The skepticism and debate around the question of "are we alone in the universe" makes the field of astrobiology more cautious ...

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

Treating types of cancer with CAR T-cell therapy is expensive and inconvenient, but a streamlined approach that creates the ...

Paracetamol, also known as acetaminophen, is widely used to treat pain and fever. It is produced from molecules derived from ...

A novel suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.

You may think you know static electricity, but its true nature has long eluded scientists. We’ve now made a huge leap towards ...

The thrill of great science is all around us in North Texas, as our colleague Miriam Fauzia reminded us in a recent story ...

According to my observations, a new generation of consumers is rediscovering foam—but this time they’re trading the plate for ...

Proteins are the infinitely varied chemicals that make cells work, and science has a pretty good idea how they are made. But ...

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working ...

Deconstructing epoxy resins with hot acetic acid has the potential to provide a scalable and affordable solution for ...

UC San Diego’s earthquake shake table will test a ten story building built from a lightweight recycled steel to possibly expand its use for tall structures in earthquake zones.