A new study explains why certain patients develop severe infections after chemotherapy and points to ways of averting this side-effect. Cancer chemotherapy can be a life-saver, but it is fraught with ...

From industrial robots to self-driving cars, engineers face a common problem: keeping machines steady and predictable. When ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) takes on increasingly critical roles—from managing power grids to piloting autonomous ...

Having levels of potassium that are too high or too low can be fatal. A new mathematical model sheds light on the often mysterious ways the body regulates this important electrolyte. Having levels of ...

Caspases (cysteine-containing aspartate-specific proteases) are at the core of the cell's suicide machinery. These enzymes, once activated, dismantle the cell by selectively cleaving key proteins ...

For the first time, researchers have used decades of information about sex to calculate a mathematical model for achieving sexual climax. Mathematical models are used to analyze, explain, and predict ...