Month: July 2017

Badgers are more sociable than often thought, with implications for how they transmit disease, new…

Mutations that occur after conception play an important role in autism, suggests a new study…

One night three months ago, Rosa Castro finished her dinner, opened her laptop, and uncovered…

More children are living in high-poverty neighborhoods following the Great Recession — a troubling shift…

Engineers have dispelled a 100-year-old scientific law used to describe how fluid flows through rocks….

A new method that takes advantage of plasmonic metals’ production of ‘hot’ electrons and holes…

Scientists have teamed up to evaluate the tools used to probe the cancer genome. Their…

More than a third of Americans don’t get enough sleep, and growing evidence suggests it’s…

Scientists may be able to use self-assembly to design new materials with custom characteristics. Understanding…

Low-density materials, from laminate layers in airplane wings to foams and epoxies that cushion parts,…