A review of 78 international studies is challenging some of the most persistent beliefs about breastfeeding during the first days after birth, arguing that routine...
Biodiversity data are accumulating at an extraordinary rate, yet the information needed to understand ecological change often remains fragmented, inconsistent, and difficult to convert into...
Influenza transmission within households is shaped by far more than whether one person becomes infected, according to a study by M.K. Sauter, J. Kleynhans, J....
Alveolar capillary dysplasia is one of medicine’s most devastating diagnostic puzzles: newborns appear to have lungs, but their microscopic architecture prevents those lungs from performing...
Pancreatic cancer may be one of the most difficult cancers to treat, but new research points to a microscopic event inside damaged cells that could...
China’s transition toward a sustainable food system will depend less on isolated technological breakthroughs than on whether the country can align policies that currently pursue...
Ketamine has long been known as a powerful anesthetic, but its influence on the brain extends far beyond the operating room. Doctors also use low...
Johns Hopkins researchers have validated an artificial intelligence-powered blood test that detected liver cancer in patients from two geographically and biologically distinct populations, while also...
Chinese scientists have identified an exceptionally rare isotope, hafnium-153, during the commissioning phase of the High Intensity heavy-ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) in Huizhou, Guangdong Province....
Protein-fortified foods are rapidly moving from specialist nutrition products into the mainstream, appearing in cereals, coffee drinks, snack bars and even bottled water. But a...
Fluoride is usually discussed in the context of toothpaste, drinking water, or industrial pollution. At the cellular level, however, it is a potent toxin. The...
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, or IPF, is a relentlessly progressive lung disease in which healthy tissue is gradually replaced by stiff, scar-like material. As fibrosis advances,...
A bedside technology that maps how air, fluid and blood move through the lungs may be poised to become a more important tool in pediatric...
Agriculture may be entering a new era in which crops are judged not only by how much food they produce, but by how many ecological...
The cloud is not floating in some distant wilderness. It is taking shape alongside highways, neighborhoods, power corridors and former industrial sites in and around...
