Studying these cells could lead to new treatments for diseases ranging from gastrointestinal disease to diabetes.

Particles suspended in cooling water could prevent hotspots in nuclear plant cooling systems and electronics

Carbon nanotubes that detect nitric oxide can be implanted under the skin for more than a year.

Kristala Jones Prather engineers cells to produce useful compounds such as drugs and biofuels.

Chemists develop new way to kill cancer cells resistant to the chemotherapy drug cisplatin.

Dark matter, believed by physicists to outweigh all the normal matter in the universe by more than five to one, is by definition invisible. But certain features associated with dark matter might be detectable, according to some of the many competing theories describing this elusive matter.

New study shows that research investments and growing markets have fueled a huge rise in new patents