Science

Glaciers may look solid and immovable from a distance, but much of their most important structural damage is hidden beneath the surface. A new study...

Ghent, 18 August 2026 — Beneath the soil, tomato roots are not passive anchors but dynamic biological interfaces where plants and fungi negotiate an exchange...

A new machine-learning approach could give acoustic engineers a faster way to predict how microslit panels behave when air rushes across their surfaces, a condition...

A crack pulling through a water-filled solid may appear to follow the simplest possible path: tension opens the material, the fracture advances, and the structure...

UC San Diego has received a $12.3 million, five-year grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health,...

Aflatoxin, one of the most dangerous families of foodborne toxins, may soon face an unusual opponent: living cells transformed into microscopic sensing and treatment units....

Air Pollution May Reshape Alzheimer’s-Vulnerable Brain Regions—But the Pattern Changes With Age Common outdoor air pollutants may be associated with structural changes in brain regions...

A new study has identified autoantibodies targeting CD320, the cellular receptor responsible for transporting vitamin B12 into cells, in a subset of people with idiopathic...

University of Missouri researchers have found that moving the start and end of an overnight hospital shift forward by two hours may improve physicians’ sleep...

The ancient dead of Egypt are revealing a surprisingly modern story: even in a tomb reused for centuries, burial space was not necessarily chaotic. A...

Head and neck cancer research is entering a phase in which viral technology, tumor genomics and personalized immunology are being combined into a single treatment...

On World Breast Cancer Research Day, the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology is drawing attention to the clinical research that has transformed breast cancer...