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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Clinical genetics involves the study, counselling and treatment of individuals and families with heritable disorders and disease predisposition. Diagnostic tools include standard ontologies for ...