Surgery for colorectal cancer in patients aged 90 and older has long been viewed with caution, if not outright skepticism.

For decades, dermatologists have struggled with a deceptively simple question: when a yellowish bump appears on a patient’s ...

A three-year surveillance program in Quzhou City, in western Zhejiang Province, China, has found that poultry-associated ...

Scientists in South Korea have found a way to take ordinary oak wood and strip away nearly all of its lignin, the tough ...

Preterm birth, the delivery of a baby before thirty-seven weeks of gestation, remains one of the most stubborn puzzles in ...

Lithium-ion batteries have long been locked into a costly dependency on cobalt, a metal whose supply chains are fraught with ...

Every night after a twelve-hour shift, millions of nurses around the world do what much of the rest of the population does: ...

Video has never been easier to fake. Consumer editing suites can duplicate a frame, splice in footage from another clip, or ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and atherosclerosis are two of the biggest killers in modern medicine, and they rarely ...

Across the vast drylands of northern China, vegetation has long walked a delicate tightrope between surviving drought and ...

Plants have long been valued for producing some of the most powerful molecules in medicine: morphine for pain, quinine for ...

A devastating wheat pathogen listens to the acidity of its surroundings with far more sophistication than scientists ...