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Varicella zoster virus, the neurotropic herpesvirus behind chickenpox and shingles, has long been known to hide silently in sensory neurons after an initial infection, only...

When a surgeon replaces a section of the body’s largest artery with a tube of woven polyester, the operation is meant to be a definitive...

Folate receptor alpha, a cell-surface protein long exploited as a delivery target in epithelial ovarian cancer, is emerging as a far more consequential player in...

Metal halide perovskite quantum dots (PQDs) have dazzled materials scientists for nearly a decade with an almost improbable combination of optical virtues: photoluminescence quantum yields...

Aphids are among the most economically destructive agricultural pests on the planet, and a sweeping new review published in BMC Agriculture argues that the key...

In a development that could reshape how one of pregnancy’s most dangerous complications is detected, researchers have built a machine learning model that classifies early-onset...

A synthetic compound derived from a family of molecules first described in the nineteenth century is emerging as a surprising weapon against one of the...

In the windowless hatchery tanks of Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute in San Diego, thousands of newly hatched white seabass drift through their most dangerous weeks of...

Occupational therapists working on the front lines of acute mental health care often enter the profession with a powerful conviction: that meaningful everyday activity—occupation, in...

For patients who undergo curative-intent surgery for hepatocellular carcinoma, the operation itself is only half the battle. Even when surgeons remove all visible tumor tissue,...

Colorectal cancer has long been divided into two camps at the genetic level: tumors carrying mutations in the KRAS gene and tumors that do not....

A team of chemists at Lyuliang University in China has crafted a single nanomaterial that wears two very different hats: it glows brightly and dims...

Every year, humanity discards roughly one-third of the food it produces, a torrent of peels, scraps, cooking oil, and spoiled produce that ends up in...

Every year, sausage and processed meat producers quietly lose staggering sums of money to a problem most consumers never see: emulsions that break down before...

Every year, billions of liters of used frying oil are poured down drains, dumped into landfills, or collected at considerable expense by waste management companies....