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Fresh beef sold online often travels a surprisingly rough road. In the booming world of e-commerce, steaks are typically shipped in expanded polystyrene boxes packed...

Cancer cells are famously difficult to kill, and much of modern oncology has been built on the assumption that apoptosis—the tidy, silent self-destruction of cells—is...

Infants born with gastroschisis face one of the most visually striking and clinically demanding challenges in neonatal medicine. In this congenital abdominal wall defect, the...

Deep in northeastern Brazil, one of the world’s most overlooked biomes may hold the key to replacing a family of controversial synthetic food additives. Scientists...

Recombinant protein production underpins much of modern biotechnology, from therapeutic enzymes and monoclonal antibodies to industrial enzymes used in food and cosmetics. Yet coaxing a...

Soft robots have long promised the kind of adaptable, muscle-like movement that rigid machines cannot match, but most of them can only ever walk, grip,...

Sleep is one of the most undervalued vital signs in medicine, and a new study suggests that for adolescents and young adults diagnosed with cancer,...

A groundbreaking life cycle assessment of 90 commonly consumed Indonesian foods has revealed staggering differences in how efficiently the country’s staples deliver nutrition relative to...

In the humid forests of Mexico, a metallic blue-green dung beetle engages in a form of parental devotion that is rare among insects. The subsocial...

The explosive growth of smartphone-based location data has transformed how scientists study human mobility, how cities plan transportation networks, and how public health officials track...

Non-small cell lung cancer remains the deadliest malignancy worldwide, claiming more lives each year than any other form of the disease, and much of that...

Forensic scientists in South Africa have shown for the first time that the skulls of children carry measurable, population-specific signals that can be used to...

Physicists at the University at Buffalo have produced a mathematical solution to one of the most striking puzzles in modern quantum physics: how matter can...

A new study has uncovered the molecular machinery that allows the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum to sense hostile conditions in human blood and convert itself...

Engineers and computer scientists face a familiar dilemma when designing almost anything complex: improving one objective often means sacrificing another. A faster aircraft engine may...