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Groundwater may be the last great blind spot in microplastic research, and a team of hydrogeologists in the United States believes the reason is largely...

In a finding that is reshaping how veterinarians and molecular epidemiologists understand the hidden diversity of one of the world’s most important tick-borne pathogens, researchers...

Scientists are taking a closer look at one of the most unusual forms of cell death ever described, a process known as disulfidptosis, which appears...

Idiopathic short stature, the diagnosis given to children who fall far below normal height curves without any identifiable cause, has long frustrated pediatric endocrinologists because...

For nearly two decades, forensic pathologists have been able to peer inside the dead without a scalpel, thanks to a constellation of imaging technologies that...

Scientists in South Korea have taken a major step toward transforming one of the country’s oldest culinary traditions into a safer, more consistent, and more...

Pathological internet use among adolescents has long been treated as a single, uniform problem, but a new study of more than 6,000 Chinese teenagers suggests...

Antibiotics save lives, but they can also wreck the delicate microbial ecosystem of the gut, and in children that collateral damage often takes the form...

In a development that could reshape how clinicians monitor lung development before birth, researchers in China have demonstrated that an advanced magnetic resonance imaging technique...

For centuries, the resin of a small, scrubby tree that grows in the arid mountains of the Arabian Peninsula has occupied a near-mythical place in...

Coral-eating snails have long been notorious for devastating reefs across the Indo-Pacific, but scientists working in Indonesia have now caught them doing something no one...

Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, better known as ARFID, has been formally recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders since 2013, yet clinicians...

When governments decide whether to pay for a new medicine, a vaccine, a screening program or a medical device, the decision ideally rests not on...

Chronic kidney disease-associated pruritus, the relentless and often debilitating itch that afflicts people on dialysis, has long been regarded primarily as a quality-of-life problem. A...

Melanoma remains one of the most aggressive and treatment-resistant forms of human cancer, and although immune checkpoint inhibitors have transformed outcomes for a subset of...