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Coal remains a cornerstone of the global energy supply even as renewables expand, and its extraction carries a hidden prize: methane, the main component of...

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma remains one of the most lethal human malignancies, with a five-year survival rate of roughly thirteen percent across all stages and only...

One of the most stubborn problems in advanced manufacturing has just been given a sweeping, solutions-oriented makeover. In a comprehensive review published in the journal...

For patients with inoperable liver tumors, transarterial radioembolization offers a way to deliver lethal radiation doses directly into the vascular supply of malignancies while sparing...

In a discovery that may finally explain one of the most confounding paradoxes in cancer biology, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have...

Invisible forces surround us all the time. The Earth’s magnetic field bathes every living organism on the planet, while human-made magnetic fields emanate from power...

Deep inside the human intestine lives an ecosystem so vast that its genetic repertoire dwarfs our own genome by roughly an order of magnitude. More...

Machine learning models that predict how long patients survive after stomach cancer surgery are showing remarkable accuracy, and one of the simplest statistical approaches is...

A ten-year-old castrated male mixed breed dog walked into his routine wellness visit with what looked like a minor soft tissue problem: mild swelling around...

A team of researchers has unveiled a printing technology that takes its cue from one of nature’s most overlooked design tricks: foam. In a study...

Soybean, the humble legume that supplies a substantial fraction of the world’s protein and vegetable oil, has just received the most detailed cellular portrait ever...

For decades, one stubborn side reaction has haunted the field of electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction: hydrogen. Whenever engineers and chemists apply a cathodic current to...

Deep beneath the soil, a microscopic war is being waged between fungi, and one of the most important weapons in that conflict has now been...

In a discovery that reshapes how scientists understand one of medicine’s most stubborn liver diseases, researchers have identified a molecule produced by gut bacteria as...

When disaster strikes, the people who arrive on the scene first are rarely professional rescuers. They are neighbors, commuters, family members—ordinary members of the public...