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A multicenter randomized controlled trial has found that liposuction substantially reduced leg pain in women with lipoedema compared with the current standard of care, supplying the first large trial…

Melon seeds are a problem on an archaeologist's table. They turn up at Chinese sites, small and flat and stubbornly anonymous: melons, cucumbers and their wild relatives all belong to the genus…

Archaea that live inside marine sponges have long been classed as strict ammonia-eaters, microbes whose sole job is stripping nitrogen waste from their host. A study published Sept. 4 in Science…

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have sequenced nuclear paleogenomes from two fossils of Miracinonyx trumani (the extinct animal long called the American cheetah) and found it…

The FDA granted accelerated approval on Sept. 4, 2026 to Etcamah (camizestrant), made by AstraZeneca, for adults with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative locally advanced or metastatic breast…

The Food and Drug Administration approved Zanvastro (zilganersen) injection on Sept. 3 for Alexander disease, a rare inherited disorder of the nervous system, and says it is the first approved…

Chimpanzees at two African sites can be told apart by the sound of their laughs, grunts and whimpers, and the difference is sharper in juveniles than in infants, researchers report in PLOS One.…

A team co-led by the University of Cambridge and HHMI's Janelia Research Campus has published a complete wiring map of a male fruit fly's central nervous system on Sept. 3 in Cell, covering the brain…

The Hong Kong-listed drug developer Akeso said on Sept. 2 that its lung-cancer antibody ivonescimab met the overall-survival endpoint of a Phase III trial that tested it against pembrolizumab, and…

Regions that reached more infants with nirsevimab, a long-acting antibody injection given to babies to prevent respiratory syncytial virus, recorded the largest declines in emergency-department…

A gene-edited pig kidney kept a man with end-stage kidney disease off dialysis for 271 days before it failed and was removed. Eighty-two days later, he received a human kidney that worked…

A second has been defined as 9,192,631,770 swings of a microwave field tuned to a cesium atom. The definition works: satellite navigation, power grids and financial timestamps all rest on it. The…