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Low-calorie sweeteners have long been marketed as a healthier alternative to sugar, but a sweeping new laboratory study suggests their effects on the human gut...

Social networks have become the connective tissue of modern life, carrying everything from casual conversation to commerce, journalism, and political organization. Yet the same connectivity...

Intensive care units are among the most demanding environments in modern medicine, staffed around the clock by nurses who manage ventilators, vasoactive infusions and some...

Every year, India generates roughly eight million tonnes of floral waste, much of it marigold garlands discarded after religious ceremonies, weddings and festivals. These spent...

A long-term study in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest has revealed that sustainable farms may be doing far more than producing food and restoring trees: they are...

Aluminum has long promised architects a tempting bargain: structures that resist corrosion, never need painting, and weigh a fraction of their steel equivalents. The catch...

A newly published review in the journal Molecular Cancer has brought renewed attention to a molecule that most people outside immunology have never heard of,...

A protein that has become one of the most celebrated blood tests in Alzheimer’s disease research is now forcing neuroscientists to rethink what it means...

In a series of meticulous feeding trials that could reshape how an endangered Indian fish is farmed, researchers have pinned down, with remarkable precision, exactly...

Integrated photonics has quietly become one of the most consequential technologies of the modern era, carrying the data that flow through data centers, enabling LiDAR...

High on the dry, sun-scorched slopes of the northwestern Himalayas grows one of the region’s most valuable and most vulnerable trees: Pinus gerardiana, the Chilgoza...

Endometrial adenocarcinoma, one of the most prevalent malignancies of the female reproductive tract, has long been studied through the lens of hormonal and genetic risk...

Bronchopulmonary dysplasia, the chronic lung disease of prematurity, remains one of the most consequential complications facing infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit. As...

The establishment of new populations from small groups of founders is one of the most common scenarios in modern conservation biology, yet it remains one...

Dust is an invisible adversary for the power electronics that drive modern rail transit. Inside the traction converters that propel electric trains, forced-air cooling systems...