Computed tomography has transformed modern medicine by allowing clinicians to see inside the body without surgery, but the technology has a persistent weakness: metal can...
A new study in Scientific Reports is placing an urgent question at the center of Mediterranean agriculture: when freshwater supplies are under pressure, how safely...
Scientists have captured a seizure moving through a living brain in three dimensions and in real time, offering one of the clearest views yet of...
Water is often described as the universal solvent, but that familiar label captures only part of its importance. In living systems, geological environments and laboratory...
Colleen Sloan, PhD, a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, has received the Outstanding Contributions to Practice...
A fossilized growth signal in the bones of a 236-million-year-old cynodont may have revealed one of the earliest known examples of live birth in the...
A new study describes an optical modulator designed to push one of the most important performance measures in modern communications technology to an extreme: the...
A new study published in Nature Communications reports that bacteria normally living alongside humans may help suppress viral infections by producing a metabolite derived from...
The path from a promising laboratory result to an effective clinical treatment is often described as a pipeline, but a new Nature article argues that...
A new study reports that a behavioral intervention can do more than suppress the outward expression of fear: it may erase the neural trace of...
For nearly 15 years, scientists have been building organoids—three-dimensional structures grown from stem cells that mimic selected features of organs in miniature. Researchers at the...
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), one of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer, may be driven by a previously underappreciated mitochondrial protein that helps tumor...
Smartphones, smartwatches and small drones may soon have access to a different kind of rechargeable power source—one designed not only to store energy, but also...
For parents who lace up their running shoes while pushing a stroller, the extra weight and altered stride may seem like a recipe for injury....
More than 100,000 people in the United States are currently waiting for an organ transplant, while another potential recipient joins the list roughly every 10...
