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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A single pollutant, swallowed by a pregnant mother in doses that would not raise eyebrows at a seafood counter, may be enough to bend the arc of her children’s development in profoundly different d ...

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

Endometriosis affects an estimated 10 percent of women of reproductive age worldwide, causing chronic pelvic pain, inflammation and infertility, yet its underlying biology remains stubbornly ...