Every year, millions of tonnes of polypropylene enter the environment as packaging, agricultural films, automotive components and everyday consumer goods. Once outdoors, these plastics are...
Wastewater-based surveillance has emerged over the past decade as one of the most informative complements to clinical testing for tracking viral pathogens at the population...
The pursuit of scalable three-dimensional integration represents one of the most consequential engineering challenges facing the flexible and stretchable electronics community. Conventional rigid electronics benefited...
The transition to climate-neutral agriculture is one of the most consequential undertakings of the twenty-first century, and a new analysis published in npj Sustainable Agriculture...
Aging has long been treated as an inevitable slide toward slower thinking, patchier memory, and a brain quietly simmering in its own inflammatory chemistry. A...
The dream of a permanent human presence on the Moon has always collided with a brutally simple problem: everything needed to build a lunar base...
Oncolytic virotherapy has long been framed by a deceptively simple metaphor: convert immunologically cold tumors into hot ones by flooding them with inflammatory T cells....
A metabolic signalling axis that scientists had long overlooked may be helping one of the most stubborn blood cancers keep itself alive. In a study...
The aging of the female reproductive system has long been framed as a simple problem of depletion: women are born with a finite pool of...
One of the planet’s oldest carbon-removal technologies has just received a biological upgrade. Rock weathering, the slow chemical reaction in which rainwater and seawater dissolve...
Solar-cell researchers have spent much of the past decade pushing perovskite photovoltaics from laboratory curiosities toward commercial viability, and the latest milestone comes from an...
For decades, functional magnetic resonance imaging has offered scientists an unmatched window into the human brain, revealing whole-brain networks at work without a single incision....
China’s Sponge City program was conceived as an engineering answer to a hydrological problem: how to keep rapidly expanding urban areas from drowning under increasingly...
In the mining towns scattered across South Africa’s West Rand, a quiet but consequential question sits at the intersection of environmental health and everyday life:...
A sweeping new analysis of millions of Chinese social media posts has uncovered a counterintuitive signal in the digital language of depression: people at risk...
