A new study from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Professor Nicholas Tonks, graduate student Yuxin Cen, and postdoctoral fellow ...

Only Hubble’s sharpness can unveil the intricate details that hint at the processes shaping this enigmatic structure.

Mineral sunscreens, especially those with zinc oxide, often leave behind a white, chalky layer on the skin. It can feel like ...

Ashwagandha’s story is being rewritten in the language of modern science. According to the NIH, its benefits include easing ...

The researchers showed it’s possible to influence dream content, a key step toward proving that REM sleep dreams may help ...

There's a comforting idea in planetary science. That no matter how strange a distant world looks, its beginnings might still ...

Perovskite solar cells are seen as the future of renewable energy because they can be very efficient and low-cost. But the ...

In a mouse model of acne, the microneedle patches loaded with drugs significantly reduced swelling, bacterial levels, and inflammatory signals, while boosting anti-inflammatory activity. Tissue ...

SAR11 bacteria comprise some 40% of marine bacterial cells, making them an essential part of our ocean ecosystems. (Image source: Smithsonian / Xiaowei Zhao.) For decades, SAR11 bacteria, tiny ocean ...

The superconducting gap sets the basic energy scale that allows electricity to flow without resistance in a superconductor. In high‑temperature cuprates, the paired electrons (Cooper pairs) are mostly ...

In this idea, life’s first steps may have happened inside sticky gels attached to surfaces, similar in some ways to modern microbial biofilms. Biofilms are the thin layers of bacteria you see on rocks ...

A nuclear transition such as that in thorium-229 will be much less disturbed in the solid state, and its clock transition will be mostly preserved even in a crystal environment. The solid-state ...