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In the dense tropical forests of Thailand, a remarkable case of botanical deception has come to light—one that rewrites what scientists thought they knew about...

When surgeons remove a portion of a cancerous lung, one of the most frustrating complications they can face is air. A persistent leak from the...

In a development that could reshape how scientists study the mechanics of human movement, a team of biomedical engineers and computer scientists has unveiled an...

Optical frequency combs have transformed the way scientists measure light and time, earning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2005 and underpinning technologies ranging from...

The Denisovans, the enigmatic archaic human relatives first identified from a finger bone and a handful of teeth in a Siberian cave, have long been...

Wildfire scientists have unveiled a new rapid risk-assessment tool that shows substantial wildfire danger to homes and buildings in three major Arctic communities, revealing that...

Respiratory syncytial virus, known widely as RSV, has long been thought of as a disease of infancy, yet its burden extends across the entire human...

Parents are often the first to notice when a child’s words come late or sentences fail to form, and clinicians have long relied on that...

Alcohol-related liver disease remains one of the most burdensome consequences of chronic alcohol consumption worldwide, progressing silently from fatty liver through inflammation and fibrosis toward...

For athletes hunting for a legal edge in the final minutes before competition, caffeine has long been the go-to molecule. But swallowing a capsule an...

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...