Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major health burden affecting approximately one in ten adults globally. Even with improved ...

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is the most common inherited cause of kidney failure. Despite decades of ...

Urea is the dominant nitrogen compound in human urine and represents a valuable fertiliser resource if enzymatic hydrolysis can be controlled during storage and processing. One method to recover urea ...

Kirstyn Hill has worked as a clinical pediatric and women’s health pharmacist since 2020. She was driven to work with a patient population that is not often able to easily speak up for themselves and ...

Stephen Lankenau has spent years studying how people use cannabis in everyday life. As director of Drexel University’s Medical Cannabis Research Center, he has watched legalization spread, products ...

Physicists have long been drawn to the nonlinear Hall effect: a subtle variant of the classical Hall effect, in which an electric voltage appears perpendicular to a current flowing through a material.

Shortly after Inauguration Day in 2025, Planet Money visited Little Village, a predominantly Mexican-American neighborhood in Chicago. It felt oddly quiet for what was usually a bustling part of the ...

Hantavirus pulmonary infection is a disease caused by some hantaviruses, not the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, contrary to widely shared online posts that misrepresented a document listing medical ...

Spironolactone is a generic drug prescribed for certain conditions, such as high blood pressure in adults. As with other drugs, spironolactone can cause side effects, such as dizziness and high blood ...

New research indicates that the long-term neurological impact of childhood trauma is not permanently etched onto the brain. An analysis of brain communication patterns in a group of individuals who ...

Inspired by the Olympian’s comeback, people are rediscovering the sports that once shaped them — and sharing their journeys online Emma Schaefer; Matthew Stockman/Getty After figure skater Alysa Liu ...

To some, METR’s “time horizon plot” indicates that AI utopia—or apocalypse—is close at hand. The truth is more complicated. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy ...