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Beneath the fallen leaves of China’s shrinking urban forests, an unassuming detritivore is quietly rewriting what scientists know about how soil animals adapt to city...

Cancer survival has improved dramatically over the past few decades, but the treatments that save lives often leave behind a difficult physical legacy. Chemotherapy, radiation...

A child receives a devastating diagnosis of a life-limiting condition, and the first question every parent asks is some version of the same one: how...

Researchers in Maharashtra, India have turned the leaves of a traditional Ayurvedic medicinal tree into a factory for one of nanotechnology’s most versatile materials. In...

Breast cancer is not one disease. Under the microscope, tumors may look similar, but at the molecular level they split into distinct subtypes that respond...

Federated learning has long been pitched as the privacy-friendly way to train artificial intelligence: instead of shipping sensitive data to a central server, the model...

Liver cancer has long been one of oncology’s most stubborn challenges, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) — the dominant primary liver malignancy — has historically resisted...

For decades, researchers probing the chemistry of pregnancy have faced an uncomfortable practical constraint: the fetus is chemically invisible. Drawing blood from an unborn baby...

Every year, tons of ibuprofen slip past wastewater treatment plants and drift into rivers, lakes, and drinking water supplies. The painkiller is one of the...

For decades, a diagnosis of a primary liver tumour in a cat was treated as close to a death sentence. Older veterinary textbooks reported grim...

Why COVID-19 hits older people so much harder has been one of the pandemic’s most stubborn questions, and much of the search for answers has...

Every patient with leukemia carries a molecular story written across multiple layers of data: gene expression, chromatin accessibility, and drug responses measured under dozens of...

A pocket-sized circuit board measuring just 25 by 25 millimeters could change how researchers build wearable health devices. Engineers have unveiled TinZr, a compact, fully...

When plants duplicate their entire genome, the consequences ripple through nearly every aspect of their biology, from the size of their cells to the chemistry...

Scientists in Israel have shown that a computer can help rewire the immune system’s most powerful weapons. In a study published in Science Advances, researchers...