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Fungi are quietly winning a war that most people never see. They destroy between 10 and 23 percent of crops before harvest and another 10...

Wearable electronics have long been haunted by an awkward compromise. Materials that stretch like rubber tend to conduct ions poorly, while materials that shuttle ions...

Every year, Japan culls well over a million wild sika deer and wild boar to protect farmland and forests, yet only around twelve percent of...

Ovarian cancer remains one of the most lethal gynecologic malignancies, and a new laboratory study suggests that an unexpected ally may be hiding in one...

A rigorous randomised trial presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes in Milan and published in The Lancet...

Starch is one of the most abundant energy sources in the human diet, but it carries a stubborn flaw: once gelatinized and stored, it stiffens....

Wood is one of the most abundant materials on Earth, and it is also one of the most stubborn. Its lignocellulosic structure evolved hundreds of...

Industrial robots have become the workhorses of modern manufacturing, assembling electronics, sorting packages, palletizing goods and moving materials through warehouses at speeds no human crew...

Beneath the turquoise shallows off Mjimwema, south of Dar es Salaam, the serrated blades of the seagrass Oceana serrulata sway with the tide. To most...

In a finding that upends expectations about a widely used cancer drug, researchers in South Korea have discovered that lapatinib, an approved targeted therapy for...

Maize is the world’s most important cereal by sheer tonnage, feeding billions of people, livestock and biorefineries alike. Yet every kernel carries an internal compromise...

Anemia linked to chronic kidney disease remains one of the most stubborn complications in modern medicine, quietly eroding quality of life and raising cardiovascular risk...

A group of researchers writing in The BMJ has issued a pointed challenge to one of the fastest-growing corners of the consumer health technology industry,...

Across the windswept sandlands of northern China, where scattered trees rise from a sea of grass, ecologists have long struggled with a deceptively simple question:...

What older adults do in their free time may matter far more than how much free time they have. A new analysis of more than...