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 ...

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 ...

For decades, doctors have judged blood pressure risk by a single, deceptively simple number: the average. But a sweeping new study drawing on nearly 190,000 adults from the UK Biobank suggests that ...

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

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 ...

A quiet revolution is unfolding at the scale of a human hair. In work highlighted in a News and Views piece by Wenqi Hu of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, published in Nature ...

In the natural world, organisms and their environments are locked in a constant conversation. Termites build nests that alter airflow and humidity, which in turn changes how the termites behave.

Boron has long been one of the most stubborn elements on the periodic table. It is light, abundant, and chemically versatile, yet for decades the crystalline forms of pure boron that chemists could ...

More than four years after the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic ended, one of the most persistent questions in public health is how much the virus still kills. A new nationwide analysis from ...