For years, I’ve been looking for the striped bathrobe that Roddy McDowall’s character wears in ‘Escape from the Planet of the ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at a cleaner way to make ammonia, the brightest young scientists in North ...

Science fiction ‘s task is to imagine our future; its secret wish is to invent it. Brackett, while casting himself as a mere ...

Inside human cells, biology has pulled off the ultimate packing job, figuring out how to fit six feet of DNA into a nucleus ...

A closeup look at colibactin’s structure reveals chemical motifs that guide its mutation-wreaking “warheads” to specific stretches of DNA.

Life on our planet may have started via a process fueled by hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor billions of years ago, and ...

"During the early solar system's game of cosmic billiards, Earth was struck by a neighbor,” said Dauphas. “It was a lucky shot. Without the moon's steadying influence on our planet's tilt, the climate ...

To author Anjana Khatwa, rocks are “storykeepers of time.” She blends science and spirituality to explore the origin story of our world.

Food and Drug Administration officials say they will ratchet up requirements for vaccine studies, citing concerns about COVID ...

When the United States faced the looming threat of World War II in the 1930s, it bet big on science — and won. The nation invested billions of dollars in research at universities and in industry. That ...

Doctor after doctor misdiagnosed or shrugged off Ruth Wilson’s rashes, swelling, fevers and severe pain for six years. She saved her life by begging for one more test in an emergency room about to ...