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Deep in the mountain fynbos of South Africa, a frog smaller than a fingernail is quietly rewriting what scientists thought they knew about how vertebrates...

Rare diseases are defined individually by their scarcity, but collectively they represent one of the largest burdens of unmet medical need in modern medicine. An...

A single pollutant, swallowed by a pregnant mother in doses that would not raise eyebrows at a seafood counter, may be enough to bend the...

Fiscal policy has long been a blunt instrument in the hands of governments, but a growing body of research suggests it may be one of...

A team of statisticians and geneticists has unveiled a powerful new computational method that promises to untangle one of the most stubborn puzzles in modern...

Methadone remains one of the most effective medications available for opioid use disorder, yet in the United States it is locked behind a regulatory architecture...

Across the planet, more than a billion hectares of farmland are quietly being poisoned by salt. As irrigation water evaporates and rising seas push saline...

The algorithms that decide who gets a credit card, a mortgage, or a business loan are among the most consequential machine learning systems in the...

One of the most stubborn puzzles in cancer immunotherapy may have just cracked open. In a study published in Advanced Science, researchers report the construction...

Deep beneath the skin of hundreds of thousands of children worldwide, a slender silicone tube quietly performs one of medicine’s most vital tasks: draining excess...

A liposome is, in the textbook picture, a deceptively simple object: a hollow sphere of phospholipid bilayer that can carry a cargo of drugs through...

Perovskite solar cells have spent a decade shattering efficiency records, but their Achilles heel has always been chemistry at the atomic scale. Tiny charged imperfections,...

When a patient is admitted to an intensive care unit with severe meningitis or encephalitis, clinicians face two distinct and often competing threats. The first...

Large language models are being welcomed into hospitals at a pace that has outstripped nearly every safety discipline in modern medicine. They draft discharge summaries,...

A quiet revolution is sweeping through Sweden’s primary care clinics, driven by a national reform known as the Transition to Integrated and Person-Centred Care, or...