April brings us Citizen Science Month and Earth Day—that means it’s the perfect time to get outside, explore nature, and even ...

The ability to learn socially from one another is a defining feature of the human species. Social learning enables humans to ...

UT researchers have created an alternative to Edman degradation for protein sequencing using bases instead of acid ...

To build the experimental stations of the future, scientists at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility at DOE's ...

By isolating and focusing on stimulating only the M cells on the retina, they created a new color signal that the human eye ...

Author Dava Sobel discusses how she discovered the many forgotten female scientists who were mentored by Marie Curie in early ...

The basic technology behind Ambient Photonics's solar cells is so simple that it's routinely assembled as a high school science experiment. In labs across the U.S., students sandwich blackberries' ...

Filipino scientists have discovered a simple, affordable way to make dynamically adjustable water-based lenses that have a ...

Abnormal versions of synchronization patterns known as “Arnold’s tongues” have been observed in a femtosecond fibre laser that generates oscillating light pulses. While these unconventional patterns ...

At the end of their experiment, RISE Elementary students were pulling out a gooey, stringy substance from their strawberry mush. “That’s not a booger, that’s DNA,” Joseph Williams told the students.

The Ship of Theseus thought experiment is a long-standing problem in philosophy that has been debated for centuries.

In the soils of Earth's wetlands, microbes are in a tug-of-war to produce and consume the powerful greenhouse gas methane. But if the Earth gets too hot, it could tip the scale in favor of the methane ...