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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...

Every time an animal learns to navigate a familiar environment, its brain quietly rewires itself at the molecular level. A new study published in the...

Chronic pain affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide, and for many of them, implanted devices that stimulate peripheral nerves offer one of the few...

Tartrazine, the synthetic azo dye responsible for the bright yellow hue of countless soft drinks, candies, medicines and cosmetics, has long occupied an uneasy place...

Every pregnant woman on the planet now carries a chemical legacy in her bloodstream: a family of synthetic molecules known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances,...

Iodine is one of those elements that most people encounter only as a grain of salt on the dinner table, yet in the ocean it...

Heavy water, or deuterium oxide, has long fascinated microbiologists. Because water participates in virtually every biochemical reaction, replacing ordinary hydrogen with its heavier isotope, deuterium,...

Cancer does not only grow; it devours. One of the most underappreciated drivers of poor outcomes in oncology is the progressive nutritional collapse that many...

Systemic lupus erythematosus has long baffled researchers with its striking bias: roughly nine in ten patients are women, and the gap is widest during the...

Rockfill materials—the quarried rock masses that form the skeletons of embankment dams, road bases, and other heavy civil engineering structures—have long resisted quick, reliable measurement...