Guest essayist Katie Digianantonio urges federal leaders to support funding for the National Institutes of Health and ...

Plastic manufacturers are pushing to have their products counted as compost. Composters and farmers are trying to stop them.

A new molecule may soon enable tiny hard drives that store vastly more data. Withstanding extreme cold, it paves the way for ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

Materials science might seem very technical, but as a scientific discipline, it has led to many shifts in society over the ...

Cornell researchers have found a new and potentially more accurate way to see what proteins are doing inside living cells - using the cells' own components as built-in sensors.

Imagine a liquid that flows freely one moment, then stiffens into a near-solid the next, and then can switch back with a ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

The discovery itself is simple and fundamental, but the applications stretch far and wide into astrophysics and quantum ...

You may think you know static electricity, but its true nature has long eluded scientists. We’ve now made a huge leap towards ...

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

Silver-110’s decay reveals a promising path to measure antineutrino mass. New data could reshape future neutrino studies.