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For decades, roboticists have imagined machines that could be dropped into places too dangerous, remote or unpredictable for conventional vehicles. Now, a new tensegrity robot...

Menopause is emerging as a major, overlooked factor in brain health, yet science still knows surprisingly little about how the menopausal transition affects the nervous...

Oxidative stress lies at the center of many difficult biomedical problems, from inflammation and neurodegeneration to cardiovascular disease and tissue injury. As cells generate excessive...

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have evolved a strain of the bacterium Pseudomonas putida that can consume three major sugars found in...

Ewing sarcoma, an aggressive cancer that predominantly affects children and adolescents, has long challenged researchers because of its ability to grow rapidly, spread to distant...

A New Spin on Lithium–Sulfur Batteries Could Make Them Faster, More Stable, and More Powerful Lithium–sulfur batteries have long been regarded as one of the...

Nirsevimab, a long-acting monoclonal antibody designed to protect infants from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), was associated with a substantial reduction in hospitalizations caused by RSV-related...

Endometriosis may be linked to a substantially higher risk of type 2 diabetes, according to the largest study yet to investigate how the chronic gynecological...

Scientists have discovered an unusual electronic state in the two-dimensional magnetic material Fe₅GeTe₂, where large groups of electrons move collectively at exceptionally low effective speeds...

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center and Eli Lilly and Company have launched a two-year partnership aimed at expanding patient access to cancer...

Physicists at TU Dortmund University have shown that continuous time crystals can synchronize with one another across surprisingly large distances inside a semiconductor. The finding,...

Baylor College of Medicine has launched a new research center dedicated to solving one of transplantation medicine’s most persistent problems: the shortage of human organs....

Koi herpesvirus, also known as cyprinid herpesvirus 3 (CyHV-3), is one of the most destructive viral pathogens in freshwater aquaculture. It can move rapidly through...

Fever is widely recognized as a powerful defense against infection. Across the animal kingdom, many species raise their body temperature to slow pathogens or improve...

Proteins are often portrayed as elegant molecular machines with a single, well-defined structure. In reality, many proteins constantly shift among several conformations, flickering between shapes...