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Neurologists have long known that a single, strategically placed patch of myelin loss can slowly rob a person of the ability to walk. Most of...

A team of researchers in Algeria and Tunisia has reported that leaf extracts from two familiar Mediterranean medicinal plants, Ruta chalepensis, commonly known as fringed...

Plastic waste has become one of the defining environmental challenges of the modern era, and few polymers illustrate the problem better than low-density polyethylene, the...

For people living with spinal cord injury, one of the most consequential questions after trauma is deceptively simple: what can the body still feel? Clinicians...

Chemists in China have unveiled a cobalt-based porous carbon catalyst that converts a biomass-derived molecule into a key plastic precursor with remarkable efficiency, achieving complete...

One of the most widely used and life-saving chemotherapy drugs in the world carries a hidden cost: it can push the heart into a premature...

A humble variety of rice grown on the borderlands of Nepal and India has become the unlikely star of a pharmaceutical engineering study that could...

Scientists have unveiled a new artificial intelligence–derived blood test that distills the molecular noise of cellular aging into a single number, one that appears to...

Quantum computers promise to solve problems that stump even the most powerful supercomputers, but the machines themselves are stubbornly imperfect. The mathematical models engineers use...

A sweeping 26-year analysis of India’s two most important commercial crops has revealed a striking divergence in what actually drives farm incomes, with seed technology...

The Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Cancer has retracted a 2019 paper that claimed a circular RNA called circNRIP1 acts as a molecular sponge for microRNA-149-5p, driving...

Aging has long been framed as an unavoidable slide toward cellular decay, but a comprehensive new review published in GeroScience argues that one of its...

Green nanotechnology has become one of the most fashionable corners of plant science, promising fertilizers, pesticides, and stress-protective agents built from nothing more exotic than...

Bone marrow edema, the painful fluid-like signal that lights up fluid-sensitive MRI sequences inside bone, has long been treated as a radiological curiosity rather than...

Every cell in a developing tissue faces a decision. In the embryonic skin of the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, multipotent progenitors must choose among...