Technology and Engineering

Brown bullhead catfish melanoma in Lake Memphremagog is a single clonal cancer lineage that appears to spread between individuals, according...

Artificial intelligence is becoming a core instrument of scientific discovery, but it introduces a vulnerability that conventional cybersecurity often misses:...

A new exploratory study is adding fresh data to the long-running question of whether immune activity around birth might influence...

A team from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem reports that lignin—an abundant plant polymer usually viewed as industrial waste—can be...

Flies hunting airborne odor plumes do more than follow scent—they “edge track,” repeatedly steering along the moving boundary between odor...

Simple chemical cues may soon help scientists predict which trace elements are most likely to enter plants from contaminated soils....

Columbia University’s new Prospective Genetic Risk Evaluation and Assessment (PROGRESS) effort aims to change how genetic risk is handled for...

Mountain tunnels built in weak ground can experience severe inward convergence, known as squeezing ground. As the surrounding rock deforms,...

Bacteria face relentless pressure from bacteriophages, yet their protective arsenals include many partially independent defense modules. A central question has...

Extremely preterm birth sets the stage for a cascade of cardiopulmonary and brain stresses during the fragile days after delivery....