A groundbreaking life cycle assessment of 90 commonly consumed Indonesian foods has revealed staggering differences in how efficiently the country’s staples deliver nutrition relative to...
In the humid forests of Mexico, a metallic blue-green dung beetle engages in a form of parental devotion that is rare among insects. The subsocial...
The explosive growth of smartphone-based location data has transformed how scientists study human mobility, how cities plan transportation networks, and how public health officials track...
Non-small cell lung cancer remains the deadliest malignancy worldwide, claiming more lives each year than any other form of the disease, and much of that...
Forensic scientists in South Africa have shown for the first time that the skulls of children carry measurable, population-specific signals that can be used to...
Physicists at the University at Buffalo have produced a mathematical solution to one of the most striking puzzles in modern quantum physics: how matter can...
A new study has uncovered the molecular machinery that allows the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum to sense hostile conditions in human blood and convert itself...
Engineers and computer scientists face a familiar dilemma when designing almost anything complex: improving one objective often means sacrificing another. A faster aircraft engine may...
Cancers that affect women exclusively—breast, ovarian, cervical, and endometrial—are often treated in oncology as four separate organ sites, each with its own research silos, screening...
Influenza B virus has long lived in the shadow of its influenza A counterpart, attracting less attention from researchers and public health authorities despite its...
A rare and devastating inherited immune disorder may have a new path toward treatment, thanks to a proof-of-concept study demonstrating that CRISPR base editors can...
Researchers at Zhejiang University and the Zhejiang University of Water Resources and Electric Power have unveiled a new framework that addresses a subtle but pervasive...
A sweeping new review argues that a technology capable of reading a soil’s chemistry from the way it reflects light could transform how the world...
Calcitriol, the hormonally active form of vitamin D, has long been suspected of harboring anticancer properties, but the precise molecular circuitry it exploits in skin...
For more than a decade, hospitals around the world have experimented with a simple idea: instead of asking every patient with a broken bone to...
