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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, has quietly become one of the deadliest conditions on the planet, now ranking as the third leading cause of...

Millions of people taking GLP-1 receptor agonists for type 2 diabetes and obesity have grown accustomed to hearing about the drugs’ wide-ranging side effects, from...

Every day, hundreds of millions of people scroll through short videos on content-driven e-commerce platforms, watching clips that blend entertainment with product demonstrations in a...

Palm oil is everywhere. It sizzles in frying pans, hides in processed foods, thickens cosmetics and fuels engines, and no other vegetable oil crop comes...

Radiotherapy has long been one of the most dependable weapons in the oncologist’s arsenal, delivering precisely targeted doses of ionizing radiation to destroy malignant cells...

For millions of people living with obesity, the two most powerful tools for protecting the heart have long competed in separate corners: the operating theatre...

For decades, plant breeders have chased a dream that sounds almost too good to be true: the ability to bottle the extraordinary productivity of hybrid...

Every year, the world’s cities chew through staggering quantities of concrete, and every year they spit out a mountain of rubble in return. In China...

When the ocean creeps inland and salt poisons farmland, most plants shrivel and die. Mangroves, however, stand rooted in seawater twice a day, flourishing where...

Ovarian cancer remains the deadliest of all gynecological malignancies, and the numbers behind that grim distinction explain why a new clinical guideline from China has...

An international team of researchers has assembled one of the largest single-cell genetic atlases ever built, profiling more than ten million immune cells from 1,108...

Plastics that mend their own cracks have long been a dream of materials science, but most self-healing polymers still depend heavily on petroleum-based chemistry. A...

Every gene in the human genome carries a hidden layer of instructions that determines which parts of its RNA message are kept and which are...

Magnetic resonance imaging has long depended on a small family of gadolinium-based contrast agents to light up blood vessels, organs, and tumors, but the workhorse...

Bambara groundnut, a humble underground legume that has sustained communities across sub-Saharan Africa for centuries, is quietly emerging as one of the most promising weapons...