When tissue is starved of oxygen, the body’s first line of rescue is the growth of new blood vessels, a process known as ...

High in the Peruvian Andes, where the thin atmosphere lets ultraviolet radiation slam into the skin with unusual force, a ...

Deep in the mountain fynbos of South Africa, a frog smaller than a fingernail is quietly rewriting what scientists thought ...

Few discoveries in modern condensed matter physics have energized the community quite like the rise of the nickelate ...

Colorectal cancer remains one of the deadliest and most frequently diagnosed gastrointestinal malignancies in the world, and clinicians have long struggled with a frustrating gap: the molecular tools ...

Researchers at the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR) in Mexico have unveiled TOTEM, a fully ...

For two decades, the world of two-dimensional materials has been dominated by substances that naturally flake apart into atomically thin sheets: graphite, molybdenum disulfide, and their layered ...

Generative artificial intelligence has become remarkably good at dreaming up molecules. Feed a model a protein pocket or a desired property profile, and it will happily pour out thousands of candidate ...

Soil salinization has long been recognized as one of the most stubborn threats to global agriculture, but a new analysis in Nature Food argues that the true price of salt in the world’s soils e ...

Aboard a spacecraft, the air astronauts breathe is a closed loop, recycled endlessly through ducts, filters, and scrubbers ...

How long ago did this person die? It sounds like a simple question, but for forensic anthropologists confronted with a set of ...

Deep inside the developing mammalian cortex, a thin band of early-born neurons called the subplate has long puzzled ...