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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...

People living with type 2 diabetes face a two- to four-fold increased risk of cardiovascular disease, yet many of them never fully grasp that their...

A devastating bacterial disease that has wiped out shrimp farms across Asia and the Americas may not be as genetically straightforward as scientists once believed....

Drones are quickly becoming the flying workhorses of the wireless world. They relay video from disaster zones, ferry inspection data along power lines, act as...

In the crowded outpatient halls of a tertiary care hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, a quiet crisis is unfolding in the treatment of one of the...

Video has become one of the most demanding data types in modern computer vision. Object detection models that perform impressively on single photographs, from Faster...

A quiet revolution is unfolding in condensed-matter physics, and it is being written in the geometry of triangles. In a study published in Advanced Science,...

One of the most persistent assumptions in oncology is that advanced age itself narrows the door to aggressive cancer treatment. A new retrospective study from...

In societies where children inherit their father’s surname, family names should, in theory, trace the same path through history as the Y chromosome, which is...