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 ...

The study, led by biologists at Harvard University found that the slugs build sac-like structures known as kleptosomes out of ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

They developed electric vans and scooters in the 1940s, invented a portable heart monitor and saved thousands of people ...

A team of researchers is tapping into the ocean’s vast body of free-floating environmental DNA to catch blooms before they ...

Zohran Mamdani, the presumptive winner of yesterday’s New York City mayoral primary, might provide some of the answers—to a point. Mamdani, a 33-year-old, relatively unknown state assemblyman, ran an ...