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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...

Dinosaurs are remembered as Earth’s giants: towering sauropods that outweighed dozens of elephants, and predators such as Tyrannosaurus rex that...

Hydrogels are among the most promising materials in modern biomedicine. They are soft, water-rich networks that can resemble the physical...

A new study published in Nature Communications reports that where people live—and how race and economic disadvantage are concentrated across...