Despite low estrogen levels, rapid repair responses in lactating animals could help guide new treatments to improve ...

Hongbian Li shares her experience as a reviewer, shifting to industry, and on translating materials research into real-world ...

Tracking two black-browed albatross colonies showed how unpredictable conditions push birds toward more cautious reproductive ...

From its unique properties to the physics of phase transitions, Limei Xu explains how studying water can reveal fundamental ...

Researchers have shown that fossilized plant matter, sampled from two rock formations in Wyoming dating back 50 to 60 million years, can reliably reconstruct what Earth’s atmosphere looked like at the ...

Regaining the sensation of chewing could protect patients with implants from long-term dental damage. While we may not notice it in daily life, we rely on sensory feedback from our teeth not only to ...

Light-activated “quantum killers” could offer an alternative to antibiotics. With antibiotic resistance on the rise, scientists have been looking for alternative ways to fend off bacterial infections.

A photonic actuator with separate mechanisms for color change and motion could enable smarter soft robots and sensors. Soft robots, artificial skins, and sensors increasingly rely on smart materials ...

Earthquakes and shifting tectonic plates factor into coastal erosion along the US West Coast. The oceans and winds do not bear all of the blame for coastal erosion: tectonic movements also play a ...

Large language models use reasoning capabilities to identify new genetic factors causing disease. In collaboration with Taiwanese colleagues and Google Research and Google DeepMind, researchers at ...

“Both biological and digital vision convert light into electrical signals through light-sensitive elements—the retina in the eye and image sensors in cameras,” write a research team from Italy led by ...

For the first time, scientists have detected microplastics in cancerous gastric tissue. Microplastics are everywhere, from the highest mountains to the deepest seas and even in rainwater, as recently ...