Plutonium has captured the attention of scientists since its discovery in the early 1940s. This enigmatic element has an important role to play in emerging energy technologies like nuclear batteries ...

A recent ruling takes a hammer to our constitutional order and empowers Trump above all else—including Congress.

[This is the first of a two-part article that examines both structural and processural paradigms of social theory. This argues that the structural-based theories cannot do what they claim to do; in ...

Researchers from the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and CIBER-BBN, in collaboration with teams from the University of Barcelona (UB) and the Institute of Chemical Research—cicCartuja ...

Critics slammed attempts by Google, Microsoft and Meta to speed up materials discovery. But behind the hype, there is progress.

A generative AI framework predicts stable antiferromagnets, identifying semiconductors and metals with properties suited for ultrafast spintronics and advancing systematic discovery of magnetic ...

Cell phone bans in K-12 institutions were a hot topic this back-to-school season. All 50 states and D.C. have instituted some version of a cell phone ban at the state or district level. These bans are ...

The Kenneth C. Griffin Pavilion at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is taking notes from the Apple Store—and "don'ts" from the airport.

Lithium-ion batteries power most electronics, but they have limited energy density—they can store only a certain amount of energy per mass or volume of the battery.

It’s Day 4 of the current government shutdown, and the Trump administration is threatening to use the moment to fire federal workers. In this episode, the Opinion columnists David French, Jamelle ...

A common soil fungus forms strong hydrogels that could inspire next-generation biomedical materials for tissue regeneration.