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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...

Why do some individuals solve problems with ease while others struggle, even within the same species and population? This question sits at the heart of...

One of chemotherapy’s oldest weapons, the fluoropyrimidine family that anchors first-line treatment for colorectal cancer, has just been handed a surprising new ally: a naturally...

When a loved one suffers a spontaneous brain hemorrhage, one of the hardest questions families face is deceptively simple: will they recover? In the anxious...

Water pollution has become one of the defining environmental crises of the modern era, and a comprehensive new review published in the journal Blue Biotechnology...