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More than a century after physicians first noticed that bacterial infections could sometimes shrink tumors, a new synthesis argues that the idea deserves a second...

The feral pigeon is one of the most familiar animals on Earth, a bird that thrives in the concrete heart of nearly every major city....

Internet of Things systems generate torrents of sensor data every second, yet turning that raw stream into genuinely good decisions remains one of the hardest...

Thai basil is best known for lending its anise-like aroma to street food across Southeast Asia, but a new study suggests the herb’s essential oil...

When a brain tumor comes back after radiation therapy, patients and their doctors face one of the most difficult dilemmas in neuro-oncology: how to attack...

As more people delay childbearing into their late thirties and forties, the biology of the aging uterus has moved from a niche interest to a...

A team of environmental health researchers has uncovered fresh evidence that chemicals routinely encountered during pregnancy—from combustion byproducts in polluted air to plasticizers in food...

Saliency maps have become the public face of artificial intelligence transparency. When a convolutional neural network declares that a photograph contains a tiger shark, a...

Rice is the staple food for billions of people, yet breeding varieties that perform reliably across wildly different landscapes remains one of agriculture’s stubborn challenges....

A diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer changes everything about a person’s life, and one of the least discussed consequences is what happens at work. Roughly...

Determining whether a patient with severe brain injury is conscious is one of the most consequential and difficult tasks in medicine. In the neurocritical care...

Deep in the Tocantins River, near the city of Imperatriz in the Brazilian state of Maranhão, two small silver fish are quietly telling scientists a...

For nearly a century, metallurgists have explained the earliest stages of alloy decomposition with two familiar stories: atoms slowly nucleating into new phases, or a...

Professor Rajeev Varshney, the Director of Murdoch University’s Centre for Crop and Food Innovation and the WA State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, has been elected as...

The human heart never beats with metronomic precision. Between every two beats, tiny fluctuations in timing—measured in milliseconds—reveal a constant negotiation between the sympathetic nervous...