Polyethylene is the most produced plastic on Earth, and nearly all of it begins its life at a single reactive...

Modern cars are, in essence, rolling computer networks. Dozens of electronic control units, or ECUs, chatter constantly over the Controller...

Every strength coach knows the feeling of watching bar speed die mid-set. A lifter starts a set of ten back...

Optical fibers carry the overwhelming majority of the world’s data, and engineers are running out of easy ways to squeeze...

When researchers ask patients to log their symptoms every single day for eight weeks, they are asking for something far...

Deep beneath the shells of the Pacific oyster, a quiet revolution has been caught in the act. Scientists in China...

Tomato growers battling bacterial wilt and speck may soon have a new tool that works in two directions at once....

A team of researchers from Thailand and China has engineered a new family of photocatalytic films that destroy stubborn dye...

Influenza A(H1N1) remains one of the most persistent threats to global public health, responsible for seasonal epidemics and, on occasion,...

Parkinson’s disease has long been described in terms of its most visible features: the tremor, the slowed movement, the shuffling...

Forensic scientists in China have developed a compact genetic testing panel that can pick out the faint genetic signature of...

Every time a viral video explodes across social media, a hidden race begins inside the world’s wireless networks. Millions of...

In the semi-arid highlands of northern Ethiopia, where livestock sustain thousands of farming households and rainfall has grown increasingly unreliable,...

A simple urine test could one day tell doctors which children with a blocked kidney need surgery and which can...

Pelvic organ prolapse is one of the most common yet least discussed conditions in women’s health, affecting roughly half of...

Obstructive sleep apnea, a disorder in which the upper airway repeatedly collapses during sleep, affects hundreds of millions of people...

In the calm, shallow waters off Australia’s Gold Coast, scientists have witnessed something that has never before been scientifically documented:...

A much-anticipated experimental therapy designed to shield the kidneys from the damage inflicted by open heart surgery has fallen short...

A drop of deer dung may soon do the work of a dart gun, a helicopter survey and a laboratory...

Why do some mothers behave aggressively toward their offspring while others of the same species remain remarkably tolerant? For decades,...