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A single spray of fragmented DNA extracted from a plant’s own species may be enough to arm a crop against caterpillars, fungi, and bacteria while...

Every tumor tells a story in its DNA, but the mutations themselves are only half the tale. Scientists have long known that breast cancers can...

The black rabbits of China have long been prized by local farmers for their hardiness, their flavorful meat, and their remarkable ability to thrive where...

The race to build Generation IV nuclear reactors has an unsung bottleneck: no metal currently in service can comfortably survive the combination of extreme heat,...

Wheat feeds billions, and the shape of its spike, the flowering head that carries the grain, is one of the most important yet stubbornly difficult...

A natural pigment that gives tomatoes their deep red color may offer a surprisingly powerful defense against one of the world’s most pervasive food contaminants....

Cancer remains one of the most formidable threats to human health, and the gap between clinical need and available therapy has never closed completely. A...

A sweeping new analysis of medical research on modern warfare has arrived at a conclusion that is as stark as it is counterintuitive: although unmanned...

Italy’s leading epilepsy research centers have joined forces to answer one of neurology’s most stubborn questions: what is actually going on in the brains of...

Melatonin has long been celebrated as the brain’s chemical messenger of darkness, the hormone that rises at nightfall and gently steers the body’s circadian machinery....

Every year, mountains of old roofing membranes — the tough, waterproof sheets stripped from homes and commercial buildings during renovations and demolitions — end up...

Every leaf, tassel, and ear of corn traces its origin to a dome of actively dividing cells smaller than a millimeter across, hidden at the...

Researchers have unveiled a lithium-ion battery separator that pairs the workhorse durability of polypropylene with the rapid biodegradability of poly(butylene adipate-co-terephthalate), better known as PBAT,...

Excessive daytime sleepiness is one of the most stubborn and disabling symptoms in sleep medicine, and a new exchange in the Journal of Clinical Sleep...

Artificial intelligence has learned to fix one of optical metrology’s most persistent headaches, and it did so without any special training. In a new study...