Every year, over 100 billion nitrile rubber gloves are produced. They are made from synthetic polymers—a material chemically related to plastic and derived from crude oil. The vast majority is used in ...

Martin Kamen and Samuel Ruben's discovery of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 in 1940 helped usher in a new era of dating ...

For many students in India, CERN feels like a distant dream, tied only to the Large Hadron Collider and the Higgs boson discovery. In reality, while physics drives CERN’s mission, the lab is one ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

KLF5 appears to fuel pancreatic cancer metastasis by reprogramming epigenetic controls, offering a potential new therapeutic target.

In laboratory experiments, researchers have produced ear cartilage that remains form-stable in animal models. Only one ...

NATO- and U.S.-backed hypersonic ceramic survives 2,700 K plasma test, revealing potential new path to reusable extreme-speed flight.

The Genesis Mission, led by the Department of Energy, is bringing together all 17 of the U.S. national laboratories to use artificial intelligence systems, in combination with supercomputers and emerg ...

A quiet shift in the numbers behind the universe’s growth is pushing scientists toward a bold possibility. Two of the cosmos’ most elusive players, dark matter and neutrinos, may not be strangers ...

Psychological science has never been more societally relevant, says APS President James Pennebaker in his third presidential column.

Southwest Research Institute was part of an international team that demonstrated how complex organic molecules (COMs), key ...

The Tri-Cities national laboratory has been assigned research projects under the initiative after losing hundreds of workers in the last fiscal year.