Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

How do biological cells join forces to form a structure? In her Ph.D. research, Daphne Nesenberend uses mathematics to show ...

At the height of her career, chemist and physicist Katharine Burr Blodgett faced challenges that not even her closest colleagues suspected ...

Your workout playlist may feel motivating, but research shows music during exercise does not reliably boost focus or mood.

In 1921, Otto Loewi woke from a dream with the idea for an experiment that proved nerves communicate using chemicals, not just electricity. By showing that stimulating one frog’s heart released a ...

Spring training is the ideal time for positional experiments, and the Los Angeles Angels have holes all around the diamond ...

Growing up in Gwinnett County, Andrew Marion developed an early fascination with airplanes, from dreams of flying them to ...

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

Modern tissue engineering requires more than isolated expertise in either biology or mechanics. Justin Jadali approaches ...

In the late 1800s, more than a hundred years before smartphones and weather apps, a physicist discovered you could step outside on a summer night, listen carefully, and estimate the temperature with ...

Researchers at the University of Tuebingen, working with an international team, have developed an artificial intelligence that designs entirely new, sometimes unusual, experiments in quantum physics ...