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Drones are quickly becoming the flying workhorses of the wireless world. They relay video from disaster zones, ferry inspection data along power lines, act as...

In the crowded outpatient halls of a tertiary care hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, a quiet crisis is unfolding in the treatment of one of the...

Video has become one of the most demanding data types in modern computer vision. Object detection models that perform impressively on single photographs, from Faster...

A quiet revolution is unfolding in condensed-matter physics, and it is being written in the geometry of triangles. In a study published in Advanced Science,...

One of the most persistent assumptions in oncology is that advanced age itself narrows the door to aggressive cancer treatment. A new retrospective study from...

In societies where children inherit their father’s surname, family names should, in theory, trace the same path through history as the Y chromosome, which is...

In a finding that could reshape how the world farms its shrimp, researchers in Malaysia have mapped, at the level of individual genes, how the...

A protein long dismissed as little more than a biological pantry shelf in the fruit fly has turned out to be one of the most...

Every year, forestry breeders face an uncomfortable paradox: to find out whether a tree has the stiff, high-quality wood that the timber industry demands, they...

Every plant root drags a hidden entourage with it. Bacteria swarm the narrow zone of soil hugging the root surface, the rhizosphere, feeding on sugars...

For millions of people living with chronic urinary retention, the daily reality is a catheter. When the detrusor muscle of the bladder becomes underactive —...

When tissue is starved of oxygen, the body’s first line of rescue is the growth of new blood vessels, a process known as angiogenesis. In...

Every day, the human brain confronts a shifting stream of environmental conditions: changing levels of air pollution, fluctuating noise, variable light, and the constant ebb...

Deep in the mangrove swamps of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, where pelicans and frigatebirds crowd a tiny islet and tourists flock to flamingo-lined lagoons, entomologists have...

Endometriosis affects an estimated 10 percent of women of reproductive age worldwide, causing chronic pelvic pain, inflammation and infertility, yet its underlying biology remains stubbornly...