“We know that women are underrepresented in fields whose members believe you have to be brilliant to succeed,” explains study's lead author

Scientists develop a portable device with an advanced sensor array that can identify liquors and determine if they'd been altered, offering a strategy for liquor quality assurance

Engineered probiotics can target and kill colorectal cancer cells in the presence of a substance found in some vegetables

Biologists at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a method for rapidly screening hundreds of thousands of potential drugs for fighting infection

Scientists at the Keck School of Medicine of USC use enzymes responsible for marine animal bioluminescence to help researchers test whether cancer immunotherapies work

Recent study demonstrates the benefits of the new highly diluted alloy of platinum in copper—a single atom alloy—in making useful chemicals from small hydrocarbons

Technology provides alternative to herbicides, hand-weeding

Research overturns previous understanding of what general anesthetics do to the brain

Cancer cells can be destroyed more effectively and selectively with a unique new reusable treatment, activated with a substance found in stinging nettles and ants 

Genetic evidence helping match confiscated rhinoceros horns to crime scenes—already used in scores of successful prosecutions

"The bees are not only not avoiding this fungicide, they're consuming more of it at certain concentrations," researcher says

What impact may legalization of recreational marijuana in Oregon have on teen marijuana use?