For two decades, the world of two-dimensional materials has been dominated by substances that naturally flake apart into atomically thin sheets: graphite, molybdenum disulfide, and...
For decades, doctors have judged blood pressure risk by a single, deceptively simple number: the average. But a sweeping new study drawing on nearly 190,000...
A quiet revolution is unfolding at the scale of a human hair. In work highlighted in a News and Views piece by Wenqi Hu of...
Every heartbeat is a conversation between chemistry and mechanics, and it happens in a moving stream of blood. When a drug enters the circulation, it...
America’s most influential nutrition document has just been handed an uncomfortable climate report card. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the federal blueprint that shapes school...
Soil salinization has long been recognized as one of the most stubborn threats to global agriculture, but a new analysis in Nature Food argues that...
Chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, remain among the world’s most persistent killers. In the European region alone,...
Boron has long been one of the most stubborn elements on the periodic table. It is light, abundant, and chemically versatile, yet for decades the...
Cardiovascular disease kills roughly 17.9 million people every year, accounting for about 32 percent of all deaths worldwide, and the World Health Organization projects that...
Generative artificial intelligence has become remarkably good at dreaming up molecules. Feed a model a protein pocket or a desired property profile, and it will...
Engineers have long dreamed of millimetre-wave signals so pure that their timing never wavers by more than a few quintillionths of a second. That dream...
A single thread that can glow, compute, sense a hand moving through the air, and survive a trip through the washing machine sounds like science...
More than four years after the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic ended, one of the most persistent questions in public health is how much...
Few discoveries in modern condensed matter physics have energized the community quite like the rise of the nickelate superconductors. Since the first reports of superconductivity...
Textiles have accompanied humanity for thousands of years, but the fibres that make up our clothing have remained, for the most part, electrically passive. A...
