Anyone who has ever used a microscope knows that it takes time to bring a sample into sharp focus. Each time you move the ...

How do photosynthetic organisms harvest light so efficiently? To help answer this question, researchers have developed an ultrafast transient absorption microscope with sensitivity approaching the ...

A ripple tells you something happened, but not exactly what. That is the core problem behind a hard class of equations that ...

Scientists shared transcripts with The Times in which chatbots described how to assemble deadly pathogens and unleash them in ...

Think back to spring of 2020, when “university by Zoom” replaced the college experience of popular imagination and became the reality of students’ lives for the next year and half. Schools rushed to ...

Most hypotheses suggest that earlier forms of life had partial genetic codes and used fewer than 20 amino acids. To test ...

Scientists knew the stingers and pincers of these arachnids generally contained metals, but a new Smithsonian-led study maps ...

Detailed maps of smell receptors in the nose overturn textbook models of olfactory receptor organization in mice.

Leveling and catching in classic-style Pokémon games like FireRed, LeafGreen, and Radical Red can be both rewarding and challenging. From finding the best EXP farming spots to using items and trades ...

Red blood cells modified with Nobel-prizewinning chemistry can snap together to form clots that staunch bleeding in seconds.

Curiosity rover has found new organic molecules at "Mary Anning" on Mars, adding to evidence that the planet had the ...