In this idea, life’s first steps may have happened inside sticky gels attached to surfaces, similar in some ways to modern microbial biofilms. Biofilms are the thin layers of bacteria you see on rocks ...

Only Hubble’s sharpness can unveil the intricate details that hint at the processes shaping this enigmatic structure.

There's a comforting idea in planetary science. That no matter how strange a distant world looks, its beginnings might still ...

Ashwagandha’s story is being rewritten in the language of modern science. According to the NIH, its benefits include easing ...

A nuclear transition such as that in thorium-229 will be much less disturbed in the solid state, and its clock transition will be mostly preserved even in a crystal environment. The solid-state ...

In a mouse model of acne, the microneedle patches loaded with drugs significantly reduced swelling, bacterial levels, and ...

A new study from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Professor Nicholas Tonks, graduate student Yuxin Cen, and postdoctoral fellow ...

Mineral sunscreens, especially those with zinc oxide, often leave behind a white, chalky layer on the skin. It can feel like ...

The researchers showed it’s possible to influence dream content, a key step toward proving that REM sleep dreams may help ...

Perovskite solar cells are seen as the future of renewable energy because they can be very efficient and low-cost. But the ...

Most of us think about weight in terms of clothes, mirrors, or maybe blood sugar and cholesterol. But very few of us connect ...

Findings suggest this part of Greenland is highly sensitive to modest warming, with implications for future retreat.