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Industrial wastewater could soon be treated with a material that is not only highly effective at capturing toxic lead, but also substantially cheaper and less...

A digital stethoscope promoted as an intelligent aid for detecting heart disease may be far less reliable in dogs and cats than in humans, according...

A nearly 30-year bird survey in Washington’s Puget Sound lowlands has delivered a message that could reshape how residential development is planned: New housing does...

Obesity is often described as a disorder of excess fat accumulation, but a new review argues that this familiar definition misses the biological turmoil unfolding...

A routine newborn blood test could become an early-warning system for childhood cancer, according to a new population-based genomic study published in Nature Communications. Researchers...

China’s biggest urban clusters are becoming the frontline of a global environmental experiment: how can densely populated regions remain resilient to shocks while producing economic...

Tropical forests are often treated as a single planetary machine for absorbing carbon, but a new satellite-based analysis suggests that the world’s great rainforest regions...

A few drops of blood collected from a newborn’s heel may contain clues about whether that child is at unusually high risk of developing cancer...

A molecule that can be opened, closed, made to glow and even directed to form different products with different wavelengths of light could become a...

READING, Pa. — For parents trying to keep running in their lives after having a child, a stroller may be more than a way to...

Female Cope’s gray treefrogs appear to suffer from the same problem that confronts humans in crowded stores, overflowing streaming menus and dating apps: too many...

A new study is turning ordinary drone flights into a high-tech early-warning system for aging bridges, combining aerial imagery with artificial intelligence to identify defects...

Shengxi Huang, an associate professor in Rice University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been elected a fellow of SPIE, the international society for...

Obesity and cancer research has built a substantial evidence base over the past decade, but a new analysis from the National Cancer Institute says important...

Altermagnetism, a recently recognized form of magnetism that could reshape the future of computer memory, has taken a significant step toward practical control. Researchers at...