Science

Wild Boar Fetuses Reveal a Hidden Life Cycle of Environmental Metal Pollution Wild boar may be telling environmental scientists far more than whether a landscape...

Species-Identification Apps Can Bring People Closer to Nature—or Pull Them Away A smartphone camera pointed at a flower, insect or bird can now summon a...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, have long been described as “forever chemicals” because the carbon–fluorine bonds that define many of these compounds are exceptionally...

A Parkinson’s Test That Can Detect Misfolded Proteins Is Entering Its Standardization Era A laboratory test capable of detecting tiny amounts of misfolded alpha-synuclein is...

A new modeling study suggests that the biggest source of variation in how patients respond to medicines may not be how quickly their bodies absorb,...

Esophageal cancer surgery has entered an era of smaller incisions, robotic instruments and faster recovery—but a long-standing question has remained unresolved: should surgeons routinely create...

A single 1-milligram starter dose of the cancer immunotherapy tarlatamab was followed by a fatal case of tumour lysis syndrome in a woman with relapsed...

Soybean Flavonoids Push Antibiotic-Factory Bacteria Into a Wall-Less State A pair of compounds found abundantly in soybeans can coax one of the world’s most important...

A $500 Open-Source Sensor Could Give Urban Railways a Low-Power Way to Count Wheels Urban rail operators may soon have a simpler way to record...

Concrete That Heals Twice: Nested Capsules Could Give Cracked Infrastructure a Second Chance Concrete may be the backbone of modern infrastructure, but it has a...

Ethiopia’s Giant Open Dump Has a Hidden Risk Map—and Water Pollution Tops It Every day, roughly 3,000 tonnes of municipal waste arrive at Repi, an...

Controlled-environment agriculture may be entering a new phase in which greenhouses do more than measure their surroundings: they continuously interpret noisy data, anticipate changing conditions...