Magazine

Two teams investigate how to improve fabrication methods of transistor-based biosensors.

Flowering plant parents cooperate to guide proper development of offspring; insight that could lead to new hybrid plants.

A safe and sustainable chemical reagent could aid cost-efficient development of new materials and medicines.

Understanding how liquid crystal molecules change positions, creating structural deformations known as topological defects, could unlock questions about similar defects in the fabric of the universe.

Understanding the economic value of medicinal plants in Malaysia’s Bidayuh community could help develop a better conservation strategy.

Improved hygiene in the developed world could have a surprising consequence: higher rates of inflammatory bowel disease.

Cockle shells could be potential scaffolds for tissue engineering.

A sprayable sensing network for real-time monitoring of structure integrity is lighter, more flexible and less expensive than conventional sensors.

New recommendations could lead to more transparent reporting of Chinese herbal medicine clinical trial results.

Novel micro-beads encapsulating probiotics could help to further lower cholesterol levels.

An immune molecule in the body shows promise for the treatment of Alzheimer’s.

Some tropical diseases are neglected because they generally afflict the world’s poor, and historically have not received as much attention or funding as other diseases.

An orchid-based skincare product could protect skin from the sun’s aging effects.

Dwarf galaxies and star-containing halos found 25 million light years away from Earth hint at how these halos are formed.