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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...

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...