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A tiny African fish that races through its entire life in a matter of months has given scientists one of the clearest biochemical portraits of...

Every year, the global food industry peels, trims, and slices billions of onions, discarding tons of papery outer skin that most consumers never think twice...

For more than a decade, chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing, better known as ChIP-seq, has been the workhorse method for locating where transcription factors bind...

When a newborn baby’s life hangs in the balance and every second of circulatory collapse counts, clinicians face one of the most unforgiving technical challenges...

Surgery remains the cornerstone of curative cancer treatment, yet a growing body of research suggests that the operation itself may briefly tip the balance in...

A new study from two tertiary hospitals in Central Ethiopia is challenging long-held assumptions about which malaria parasite deserves the most clinical attention. For decades,...

Low-calorie sweeteners have long been marketed as a healthier alternative to sugar, but a sweeping new laboratory study suggests their effects on the human gut...

Social networks have become the connective tissue of modern life, carrying everything from casual conversation to commerce, journalism, and political organization. Yet the same connectivity...

Intensive care units are among the most demanding environments in modern medicine, staffed around the clock by nurses who manage ventilators, vasoactive infusions and some...

Every year, India generates roughly eight million tonnes of floral waste, much of it marigold garlands discarded after religious ceremonies, weddings and festivals. These spent...

A long-term study in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest has revealed that sustainable farms may be doing far more than producing food and restoring trees: they are...

Aluminum has long promised architects a tempting bargain: structures that resist corrosion, never need painting, and weigh a fraction of their steel equivalents. The catch...

A newly published review in the journal Molecular Cancer has brought renewed attention to a molecule that most people outside immunology have never heard of,...

A protein that has become one of the most celebrated blood tests in Alzheimer’s disease research is now forcing neuroscientists to rethink what it means...

In a series of meticulous feeding trials that could reshape how an endangered Indian fish is farmed, researchers have pinned down, with remarkable precision, exactly...