A new analysis of genetic diversity in the United States is offering researchers a sharper way to investigate why health-related ...

The Yellow River Basin, one of China’s most important and environmentally pressured river systems, is revealing how profoundly water extremes ...

Heatwaves are no longer an occasional urban inconvenience. Across the world, extreme heat is becoming a recurring public-health emergency, and ...

For thousands of years, fire has been one of North America’s most powerful ecological forces—and one of its most misunderstood. ...

A new artificial-intelligence system could help pathologists search through three-dimensional tissue specimens without forcing them to inspect every microscopic layer ...

Ageing does not weaken the body through a single biological switch. Muscle fibres gradually lose their ability to grow and ...

A new study suggests that the turbulent neighborhoods surrounding supermassive black holes may be far more than cosmic engines of ...

Pyrogallol, a naturally occurring chemical with applications ranging from photography and dye production to pharmaceuticals and metal processing, may deserve ...

NRG Oncology, one of the principal research organizations within the U.S. National Cancer Institute’s National Clinical Trials Network, has secured ...

A catalyst made from discarded fish bones could turn one of agriculture’s most persistent waste streams into a concentrated source ...