science

A new study finds that bacteria develop antibiotic resistance up to 100,000 times faster when exposed to the world's most widely used herbicides, Roundup...

For the first time, physicists have built a unique topological insulator in which optical and electronic excitations hybridize and flow together. They report their...

With today's technology, we can 3-D-print sculptures, mechanical parts, prosthetics, even guns and food. But a team of University of Utah biomedical engineers have...

This is a nearly complete skeleton of Sarahsaurus aurifontanalis; the only major missing piece is the skull. Paleontologist Adam Marsh used this skeleton and...

World energy consumption projections predict that coal will remain one of the world's main energy sources in coming decades, and a growing share of...

Scientists at Yokohama National University and the University of Tokyo in Japan have designed an ion gel with excellent toughness and an ability to...

Chemists at The Ohio State University have developed a new and improved way to generate molecules that can enable the design of new types...

What happens when a new technology is so precise that it operates on a scale beyond our characterization capabilities? For example, the lasers used...

University of Michigan researchers have developed a powerful microscope that can map how light energy migrates in photosynthetic bacteria on timescales of one-quadrillionth of...

Since the 2003 discovery of the single-atom-thick carbon material known as graphene, there has been significant interest in other types of 2-D materials as...

The cost of making plastics, paints, coatings for cell phone screens and other materials that heal themselves like skin could be dramatically reduced thanks...