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Insulin resistance sits at the root of some of the most burdensome diseases of modern life, including type 2 diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, obesity,...

What makes a territory a good place to live? For decades, planners and policymakers have leaned on numbers: unemployment rates, service counts, composite indices of...

Every rice harvest begins with a microscopic event that most people never think about: the moment a dry, seemingly inert seed decides to wake up....

When a mother in Oman hears the words “breast cancer,” her first thought is often not about herself but about who to tell, when to...

A decade-long analysis of health records from millions of US veterans has found that state cannabis legalization is associated with small but measurable shifts in...

Deep inside the human nose, a gene best known for detecting bitter compounds in food is quietly helping the airways fight bacteria. That gene, TAS2R38,...

Every time a streaming service suggests a film, an online shop pushes a product, or a news feed surfaces a story, an invisible algorithm is...

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has delivered dramatic remissions in blood cancers, but solid tumors have proven far more stubborn adversaries. One of the...

Hearing tests produce some of medicine’s most deceptively simple images. An audiogram is a grid of symbols marking the faintest sounds a patient can detect...

A chemical mark long known to fine-tune plant growth and development has turned out to play a far more dramatic role in agriculture than previously...

Short video platforms have become one of the most data-hungry services on the modern internet, with billions of clips swiped through every day on apps...

Wheat is the quiet workhorse of the global food system, supplying more than twenty percent of the calories and protein that humanity consumes. Yet one...

Behind every bedridden or disabled patient in China’s homes stands an unpaid, largely untrained caregiver — and a new study suggests that more than half...

Single-cell biology has long promised a movie of development but delivered only still frames. RNA velocity, first introduced in 2018, brought the field closer to...

Artificial intelligence has moved from laboratory curiosity to critical infrastructure at astonishing speed. It approves loans, screens medical images, steers autonomous vehicles, and moderates the...