Ménière’s disease, a disabling inner-ear disorder marked by recurrent vertigo, fluctuating hearing loss, tinnitus, and a sensation of pressure or fullness, may be driven by...
The human brain may owe its extraordinary expansion not only to meat and other animal foods, but also to the sweetness of fruit, honey and...
Software developers have long faced a frustrating paradox: the programs that must be made faster are often too complex to optimize by hand. Compilers, hardware-design...
For women living with metastatic breast cancer, a smartphone app may offer more than convenience: it can function as a weekly clinical safety net. A...
Fibrous membranes could soon become far more effective at collecting water from fog, separating oil from water, and moving moisture through advanced textiles, thanks to...
Osteoarthritis is often described as a disease of worn-out cartilage, but a new review argues that the condition is better understood as a disorder of...
A new study is challenging one of the most persistent assumptions about the evolution of the primate brain: that our lineage became exceptionally intelligent primarily...
Close your eyes and listen. Beneath the obvious sounds of conversation, traffic, machinery, and music, the modern environment is filled with a largely invisible acoustic...
Gastric cancer remains one of the world’s most lethal malignancies, and its treatment is increasingly threatened by resistance to cisplatin, a cornerstone chemotherapy drug. Although...
Supercontinuum light sources are often described as “white lasers” because they produce an extraordinarily broad, continuous spectrum containing many colors at once. Unlike ordinary lasers,...
A national study of more than 24,000 adults hospitalized after firearm injuries has found that approximately 5 percent developed a bacterial infection, with most cases...
RIKEN researchers in Japan have uncovered an unexpected way that fruit-fly gut cells respond to nutrition: they appear to sense how “full” they are by...
Methane emissions across Siberia have more than doubled in just over a decade, according to a new study published in Science. The research, based on...
Oklahoma researchers have received a five-year, $2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to investigate how pancreatic cancer alters its use of cholesterol to...
Scientists have observed a form of organization in matter that looks less like a conventional crystal and more like an intricate woven textile. In a...
