Older adults who suffer hip fractures face a high risk of complications after surgery, particularly postoperative pulmonary infection. A new...

Mechanical metamaterials promise tougher, lighter materials—but designing them has been slow because fracture is governed by mechanisms that span many...

An international team led by researchers at Hiroshima University has uncovered a way to detect early-stage deterioration in human skin...

A new UK study tracking how smokers source cigarettes and hand-rolling tobacco reports a notable rise in purchases from illicit...

Fungi quietly underpin modern life, from producing medicines and shaping food systems to enabling industrial material processing. Yet their genetic...

Researchers at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), IrsiCaixa, and CIBEREHD have introduced...

Duke of the first immune responders is being rewritten by new work showing that not all neutrophils behave like rubble...

Flexible tactile sensing is a persistent bottleneck for robots, wearables, and bedside monitoring systems—especially when devices must remain reliable on...

LMU researchers have reported a striking challenge to a long-standing textbook rule of photosynthesis: oxygenic photosynthesis can, in principle, occur...

A new analysis of geomagnetic storm “saturation” challenges a long-held idea in space weather research: that the solar wind energy...