Beneath every scorched European heathland lies an invisible workforce: saprotrophic fungi that decompose dead plant material, recycle nutrients, and keep ecosystems running. As climate change...
Aboard a spacecraft, the air astronauts breathe is a closed loop, recycled endlessly through ducts, filters, and scrubbers with no open window to dilute whatever...
Osteoporosis has long been treated as a disease of bone tissue alone, a slow thinning of the skeleton driven by aging, estrogen loss, and an...
Gastric cancer remains one of the world’s deadliest malignancies, ranking fifth among the most commonly diagnosed cancers and accounting for roughly 7.7 percent of all...
A text message program originally designed to treat anxiety appears to deliver an unexpected bonus: relief from depression. In a randomized clinical trial published in...
One of the largest studies ever conducted on the early-life home environment has found that the physical and biological characteristics of a family’s home may...
Agriculture in Egypt is running at barely half of its sustainable potential, according to a new integrated assessment that puts hard numbers on one of...
A province-wide survey of people living with HIV-1 in Jiangxi Province, China, has revealed a dramatic transformation in the landscape of drug resistance following exposure...
Inside a growing tumor, a silent biochemical war is fought not just between cancer cells and immune cells, but across the very surfaces of those...
Antimicrobial resistance has become one of the defining health threats of the twenty-first century, and few organisms embody the problem as completely as Escherichia coli....
Sickle cell disease is the most common inherited blood disorder in France, yet researchers who want to study it using the vast digital archives of...
Osteochondrosis is one of the most common and costly developmental joint disorders in horses, a condition in which the growing skeleton fails to mature properly...
A single, unassuming molecule that rice roots release into the soil may be quietly deciding how much arsenic ends up in the world’s most important...
Nearly two-thirds of gastroenterological surgeons in Japan have experienced workplace harassment, and more than half of those affected have considered abandoning the profession because of...
Researchers at the University of Calicut in Kerala, India, have opened an unusually intimate window onto one of the most technically important conducting polymers in...
