Tropical mountain forests may be hiding a major biodiversity story several meters below the canopy. A study conducted in China’s Yunkai Mountain National Nature Reserve...
Extreme heat is emerging as one of the most consequential—and least clearly defined—threats to pregnancy. A new systematic review and meta-analysis published in Nature Communications...
A New Journal Aims to Turn the World’s Solid Waste into Tomorrow’s Ecomaterials A new scientific journal is inviting researchers to rethink one of the...
Blood cancer patients who cannot find a closely matched stem cell donor may soon have a broader path to transplantation. New findings from the multicenter...
A new nickel-catalyzed reaction could give chemists a faster and more selective way to transform one of organic chemistry’s most stubborn starting materials: internal alkenes....
Depression is one of the world’s most widespread health conditions, affecting hundreds of millions of people and often returning after an initial recovery. For patients...
Coronary artery disease has long been understood as a problem of obstruction: when a major vessel narrows or becomes blocked, blood can no longer reach...
A drug designed to calm inflammation may leave a measurable signature in the gut, even when it is not being used primarily as an antibiotic....
The world’s fast-growing fleet of electric vehicles and the rapid replacement of smartphones, laptops, and other electronic devices are creating a looming waste challenge: millions...
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has traditionally been described as a disease of motor neurons—the nerve cells that carry signals from the brain and spinal cord...
Exotic Quantum Phase Could Turn Nearly Immobile Fractons Into a New Platform for Information Storage A new computational study has brought physicists closer to identifying...
A review and opinion article in The Lancet has raised the possibility that blood transfusions could, under rare and as-yet unproven circumstances, transmit amyloid-beta pathology...
A new species of groundsnake from the forests of New Guinea has been named after Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, whose birth name is Saul...
Pathology has entered an era in which a single medical image can contain more information than any human can comfortably inspect at once. Whole-slide images,...
Gliomas are among the most difficult cancers to treat, not only because of their location and invasive growth, but also because they develop inside an...
