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Gravity is famously the weakest of the four fundamental forces, and nowhere is that weakness more humbling than at small scales. A millimetre-sized metal ball...

A microscopic bacterium that lives inside the cells of some of the world’s most destructive rice pests may hold the key to controlling them. A...

Severe aplastic anemia is one of the most unforgiving diagnoses in hematology. The bone marrow, the factory that manufactures red blood cells, white blood cells,...

Operating rooms are among the most technologically saturated spaces in medicine, yet many of the devices that surround the surgical table remain tethered to the...

Deep in the forests of northern and northeastern Thailand, a strange little fungus pushes up through the leaf litter each wet season. Astraeus odoratus, known...

Far below the sunlit surface of the ocean, in the dim realm scientists call the twilight zone, an enormous and largely invisible traffic system is...

Micro- and nanoplastics have become one of the most pervasive contaminants of the modern world, and a new narrative review published in Pediatric Research argues...

Farmers have long been told to fertilize for yield, but a new field study from Tamil Nadu, India, argues that the smartest fertilizer prescription is...

Melanoma remains one of the most aggressive human cancers, arising from the pigment-producing melanocytes of the skin and, less commonly, from mucosal membranes and ocular...

Human trafficking remains one of the fastest-growing illicit enterprises on the planet, a grave human rights violation that victimizes millions of people through coercive exploitation...

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...