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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...

Antibiotic resistance research has taken a significant step forward with the publication of a comprehensive genomic survey that decodes the full repertoire of fosfomycin resistance...

Turner syndrome, a genetic condition affecting approximately one in every 2,000 to 2,500 live female births, has long been recognized as far more than a...

Researchers report that metformin, one of the most widely prescribed drugs in the world, can dial down the runaway inflammatory signaling that drives a rare...

Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn, a life-threatening condition in which a baby’s circulatory system fails to make the transition from fetal to neonatal blood...

For decades, people living with diabetes were routinely discouraged from pushing their bodies to the extreme limits of endurance sport. The fear was understandable: prolonged...