Technology and Engineering

Sugarcane’s extraordinary genetic complexity has finally yielded one of its oldest biological secrets. A new study has resolved how certain...

A global push to limit warming to 1.5 °C could create an unexpected threat to food security: less land available...

Multiple sclerosis has long been understood as a disease in which immune cells attack the central nervous system, but the...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have developed an experimental anticancer compound that appears to make treatment-resistant tumors vulnerable again....

Perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells have become one of the most closely watched technologies in the race to increase the efficiency...

A new study in Nature Communications is drawing attention to a deceptively simple idea with potentially far-reaching consequences: groups may...

A subtle chemical switch on histone proteins may determine whether DNA gathers into liquid-like droplets inside the cell, according to...

Polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, has long been valued as one of the most practical plastics on Earth. Lightweight, durable, inexpensive...

As college football season approaches, a team of students and recent alumni at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering is...

A new study in Pediatric Research is examining whether a simple blood test taken early in life can predict which...