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Deep beneath the seabed of China’s Bohai Bay, an invisible chemical war is being waged by some of the smallest combatants in the petroleum industry....

The terahertz band has long been heralded as the promised land of wireless communications, offering vast swaths of unoccupied spectrum that could carry data at...

For millions of stroke survivors worldwide, the moment they are declared medically stable is often treated as the finish line of rehabilitation. Yet for people...

Structural biologists searching for a faster way to visualize the smallest and most stubborn proteins now have a new tool at their disposal. A research...

Magnesium has long been celebrated as the lightest structural metal available to engineers, offering a combination of high specific strength, excellent castability, and remarkable vibration...

Colorectal carcinoma remains one of the most challenging malignancies to treat, and researchers continue to search for metabolic vulnerabilities that can be exploited therapeutically. One...

How long ago did this person die? It sounds like a simple question, but for forensic anthropologists confronted with a set of weathered, skeletonized remains,...

Cities are strange mathematical objects. They grow, expand, and interconnect in ways that stubbornly refuse to obey the tidy geometry taught in school, and a...

The two most urgent shopping lists in modern materials science—clean water and cheap solar power—rarely share a single item. Yet a team of researchers in...

A tiny African fish that races through its entire life in a matter of months has given scientists one of the clearest biochemical portraits of...

Every year, the global food industry peels, trims, and slices billions of onions, discarding tons of papery outer skin that most consumers never think twice...

For more than a decade, chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing, better known as ChIP-seq, has been the workhorse method for locating where transcription factors bind...

When a newborn baby’s life hangs in the balance and every second of circulatory collapse counts, clinicians face one of the most unforgiving technical challenges...

Surgery remains the cornerstone of curative cancer treatment, yet a growing body of research suggests that the operation itself may briefly tip the balance in...

A new study from two tertiary hospitals in Central Ethiopia is challenging long-held assumptions about which malaria parasite deserves the most clinical attention. For decades,...