The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 25 international members in recognition of ...

Anyone who has ever used a microscope knows that it takes time to bring a sample into sharp focus. Each time you move the ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers discovered a paradoxical phenomenon in optical physics that could enable a ...

MIT scientists have engineered a revolutionary brain imaging tool, converting chaotic laser light into a focused beam. This ...

Teleportation sounds clean until the machinery gets involved. A person steps into a chamber, presses a button, and appears ...

Slime molds are yellow, oozing, amoeba-like organisms often found on decaying logs and in moist areas. They have no neurons ...

Every day, treated wastewater from cities across the United States releases billions of microplastic particles into rivers, ...

Soil contamination with hazardous inorganic and organic compounds, including emerging pollutants, poses a serious threat to ecosystem functioning and ...

Scientists from Trinity College Dublin and RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences have created new "hybrid" immune ...

Sacramento State community members can see the impacts of the levee fortification project being done by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Several local groups challenged the project, saying it ...

When the liver fails, toxins—such as ammonia—that should be filtered from the blood build up and reach the brain. The result ...