building a single-photon detector that costs...

Soil salinization is quietly strangling global agriculture, rendering once-fertile fields barren as sodium accumulates in the ground faster than crops can cope. Now, a team...

In a comprehensive new review published in Molecular Biology Reports, researchers from Hangzhou Medical College and Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital have assembled one of the...

The immune system of the chicken has long fascinated immunologists because it operates with a stripped-down, elegant version of the genetic machinery that humans and...

The trillions of microbes that inhabit the human gut have long been suspected of playing a role in colorectal cancer, but the rectum itself has...

Cadmium is one of the most troubling contaminants in the global food supply, and chocolate has become one of its most recognizable carriers. For cacao...

For patients with drug-resistant mesial temporal lobe epilepsy, the decision to operate hinges on a question that has long frustrated epilepsy surgeons: not just where...

Osteoarthritis affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide, yet the treatments available to them remain stubbornly palliative. Painkillers, anti-inflammatory drugs and, eventually, joint replacement surgery...