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For nearly a century, influenza vaccine design has been a love letter to a single molecule. Hemagglutinin, the lollipop-shaped surface ...

Deep in Chilean Patagonia, one of the cloudiest inhabited landscapes on the planet, a new artificial intelligence has learned to ...

For the hundreds of thousands of amateur runners who spend months pounding city pavements in pursuit of a personal best, ...

Soil may be one of the planet's great hidden reservoirs of plastic pollution, and its most elusive contaminants — nanoplastics, ...

In a laboratory in western Iran, a parasite that has shadowed humanity since antiquity has just met a tree that ...

Leptin, the hormone famous for telling the brain that the body has eaten enough, has been caught moonlighting as a ...

The curve that a child's body mass index traces between the first and seventh birthdays may be one of the ...

For more than a century, the workhorse of bacterial detection has been essentially unchanged: smear a sample onto a gel-like ...

Confidence in one's ability to refuse a bet may be among the most revealing psychological signatures of problem gambling, and ...