Growing up among the folk shrines of southern Fujian, urban researcher Fengjue Huang reflects on how the gods wedged between buildings carry a city’s cultural memory — and why planners should write ...

A patient-facing conversational AI showed promising feasibility and safety in a single-center primary care setting, providing a basis for larger-scale evaluation.

Severe sunburn increases the risk of developing melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer. Credit: Olga Pankova/Getty. A ...

Salicylic acid is a central regulator of plant growth and immunity, yet key steps in the biosynthesis of its precursors have remained unresolved. Two complementary studies in rice identify the missing ...

A cancer patient in France has become the first person known to contract the Shamonda virus, following an outbreak in ...

Diagnostic start-ups inch towards the goal of Holmes’s failed company, Theranos, to run a multitude of tests on drops of ...

Trauma is a physiological wound, which can be penetrating or nonpenetrating, caused directly or indirectly by external physical force.

The particle-laden smoke chemically evolves as it travels to the capital city.

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Scientists tracked the changing sleep patterns of Indigenous people in Argentina who gained access to mains electricity — and ...

A large-scale benchmarking study shows that CROWN, a universal visual foundation model for cytopathology, performs robustly across more than 200 ...