Three decades after France banned one of the most persistent insecticides ever deployed in the Caribbean, the chemical is still circulating through the food webs...
Lignin, the rigid aromatic polymer that gives wood its strength and lets trees stand tall against gravity, has long been the stubborn leftover of the...
Hydrogen has long been heralded as the clean fuel of the future, but producing it without fossil fuels remains one of the great engineering challenges...
The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture has confirmed a leadership transition at one of its most historically significant research facilities, appointing Jason Williams as...
Mesothelioma has long been one of oncology’s most stubborn adversaries, an aggressive cancer of the lining of the chest and abdomen driven overwhelmingly by asbestos...
Millions of people living with HIV now take antiretroviral therapy that suppresses the virus to undetectable levels, transforming what was once a fatal infection into...
Carbon monoxide occupies a peculiar position in the human imagination. It is the silent killer, the odorless gas that seeps from faulty furnaces and exhaust...
In a finding that could reshape how scientists think about the hormones behind hair growth, researchers in China have shown that dihydrotestosterone (DHT), the androgen...
More than a century ago, the French physicist Louis Georges Gouy noticed something strange about focused light. When a spherical wave passes through its focal...
A cucumber is not always green. As the fruit matures, the peel of some varieties shifts to a striking yellow, while others stay white or...
Metaplastic breast cancer is one of the rarest and most feared subtypes of breast malignancy, accounting for only a small fraction of all diagnoses yet...
At the 18-month well-child visit, pediatricians are supposed to do something remarkably difficult: detect, in a few minutes of observation, whether a toddler’s social and...
A team of pharmaceutical scientists in India has unveiled a new analytical method for measuring the antifungal drug itraconazole that is not only highly accurate...
A wild medicinal plant from the mountains of western Iran has put a new spin on one of poultry science’s most persistent quests: finding a...
For more than six decades, the neodymium-doped yttrium aluminium garnet laser — known to nearly every physicist and engineer simply as Nd:YAG — has been...
