A team of chemists has shown that a single, carefully designed organic molecule can be coaxed into forming seven entirely ...

Bisphenol A, the once-ubiquitous plastic hardener that still lingers in food-can linings, thermal receipts, and countless ...

War has always destroyed harvests, but a sweeping new analysis published in Nature Food shows just how systematically armed conflict strips the planet of its farmland. By combining annual, ...

Modern biology has a data problem, and it is not a shortage of measurements. The latest sequencing technologies can now read out gene expression, chromatin accessibility, protein abundance and even ...

Raising a child with autism spectrum disorder is often described as a labor of love, but for many mothers it is also a ...

Radiation therapy has always been a discipline of exquisite precision, a practice in which millimeters and milligrays ...

Anembryonic pregnancy, a form of early miscarriage in which a gestational sac develops but an embryo never forms, accounts ...

Welding thick steel plates is one of those deceptively simple industrial operations that hides a ferocious physics problem.

One of the most stubborn obstacles in cancer immunotherapy is not the tumor cell itself but the cellular entourage that ...

Neurosurgeons have long assumed that removing a brain tumour must be followed by days of inpatient monitoring, but a new ...

When the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic swept through Mexico in 2020, hospitals in Mexico City transformed almost overnight. Wards were ...

One of the most stubborn problems in modern genomics has finally been given a serious new contender. Single-cell RNA ...