Manu Prakash empowers communities through low cost scientific tools like his origami microscope, opening access to discovery ...

Shakespeare maintained a wide-ranging interest in different forms of “natural philosophy,” which combined what we now call ...

Doctors will examine data to better understand blood circulation in weightlessness. Ax-4 astronauts Peggy Whitson and Tibor ...

Engaging primary-school-age children with STEM will help them to think critically and develop informed opinions for the rest ...

It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants ...

A program to train Hazleton area students for careers in science, technology, electronics and mathematics is going to college ...

Researchers are developing promising suppression systems for painful conditions—even an app on your phone that turns the pain off.

Matt Hoffner has seen too many of Maine's promising life science startups leave the state to grow their companies. Entrepreneurs in the burgeoning industry reach a point where they've developed their ...

First devised by Zoltan Takats, a chemist and professor at Imperial College London, the technology consists of a needle-like ...

Salt water actually changes the properties of human skin in ways that explain why your face feels like leather after a day at ...

Asian needle ants, an invasive species making news around the country, were found in Providence in 2015, but there's no sign ...