New material opens the door to low-cost, environmentally friendly energy use.

New endowed professorship and research collaboration will focus on regenerative medicine. 

SelectScience has announced the winners of the Scientists’ Choice Awards and the launch of its new website during a special ceremony held at the Pittcon 2015 Conference and Expo.

The “information loss paradox” in black holes — a problem that has plagued physics for nearly 40 years — may not exist.

In lab and mouse experiments, cigarette smoke helps drug-resistant bacteria fight off the immune system.

Advances enhance performance of mass spectrometers.

Poor performance in STEM courses, low focus on STEM coursework in first year contributes to students switching majors.

The National Science Foundation has awarded the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves $14.5 million over a five-year period to create and operate a Physics Frontiers Center aimed at using radio timing observations of pulsars with the Green Bank Telescope and Arecibo Observatory to detect and study low-frequency gravitational waves.

Inflated sense of personal knowledge may have negative effects, study concludes.

An Ebola whole virus vaccine, constructed using a novel experimental platform, has been shown to effectively protect monkeys exposed to the often fatal virus.

University of Adelaide researchers have shown there are two critical windows during the developmental pathway to adulthood when exposure to junk food is most harmful, particularly for female offspring.

When we drive past sunny fields of grapes, we might think we're seeing how they’re doing—but much more is going on invisible to the human eye: vines and roots teeming with bacteria, viruses and fungi that all impact how those grapes will grow.