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In the global race to produce clean hydrogen without pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, one of the most elegant solutions has long remained stubbornly...

A team of researchers in New Delhi has developed a biodegradable food packaging film made from polyvinyl alcohol and starch, cross-linked with ordinary fruit acids,...

Soybean farmers have long battled Phytophthora root rot, a devastating oomycete disease that destroys crops worldwide, but a new breakthrough from Chinese scientists may transform...

Recommender systems shape much of the modern internet, quietly deciding which films appear on a streaming homepage, which products surface in an online storefront, and...

Micro-expressions are the fleeting, involuntary facial movements that betray a person’s true emotional state in a fraction of a second, often lasting less than half...

Scientists have taught an artificial intelligence to read stress directly from the body, and the results suggest that a simple wrist-worn sensor paired with deep...

Vitamin D has long been cast as a kind of nutritional guardian against cancer, a molecule whose deficiency seemed to lurk behind a long list...

Adam, the adaptive optimization algorithm that underpins much of modern deep learning, has long been treated as something of a black box whose internal settings...

A simple $40 monthly grocery voucher, redeemable at the local stores patients already trust, appears to have done what many elaborate interventions have struggled to...

Vestibular schwannomas, benign tumours arising from the vestibular division of the eighth cranial nerve, sit in one of the most anatomically treacherous corners of the...

Status epilepticus—a seizure that refuses to stop—is one of the most feared emergencies in neurology, and when it shrugs off multiple rounds of medication it...

The intricate branching architecture of neurons has long fascinated neuroscientists, not only for its beauty but because it holds the key to understanding how the...

Cold stress remains one of the most stubborn barriers standing between sorghum and the temperate farmland it could otherwise transform. A major new genetic study,...

In a finding that is already rippling through the world of ornamental plant science, researchers in China have pieced together, gene by gene and pigment...

Two hospitalised patients in obstetrics and gynaecology departments in northeastern Algeria, recovering from post-operative wound infections, turned out to be carrying something far more alarming...