This new scientific breakthrough hints at a future cryosleep. Andrey Popov – stock.adobe.com In the brain, those connections ...

The distinctive smell of ancient mummies is helping scientists decode the secrets of Egyptian mummification. By analyzing tiny traces of chemicals in the air around mummy samples, researchers ...

A new solvent-based technique could change how lithium is extracted from brines, potentially making the process faster, ...

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have developed a new way to alter complex drug molecules using light rather than ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

A ring of 13 carbon atoms and two chlorine atoms has a remarkable molecular structure that means you would have to go around the loop four times to return to your starting position ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new way to determine atomic structures from nanocrystals previously considered unusable, ...

In a second appeal, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s summary judgment of noninfringement based on an implicit ordering of steps in a method claim after ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Urban Science founder Jim Anderson is stepping down from ...

What Noubar Afeyan eloquently describes in his Jan. 29 op-ed, in defense of the scientific method, “Science at risk: Massachusetts must lead the fight for facts,” is what fascism looks like, plain and ...

According to recent estimates, over two million people are currently in recovery in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) worldwide. This includes about 1.5 million people in the U.S. and over 500,000 people ...

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