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In a striking illustration of how far the reach of inflammatory bowel disease can extend beyond the gut, clinicians have documented a case of organising...

Deep inside every modern jet engine, turbine blades spin in gas streams hotter than the melting point of the superalloys they are made from. The...

In the densely populated highlands of eastern Ethiopia, smallholder farmers are watching their climate change in real time, and most of them are responding without...

Solving a plane geometry problem is deceptively hard for a machine. A human student glances at a diagram, reads a few sentences of text, notices...

A mature soybean plant is, to a computer vision system, one of the most confusing objects in agriculture. Stems wind around stems, pods crowd into...

Basal cell carcinoma is the most common form of skin cancer worldwide, and for most patients it is highly treatable when caught early. Yet the...

Invasive aspergillosis has long been understood as a menace confined to the profoundly immunosuppressed: patients battling leukaemia, enduring months of neutropenia, or recovering from solid...

Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and prion disorders are among the most formidable challenges in modern medicine, largely because the damage they...

Human herpesviruses are among the most persistent pathogens in medicine, establishing lifelong infections that alternate between long periods of latency and episodes of productive replication...

Artificial intelligence has become remarkably good at reading the streams of numbers that modern sensors produce, but it has remained stubbornly bad at telling us...

Deep beneath the soybean fields now spreading across the Brazilian state of Piauí lies a soil whose story has long been told incorrectly. A new...

Treatment resistance remains one of the most stubborn obstacles in modern oncology, and a comprehensive new review published in the journal Molecular Cancer argues that...

Surgeons in Japan have reported a striking case of a 61-year-old man who survived emergency mitral valve replacement after acute severe mitral regurgitation drove him...

Amphotericin B has long been regarded as one of the most powerful antifungal agents in clinical medicine, a drug of last resort for life-threatening invasive...

Every leaf faces a dilemma. The microscopic pores called stomata that dot the plant epidermis are simultaneously the gateways for carbon dioxide intake and the...