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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...

A targeted radioactive drug has moved closer to the front line of metastatic prostate cancer treatment, after a large international phase 3 trial found that...

A molecular switch hidden in RNA is emerging as a crucial link between environmental pollution, brain development and neurodegenerative disease, according to a new review...

Rice University engineers have developed a charge-based method for controlling how therapeutic peptides are released from gelatin microparticles, potentially addressing one of the most persistent...

Kyoto, Japan — Scientists at Kyoto University have identified germline abnormalities in the genes SLF2 and SMC5 as the cause of a previously unrecognized inherited...

Neural activity unfolds in three dimensions and at extraordinary speed. Electrical signals can travel through brain circuits on millisecond-to-microsecond timescales, while an awake animal is...

Winston-Salem, N.C., August 6, 2026 — A new artificial intelligence system developed by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine could help clinicians detect...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a platform that could transform the way researchers engineer microbes for biotechnology....