America’s most influential nutrition document has just been handed an uncomfortable climate report card. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the federal blueprint that shapes school...
Soil salinization has long been recognized as one of the most stubborn threats to global agriculture, but a new analysis in Nature Food argues that...
Chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, remain among the world’s most persistent killers. In the European region alone,...
Boron has long been one of the most stubborn elements on the periodic table. It is light, abundant, and chemically versatile, yet for decades the...
Cardiovascular disease kills roughly 17.9 million people every year, accounting for about 32 percent of all deaths worldwide, and the World Health Organization projects that...
Generative artificial intelligence has become remarkably good at dreaming up molecules. Feed a model a protein pocket or a desired property profile, and it will...
Engineers have long dreamed of millimetre-wave signals so pure that their timing never wavers by more than a few quintillionths of a second. That dream...
A single thread that can glow, compute, sense a hand moving through the air, and survive a trip through the washing machine sounds like science...
More than four years after the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic ended, one of the most persistent questions in public health is how much...
Few discoveries in modern condensed matter physics have energized the community quite like the rise of the nickelate superconductors. Since the first reports of superconductivity...
Textiles have accompanied humanity for thousands of years, but the fibres that make up our clothing have remained, for the most part, electrically passive. A...
Colorectal cancer remains one of the deadliest and most frequently diagnosed gastrointestinal malignancies in the world, and clinicians have long struggled with a frustrating gap:...
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...
