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Respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, remains one of the most consequential pathogens of early childhood and old age, a leading cause of severe lower respiratory...

For more than half a century, agricultural laboratories around the world have relied on a single chemical recipe to decide how much potassium fertilizer a...

When a colon tumor grows large enough to completely block the bowel, surgeons have traditionally faced an unenviable choice: operate immediately in an emergency setting,...

One of the largest real-world investigations of dual diabetes therapy ever conducted has delivered a striking verdict: when Chinese adults with type 2 diabetes took...

A simple change in recipe has produced a striking result in the quest for safer, flexible batteries. Researchers at Maharaja Chhatrasal Bundelkhand University in Chhatarpur,...

A sobering investigation from Bahir Dar, a lakeside city in northern Ethiopia where eating raw beef is a cherished culinary tradition, has found that nearly...

Every student who has ever stared at an online course catalogue, paralyzed by thousands of options, has met the recommender system. These algorithms quietly shape...

Irrigation canals are the hidden circulatory system of global agriculture. Millions of kilometers of human-made channels carry water from rivers, lakes and reservoirs downhill to...

One of the most persistent puzzles in modern cancer immunotherapy may have just lost its most popular explanation. A large retrospective study from The Christie...

A combination treatment for advanced liver cancer appears to do something remarkable inside the tumor itself: it helps build the biological equivalent of lymph nodes,...

Minimally invasive imaging has long faced an uncomfortable trade-off: the deeper a physician needs to look inside the body, the smaller the optical probe must...

Antibiotic resistance is one of the most pressing public health threats of the modern era, and wastewater treatment plants sit squarely on the front line...

Every mammalian brain begins as a modest pool of progenitor cells, yet it ends up containing hundreds of molecularly distinct cell types. How that transformation...

When surgeons remove a kidney tumor, they face a delicate balancing act: cut away the cancer while preserving as much of the healthy organ as...

One of the most common treatments in medicine may work very differently in men and women. When patients arrive at the hospital gasping for breath...