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...
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...
