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

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 ...

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

For decades, the dream of projecting a fully three-dimensional image into empty space has been constrained by an inconvenient truth of physics: light refuses to stay where it is told.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...