Human African trypanosomiasis, better known as sleeping sickness, has long been understood as a disease of the blood, the immune…

In the semiarid backlands of Northeast Brazil, temperatures that would wilt most crops are simply part of the growing season,…

Bats and rodents harbor an extraordinary diversity of RNA viruses, several of which have spilled over into human populations with…

A simple blood test that reads the combined signatures of inflammation and metabolic dysfunction may offer clinicians one of the…

Sleep has long been measured in clinics with electrodes glued to the scalp, a technique that captures a night or…

In the world of genetics, few model organisms have earned their keep quite like the fruit fly. Now, a new…

For decades, structural biologists have photographed RNA molecules the way a photographer might capture a dancer in a single frozen…

Every day, a European satellite sweeps over the planet’s power plants, searching for faint traces of nitrogen dioxide in the…

Every bridge, dam, tunnel and power grid that modern society depends on is quietly growing older, and the decisions about…