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Rice feeds more people on Earth than almost any other crop, yet every growing season its fields are besieged by pathogens and insects that can...

Memes have become one of the most pervasive modes of communication on social media, blending images and text with humor, irony, and cultural references. While...

A bumper harvest is not always a safe harvest. That is the unsettling conclusion of a sweeping new review published in the journal Discover Soil,...

A team of researchers in China has developed a machine learning tool that can predict, before a single incision is made, whether a woman’s breast...

A retired British rheumatologist who stumbled upon one of the largest surviving collections of First World War surgical records has given science a remarkably intimate...

The humble club myrobalan, Terminalia chebula, has been a fixture of traditional medicine across Asia for centuries, but its genome has remained largely terra incognita....

Researchers at the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR) in Mexico have unveiled TOTEM, a fully open-source, solar-powered aeroponic system that grows crops vertically...

Chimeric antigen receptor therapies have transformed the treatment of certain blood cancers, producing dramatic remissions in patients with leukemia and lymphoma who had exhausted every...

Deep inside the abdomen, the body’s largest blood vessel quietly widens and stiffens with age, and in some people it swells into a dangerous bulge...

Sourdough is one of the oldest fermented foods on Earth, yet the microbial partnerships that make it work remain remarkably fragile when scaled up to...

Cardiovascular disease remains the world’s deadliest health problem, claiming 19.2 million lives in 2023, with prevalent cases climbing to a record 626 million. Yet the...

Plant-based burgers, dairy-free cheeses, and meat analogues live or die by their texture, yet predicting how a new formulation will feel in the mouth remains...

For decades, pathologists looking at ependymomas under the microscope saw one disease: a tumor of ependymal cells lining the brain’s fluid-filled ventricles, with a deceptively...

A twelve-week program of home-based video game exercise may do more than lift mood and fitness in people living with early cognitive decline. According to...

Every year, the global food industry discards enormous quantities of protein-rich byproducts, and one of the most overlooked among them is mung bean meal, the...