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Every step, hop, and jump you take sends a mechanical message to your skeleton, and for millions of postmenopausal women at risk of osteoporosis, getting...

Every autonomous vehicle must answer two questions continuously and simultaneously: where am I, and what does the world around me look like? For robots navigating...

From weightlifting to tai chi, not all movement is created equal when it comes to the aging brain. A new study suggests that the variety...

Zebra finches, the tiny Australian songbirds whose courtship melodies have long served as a model system for studying vocal learning, have just delivered a surprising...

In a striking illustration of how a single genetic deletion can disrupt the body’s clotting cascade without ever putting a patient in danger, researchers at...

Scientists are proposing a new way to think about why cancer immunotherapy works for some patients and fails for others, and the answer, they argue,...

Precision oncology has long promised a future in which each patient’s tumor is read like a molecular instruction manual, with treatments selected to match the...

Thyroid cancer is often described as one of the most treatable malignancies, with most differentiated tumors responding well to surgery and radioactive iodine therapy. Yet...

Aging does not unfold at the same pace everywhere in the body, and one of the most ambitious attempts yet to quantify that asymmetry suggests...

In advanced breast cancer, few clinical situations are as ominous as visceral crisis — the rapid, life-threatening spread of disease to organs such as the...

For more than a century, the adult human heart has been viewed as a terminally differentiated organ, incapable of meaningful self-repair. Cardiomyocytes, the contractile cells...

Electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction has long been celebrated as one of the most promising routes for turning waste emissions into useful fuels and chemicals, yet...

The Asian longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis, has long posed a puzzle to evolutionary biologists and public health officials alike. Unlike most animals, some populations of...

In a discovery that reshapes how biologists think about cellular quality control, researchers have identified an entirely new mechanism by which cells repair their damaged...

In one of the largest analyses of tumor genetics ever assembled, an international team of researchers has shown that the amount of a mutant gene...