Microbial communities may be carrying a hidden record of the temperatures and nutrient conditions in the environments where they live. A new study published in...
A molecule embedded in the energy-hungry tubules of the kidney may hold an important clue to why acute kidney injury can escalate so quickly. In...
Cities around the world are planting trees at an unprecedented pace, yet many continue to grow hotter. Expanding urban canopies can provide shade, store carbon...
Parkinson’s disease has long been described through a familiar biological storyline: abnormal accumulation of alpha-synuclein, progressive loss of dopamine-producing neurons in the substantia nigra, and...
Large language models may soon be able to update what they know without undergoing expensive, full-scale retraining, but a new Perspective argues that current “knowledge...
A new cell-encapsulation strategy inspired by the protective coat surrounding mammalian eggs has enabled transplanted pancreatic islets to function for more than 100 days in...
A new retraction notice in the British Journal of Cancer has withdrawn a previously published report that described antitumour activity from a recombinant polypeptide called...
Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) are exploring an unusual biological strategy to reduce the danger posed by lead exposure: using harmless bacteria inside tiny...
Iron is indispensable to life, but inside a cell it can become a chemical hazard. The metal helps mitochondria produce energy, enables hemoglobin to carry...
Long before a sunspot darkens the Sun’s visible surface, the magnetic forces that create it may already be leaving a faint trail beneath the surface....
Researchers at Swansea University have led a major European investigation into how poverty and social disadvantage influence survival among children born with major congenital anomalies....
The University of Tennessee Herbert College of Agriculture has launched a new Bachelor of Science in Bioinformatics, creating what the university describes as the first...
A new study is turning structural safety into a problem that artificial intelligence can understand without losing sight of the laws of physics. Researchers G....
A new study from Brazil’s sprawling Metropolitan Region of São Paulo has revealed how dramatically urban expansion can reshape the living architecture of tropical streams....
MIT engineers have developed a microscope that can record electrical activity from neurons distributed across the entire brain of a living organism at millisecond-scale speeds....
