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A large study of children using melatonin has found that the supplement was associated with a small reduction in the proportion of rapid eye movement,...

Wildfire smoke has become an increasingly important source of prenatal air pollution in the United States, even as overall exposure to fine particulate matter has...

A genetic switch that determines whether butterfly lily flowers develop as mirror-image left- or right-handed forms has been identified for the first time, solving a...

Herpes zoster, commonly known as shingles, is being targeted by a new vaccine candidate in a large phase 3 clinical trial published in Nature Communications....

SARS-CoV-2 vaccine research is moving beyond the traditional injection-based approach, with scientists examining whether immunity can be established directly at the surfaces where respiratory viruses...

Scientists have reconstructed the most complete diploid human genome yet produced, creating a high-resolution sequence that contains both copies of every chromosome inherited from an...

For patients with advanced head and neck cancer, the race against time does not end when a tumor is removed. In many cases, surgery must...

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...