The creation of nanoscale computers for use in precision health care has long been a dream of many scientists and health care...
After decades of uncertainty, researchers have confirmed the existence of lunar carbon dioxide cold traps that could potentially...
Prions get mostly bad press, but they may be the keys to controlling protein synthesis in cells.
Refugees are on the move in forests across the western U.S. As climate conditions change, the ranges of tree species are shifting,...
A new study demonstrates that the naturally occurring warm-to-cold change in the tropical Pacific Ocean is the major cause for...
A Rice University undergraduate student's grit and talent paid off in a big way when she introduced the first synthesis of a...
A massive asteroid will whiz past the Earth on Saturday, but hold any thoughts of disaster movies.
Binary black hole mergers are fascinating cosmological events, which have been theorized to be the among the strongest sources...
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a portion of the reflection nebula IC 2631 that contains a protostar, the hot,...
When geologist Elizabeth Miller started mapping a fault system in Death Valley, she questioned the origin of some sedimentary...