Postoperative endophthalmitis, a rare but potentially devastating infection inside the eye, fell by 64.4% after a hospital introduced a comprehensive surgical safety culture program, according...
Floral fragrance is often treated as a charming but superficial feature of ornamental plants. In reality, scent is a complex biological signal that can attract...
Astrocytes, the star-shaped cells that support and nourish neurons, may possess a far greater capacity for self-repair than scientists once believed. In a study published...
A quiet warning is emerging from the expanding edges of China’s cities. In the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei urban agglomeration, landscapes undergoing the shift from countryside to city...
Parkinson’s disease is often described as a disorder of movement, but a new study highlights a biological difference that may be impossible to ignore: the...
Drug self-administration has long been regarded as one of the most informative laboratory approaches for studying substance use disorder. Unlike experiments in which animals passively...
Food systems are failing to move fast enough on the goals that matter most for human health, environmental stability and social wellbeing, according to a...
Florida Atlantic University–developed video-compression technology has been acquired by Dolby Laboratories, placing research from the university at the center of a global race to deliver...
Gastric cancer may be exploiting a little-known metabolic molecule to disable the immune system, according to research from Keio University in Japan. The molecule, D-serine,...
A University of Waterloo research team is using artificial intelligence, data science and advanced mathematics to reveal how fires evolve inside modern homes—an effort that...
Water scarcity is entering a more dangerous phase—one in which the problem is no longer defined simply by how much water exists, but by whether...
Data centers are often portrayed as invisible engines of the digital economy, powering artificial intelligence, cloud computing, streaming platforms and billions of daily online interactions....
Triple-negative breast cancer has long presented one of oncology’s most difficult challenges: it lacks the three molecular markers—estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor and HER2—that guide many...
Parkinson’s disease is widely recognized for its tremor, slowed movement and muscle rigidity, but a new study is drawing attention to another dimension of the...
A newly built bypass highway in eastern France has failed to produce an immediate genetic divide in populations of the southern damselfly, an endangered wetland...
