Despite the mental toll that science can take on students, I am adamant that joy can be found in science if we learn where to look for it. Receiving external support, changing how we think about ...

Haunted by the cystic fibrosis patients he could not help, one Iowa doctor commits his life to understanding what is broken deep inside their cells.

In a bar, a poet meets the man behind the drug that saved his life — discovering how science, faith and chance created a future thought impossible.

Beauty may lie in the eye of the beholder, but color doesn't, researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US report in a new study, suggesting perception of color attributes is intrinsic.

In a series of experiments at Johns Hopkins University, Lily Zhao fired tiny samples of a microorganism with a room-sized gas ...

Cambridge scientists have discovered a light-powered chemical reaction that lets researchers modify complex drug molecules at the final stages of development. Unlike traditional methods that rely on ...

An accidental lab discovery reveals that bedbugs dread water and moisture, according to a new study that may lead to new ...

In Michigan Tech's biology teaching lab, undergraduate students research potential cancer cures with help from the humble worm.

Illustrating showing Thomas Edison holding graphene on the left and a man with safety goggles holding a large blue crystal on the right Crystal craze: Fortuitous experiments led to graphene in a ...

Researchers at OpenAI and Ginkgo Bioworks showed that an AI model working with an autonomous lab can design and iterate real ...

"It is rare to discover an entirely new reaction, and even more rare for it to be useful in so many fields and applications," says chemist Justin Chalker of Flinders University, a senior author on the ...

Scientists have discovered that a rare “mirror-image” version of the amino acid cysteine can dramatically slow the growth of ...