Chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, remain among the world’s most persistent killers. In the European region alone, they account for n ...

Textiles have accompanied humanity for thousands of years, but the fibres that make up our clothing have remained, for the most part, electrically passive. A growing body of research aims to change ...

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

Chronic pain affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide, and for many of them, implanted devices that stimulate peripheral nerves offer one of the few remaining options when drugs fail. Yet ...

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 ...

Gastric cancer remains one of the world’s deadliest malignancies, ranking fifth among the most commonly diagnosed cancers and ...

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

A text message program originally designed to treat anxiety appears to deliver an unexpected bonus: relief from depression.

For millions of stroke survivors worldwide, the moment they are declared medically stable is often treated as the finish line ...

Every year, India generates roughly eight million tonnes of floral waste, much of it marigold garlands discarded after ...

A newly published review in the journal Molecular Cancer has brought renewed attention to a molecule that most people outside ...