Researchers have unveiled a terahertz absorber whose design takes an unexpected cue from national symbolism: a graphene metasurface patterned in the shape of the Canadian...
Leaf rust, driven by the fungal pathogen Puccinia hordei, is one of the most geographically widespread diseases of barley and can strip susceptible cultivars of...
Springer Nature has opened the stage for one of the most closely watched recognition programs in scholarly publishing, announcing the Editor of Distinction Awards for...
Polygenic risk scores, which aggregate the tiny effects of hundreds or thousands of genetic variants into a single estimate of an individual’s predisposition to a...
When the remnants of Typhoon Doksuri swept across northern China in late July 2023, they delivered a deluge that few in the semi-humid Northeastern Taihang...
Fresh beef sold online often travels a surprisingly rough road. In the booming world of e-commerce, steaks are typically shipped in expanded polystyrene boxes packed...
Cancer cells are famously difficult to kill, and much of modern oncology has been built on the assumption that apoptosis—the tidy, silent self-destruction of cells—is...
Infants born with gastroschisis face one of the most visually striking and clinically demanding challenges in neonatal medicine. In this congenital abdominal wall defect, the...
Deep in northeastern Brazil, one of the world’s most overlooked biomes may hold the key to replacing a family of controversial synthetic food additives. Scientists...
Recombinant protein production underpins much of modern biotechnology, from therapeutic enzymes and monoclonal antibodies to industrial enzymes used in food and cosmetics. Yet coaxing a...
Soft robots have long promised the kind of adaptable, muscle-like movement that rigid machines cannot match, but most of them can only ever walk, grip,...
Sleep is one of the most undervalued vital signs in medicine, and a new study suggests that for adolescents and young adults diagnosed with cancer,...
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...
