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One of the most stubborn problems in commercial plant tissue culture is a strange disorder that makes shoots look water-soaked, glassy and brittle — a...

One of the most frustrating realities in modern oncology is that treatments which succeed spectacularly in some patients fail completely in others. Neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy, the...

Every occupational therapy encounter rests on an invisible foundation: the therapeutic relationship. What a therapist says, how they listen, and the way they structure a...

For nearly three decades, researchers studying how gases move through coal have been locked in a stubborn disagreement. Some laboratory studies reported that the apparent...

Microbiologists have long known that the humble agar plate photograph is only as good as the lighting behind it. A new proof-of-concept study published in...

A century ago, the Czech writer Karel Čapek gave the world the word “robot” in his play R.U.R., imagining artificial beings that obeyed commands spoken...

Waterlogging is quietly emerging as one of the most underestimated threats to agriculture in Ethiopia, and a new study published in npj Sustainable Agriculture offers...

Women living with macromastia, the medical term for enlarged breast tissue, may face a substantially higher risk of several disabling neurological and sleep-related conditions, according...

A large share of Japanese patients living with type 2 diabetes are older adults who are not obese, a population that has been largely invisible...

In the heart of North Kordofan, a lone mountain massif rises abruptly from the semi-arid savanna plains of western Sudan, sheltering an extraordinary concentration of...

One of the most familiar ideas in materials science is that big particles grow while small ones shrink. This process, known as Ostwald ripening or...

Rice feeds more than half the world’s population, and in Tanzania it has quietly become the second most important food and cash crop after maize....

Diagnosing cancer in a horse has never been easy. Skin tumors such as sarcoids, squamous cell carcinomas and melanomas can often be recognized from their...

A routine blood test that nearly every pregnant woman receives may carry far more psychological information than clinicians currently extract from it. New research from...

The hunt for the materials that will power a decarbonised world has always been a slow, grinding business. Whether researchers are chasing better photocatalysts for...