Marine plastic debris is an olfactory trap for seabirds

Scientists have developed a type of HIV test on a USB stick

Mothers smoking in pregnancy, children skipping breakfast and not having a regular bedtime or sufficient sleep all appear to be important factors in predicting whether a child will become overweight or obese

Researchers have developed a way to produce the tools for figuring out gene function faster and cheaper than current methods

Scientists can now grow 3-D models of various organs from stem cells, creating new ways to study disease

The first perovskite solar cells could go on the market next year, and some have been reported to capture 20 percent of the sun’s energy

An epidemiological analysis of data from 1,685 adult Americans finds that regular consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, but not diet soda, is associated with increased risk of prediabetes and increased insulin resistance

The researchers found that the sedentary mice lost structures that are important in the auditory system—hair cells and strial capillaries—at a much higher rate than their exercising counterparts

Scientists have now for the first time identified a sub-region in the brain that works to form a particular kind of memory: fear-associated with a specific environmental cue or “contextual fear memory”

Neutrinos from the sun carry information about its fiery core but they are extremely hard to detect. Now, Stanford researchers may have found a much easier and less expensive way to study these elusive particles