A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that ...

Materials science might seem very technical, but as a scientific discipline, it has led to many shifts in society over the ...

Cornell researchers have found a new and potentially more accurate way to see what proteins are doing inside living cells - using the cells' own components as built-in sensors.

The discovery itself is simple and fundamental, but the applications stretch far and wide into astrophysics and quantum ...

Lutz Greb, professor at Heidelberg University’s Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, is to be presented with this year’s ...

A team of scientists across several U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories has unraveled how light and a ...

Astronomers have made an exciting discovery in deep space, identifying a large organic molecule that could be a crucial ...

A Caltech-led team has developed a safe, effective, and painless breast imaging technique that incorporates machine learning ...

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

Mathematicians soon hypothesized that as your set gets bigger, the biggest sum-free subsets will get much larger than N /3.

Leafcutter ants live in highly organized colonies where every ant has a job, and now researchers can flip those jobs like a switch. By manipulating just two neuropeptides, scientists can turn ...

Investigating how mutations in tumors alter DNA’s 3D structure—and subsequently, regulatory sequences called enhancers—can ...