Medical progress is transforming not only how long people live, but also the diseases they live with. A new population-based ...

Metastable materials often vanish from the laboratory bench before researchers can study them. They form only briefly, quickly transforming into ...

A child’s broken bone can heal in an unexpected way. Instead of restoring the delicate architecture of the growth plate, ...

Living alongside pumas may seem like a dangerous bargain, but new research suggests that the presence of these large predators ...

A healing colon does not simply switch genes on and off. Its cells appear to follow a complex daily timetable, ...

The cerebral cortex may not be built according to the simple developmental script scientists have relied on for decades. A ...

Glioblastoma, the most aggressive primary brain cancer, remains notoriously difficult to control. Its cells do not stay neatly confined within ...

Resonant optical systems can behave like exquisitely sensitive instruments, but extracting the physical information hidden in their spectral signals has ...

Food allergy researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital have reported early evidence that changing the gut microbiome may increase tolerance to ...

Urban researchers are calling for a fundamental shift in how cities are understood, modeled and governed as population change, climate ...