You can't escape ozone in a big city, but we can all work to make less of it. Dan Smith shows how combining three oxygen ...

Whether it's neurons responding to electrical signals or plants stretching toward light, nature is filled with examples of biological materials that respond to their environment. Now, researchers want ...

A new study of the Helix Nebula shows a never-before-seen detail of how dying stars recycle elements. Researchers found it by ...

Physicists with the Beijing Spectrometer III (BES III) experiment have uncovered convincing new evidence of the existence of so-called glueballs, an elusive composite particle made entirely of gluons ...

Scientists probing life’s deepest origins have uncovered evidence that the first free-living cells may have emerged not once, but twice. The findings suggest a striking possibility: life may share one ...

Individual metabolism and health can also determine just how healthy coffee is for each person. For future research, ...

Our understanding of the internal structure of protons is largely based on classical physics, but data compiled from ...

Neither of Monday's announcements are likely to immediately impact American diets, which are blamed for a host of chronic ...

A new assessment from the United States’ most influential science advisory panel says climate attribution science has moved beyond asking whether human-caused global warming is driving deadly heat ...

A look at the dwarf planet Pluto and Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, baffled astronomers after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) detected a chemical signature on their surfaces that does not match ...

Plutonium is one of the most complex elements in the periodic table. First synthesized and isolated in 1940 by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, plutonium has been studied closely ...

Researchers have identified a new Alzheimer’s target and created an experimental compound that blocks a damaging process inside brain cells. In mice, the treatment slowed nerve cell loss, reduced ...