Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to study plant microbiomes—communities of microbes living in and around ...

Scientists analyzing data from heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—the world's most powerful particle ...

Influenza, the virus responsible for flu, is known to spread through aerosols (microscopic droplets) released when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or even breathes normally. It can also pass from ...

Stable blood sugar, not carbo-loading, may be the key to endurance.

Scientists aim to build the first graviton detector to explore gravity's quantum nature, despite significant challenges.

Discover how everyday bathroom products like toothpaste and shampoo illustrate the fascinating physics of soft matter and its ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...

Nature-based projects to mitigate flooding for homeowners now face uncertainty, as a key state grant program remains unfunded ...

All celestial bodies—planets, suns, even entire galaxies—produce magnetic fields, affecting such cosmic processes as the solar wind, high-energy particle transport, and galaxy formation. Small-scale ...

Let’s say it’s 2036, and scientists are working on a new class of drugs. Today, for instance, pharmaceutical companies use ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...