Transposable elements are often described as genomic parasites, DNA sequences that copy and paste themselves around the ...

Microwave thawing of meat can slash defrosting times by up to one hundred-fold compared with refrigeration methods, yet the ...

Vitamin D3 is one of the most stubborn nutrients in the human diet. It is fiercely lipophilic, essentially insoluble in water ...

The world’s two largest biofuel industries—bioethanol and biodiesel—generate staggering mountains of waste every year.

In a result that rewrites the textbook picture of one of ultrafast science’s most trusted measuring tools, physicists have ...

Scientists at Stanford University have unveiled a detailed laboratory protocol for a high-throughput drug screening platform ...

Fine particulate matter, the invisible haze of particles smaller than 2.5 microns that drifts from traffic, industry, and wildfire smoke, has long been linked to respiratory and cardiovascular ...

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

Strange metals are among the most perplexing states of matter in modern condensed matter physics. Found most famously in the normal state of high-temperature superconducting cuprates, they defy the ...

A common bacterium that lives quietly on the human tongue may hold one of the most surprising clues yet in the search for interventions that slow aging. In a study published in Nature Aging, a team ...

High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) is the most lethal gynecological malignancy, and its notorious heterogeneity has frustrated efforts to find reliable predictors of treatment response. A new ...

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