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

Cyanobacteria, as they still exist today, were the first organisms to carry out photosynthesis and release oxygen. Produced in primeval oceans about 2.5 billion years ago, this oxygen accumulated in ...

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 ...

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

The deficit is undermining national efforts to nurture a generation of scientists, engineers and health professionals.

Science is a subject built on doing. Students learn chemistry through titrations, biology through dissections, physics ...