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High-entropy alloys have long promised a new era of metals designed not around one dominant element, but around the deliberate chaos of five or more...

In a development that could reshape how farmers think about seed treatments, researchers in India have shown that a single plant hormone—indole-3-acetic acid, the auxin...

Modern pig farming is a high-performance enterprise, and that performance comes at a physiological price. Highly productive, fast-growing genetics, early weaning, heat stress, mycotoxin-contaminated feed,...

The Nipah virus, one of the deadliest pathogens on the World Health Organization’s priority list, has long haunted public health officials across South and Southeast...

The iconic yaks of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau have long been studied as a single hardy species adapted to life at extreme altitudes, but new genomic...

In the rolling highlands of Northwest Ethiopia, where a single ambulance may serve tens of thousands of people scattered across mud-road villages, a new study...

Grass carp, one of the most economically important freshwater aquaculture species in the world, has been plagued since 2019 by a mysterious and increasingly widespread...

For millions of people with chronic insomnia, the nightly ritual of swallowing a benzodiazepine or a related sleeping pill has quietly become a trap. These...

A handful of soil can tell a remarkable story. Squeeze it, weigh it, dry it in an oven, and the numbers that emerge describe exactly...

Artificial intelligence is moving into hospitals, clinics, and classrooms at a pace that few predicted a decade ago, and the students training to become the...

Researchers in Brazil have shown that a fast, low-cost fiber fabrication technique can turn a common fluoropolymer into tough, water-repellent nanocomposite mats—but only up to...

Mentorship has long been recognized as one of the most powerful predictors of a physician’s professional trajectory, shaping everything from career choice and research productivity...

Only about one in ten parents in Sudan has a solid grasp of autism spectrum disorder, according to a new cross-sectional survey that reveals deep...

Why do some young doctors, facing a vast menu of high-technology specialties, choose instead to devote their careers to the oldest and frailest members of...

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...