Before a newborn takes its first breath, molecular tags are already latched onto its DNA, silencing some genes, amplifying others.
Apr 11, 2026
The body makes plenty of the hormone. Arguably too much of it. And yet the hormone does almost nothing.
Apr 11, 2026
Two numbers have been circling each other for more than a decade, refusing to converge.
Apr 11, 2026
Half a kilogram a year. That's the average rate at which Swedish adults packed on weight between the ages of 17 and 60, according to one of the largest studies ever to track body weight across a lifetime.
Apr 11, 2026
On a June morning in 2015, two clusters of chimpanzees approached each other near the centre of their territory in Kibale National Park, Uganda.
Apr 9, 2026
Somewhere in a Japanese port, a shipping container hums. Inside it, a stack of ceramic wafers, each thinner than a credit card, is converting natural gas…
Apr 9, 2026
Centella asiatica is a scrubby, unremarkable-looking herb that creeps across wet ground in Vietnam, India, and much of tropical Asia.
Apr 9, 2026
Walk the wards of any busy hospital and a pattern emerges, one that clinicians have noticed for decades without quite being able to explain.
Apr 8, 2026
The lung has always seemed like the obvious casualty in the smoking story. Blackened alveoli, scarred airways, the slow choking of capacity over decades.
Apr 8, 2026
Boiling water destroys things. That, more or less, is the assumption underlying decades of nanomedicine research, which has largely ignored traditional herbal teas and decoctions as sources of therapeutic nanoparticles.
Apr 8, 2026
Call it one of the stranger epidemiological signals of the decade. Across nearly every major cancer type, in both sexes, across all racial and ethnic groups…
Apr 8, 2026
The numbers are striking, if you stop to look at them. Among people who take semaglutide for weight loss, the average reduction is roughly 10 percent of body weight.
Apr 8, 2026
Ethan Mooney was processing neutron scan data from a tiny, palm-sized creature that had died in an Oklahoma cave some 289 million years ago when something stopped him cold.
Apr 8, 2026
Somewhere on the Western Central Pacific seafloor, a net is moving. It weighs tonnes, it bristles with weights and roller gear, and it drags along the bottom at roughly four kilometres an hour, billowing sediment as it goes.
Apr 8, 2026
