Crystallized carbon has caused all kinds of trouble throughout human history, with the shiny rocks causing (and continuing to cause) bloodshed and strife by their high...

There may be no such thing as a ’safe’ tan based on ultraviolet (UV) radiation, according to a series of papers published in the October issue of Pigment...

MIT researchers are developing a new kind of autonomous wheelchair that can learn all about the locations in a given building, and then take its occupant to a given...

Aspirin is among the most popular remedies used by people. Turns out some plants like it, too. Researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research were...

Risking being scooped and having patents refused, some scientists are posting their data online as they produce them.

North Carolina State University has just been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to create the National Research Center for Future Renewable Energy...

Computer researchers built a tool that demonstrates how hackers could silently turn Facebook users into a powerful zombie army that can attack other websites or scout...

A new analysis done by researchers from the University of Michigan has determined that captive breeding colonies of a critically endangered Asian vulture, whose numbers...

Two vaccines against cervical cancer are being widely used without sufficient evidence about whether they are worth their high cost or even whether they will...

Researchers at the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site last year injected 5,000 gallons of molasses into the soil to try to clean up toxic groundwater near...

As science races to confront terrorism with new technology, researchers are unveiling a new generation of devices featuring ever-more sophisticated sensors to quickly...

Who can forget the historical sci-fi moment when the Dr Emmet Brown of “Back to the Future” fame shoved some garbage into his time car to make it run?

The FBI is investigating two bombings that targeted university scientists, the latest in a rash of attacks against biomedical researchers who experiment on animals,...

Organisms ranging from humans to plants to the lowliest bacterium use molecules to communicate.

While scientists and physicians know what happens if you don’t get six to eight hours of shut-eye a night, investigators have long been puzzled about what...

A study of forensic psychiatric patients in Michigan - half of whom were deemed unfit to stand trial and half of whom were found not guilty through insanity - revealed...

Like humans with a nose for the best restaurants, roundworms also use their senses of taste and smell to navigate. And now, researchers may have found how a...

LSU scientist Huiming Bao, along with colleagues from UCLA and China, recently discovered some of the first atmospheric evidence in support of the “Snowball Earth”...

A group of US researchers laid out the foundations Monday for a new online library on human genetics stored within the existing framework of open-access encyclopedia...

Researchers plan to create a library of human genetics, with entries on the workings of individual genes, and make it available for anyone in Wikipedia rather than in...