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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...

High in the Peruvian Andes, where the thin atmosphere lets ultraviolet radiation slam into the skin with unusual force, a simple classroom experiment has delivered...

For decades, the dream of projecting a fully three-dimensional image into empty space has been constrained by an inconvenient truth of physics: light refuses to...

In the natural world, organisms and their environments are locked in a constant conversation. Termites build nests that alter airflow and humidity, which in turn...

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...