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In a development that blurs the line between synthetic materials and living tissue, researchers have unveiled a new class of self-assembling, 3D-printable materials that closely...

Genomic dark matter has long been the paradox at the heart of human genetics. The vast majority of disease-associated DNA variants identified by genome-wide association...

Machine learning has transformed nearly every corner of modern science and industry, but the field is now confronting an uncomfortable truth: the computational resources required...

Artificial intelligence has come for one of football’s most contested activities: deciding which players are worth signing, and how much they are truly worth. A...

Golgi-associated plant pathogenesis-related protein 1, or GAPR-1, has long been known as a small, peripheral membrane protein that sits on the cytosolic face of the...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, working with a collaborator at the University of California, Irvine, have unveiled a new artificial intelligence framework...

In the steaming hot springs of Tengchong, in China’s southwestern Yunnan Province, a team of researchers has uncovered a hidden world of methane-cycling microbes that...

In the cloud forests of the southern Ecuadorian Andes, where steep ridges wrap themselves in near-perpetual mist and epiphytic orchids crowd every available branch, an...

Antihypertensive treatment has prevented a substantial and growing share of strokes worldwide over the past three decades, but the benefits remain strikingly uneven across countries,...

A tiny molecule that teaches both cancer cells and immune cells to fight is offering a new angle on one of oncology’s most stubborn problems:...

Human papillomavirus, the most common sexually transmitted infection in the world, remains a formidable public health challenge despite decades of progress in vaccination and screening....

Colistin was supposed to be the last line of defense. When carbapenems failed and every other antibiotic had been exhausted, physicians caring for patients with...

For the millions of patients who require a breathing tube each year, the moment of liberation from the ventilator is one of the most consequential...

A simple bedside test that has been used for decades to probe the frontal lobes may be less powerful at separating the two most confusing...

Immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of many cancers, and nowhere has its impact been more dramatic than in breast cancers that were once considered among...