President Donald Trump announced Monday that the US Food and Drug Administration will be notifying physicians that the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy “can be associated with a very increased ...

Brooke Sears fought for more than two years to get a PCOS diagnosis after doctors told her she just needed to lose weight. Now she is reflecting on the ways in which Nova Scotia's health-care system ...

Molecules are the building blocks of life and are the foundation of a multigenerational Iowa manufacturing business. Des Moines-based Kemin Industries is a $1.4 billion ingredient supplier run by the ...

In a Kraków apartment in 1903, Polish art collector Feliks Jasieński posed for a photograph wearing a samurai helmet and silk kimono – an image that would come to symbolise over a century of Polish ...

When we talk about microbiota, we usually think of the one inhabiting our gut. But there is another, less known and equally vital: the plant microbiota. In an article featured on the cover of Science, ...

Through photosynthesis, plants use sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into energy-rich carbon compounds such as glucose. These compounds not only sustain the plant's own growth and ...

Digital reconstruction of a partially crushed skull suggests new insight into Homo sapiens’ evolutionary relationship to Denisovans and Neandertals.

Cities across the U.S. are combining art with shade to shield people from rising temperatures and educate them about our warming world.

A paper published in PNAS in May describes work by External Professor Juan Pérez-Mercader and colleagues to create biochemistry-free self-assembling and reproducing ...

“The Role of Synthetic Biology in the Realization of the Bioeconomy” is the title of the talk that Carrie Eckert, leader of the Synthetic Biology Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will present ...

Physicist Arvind Murugan earns Schmidt Science Polymath award for work at intersection of physics, biology, computation and materials science ...