Safeguarding the legitimacy of scientific advice in an era of “fake news”

Rather than sending water samples to laboratories and waiting days for results, this new test can be administered locally to obtain answers within hours

More than 40 years after the first initiatives were taken to ban the use of PCBs, the chemical pollutants remain a deadly threat

Findings suggest long-lasting protection and provide reassurance for women

Engineers make white paint whiter and cooler by removing white pigment and invent a polymer coating with nano-to-microscale air voids 

Cell runs on glucose from body fluids

Experiments show shifting ripple patterns can signal times of environmental flux

Unlike most commercially available tests, it can detect levels below EPA standards

DEET, thought to be the most effective insect repellent available, may not be an insect repellent at all.

People whose noses are rich in Staphylococcus bacteria had more severe nasal symptoms than cold sufferers who have less staph

A new approach promises to forecast cultivar resistance much earlier than was possible before: at seedling stage

The new findings defy previous beliefs that tectonic plates were developed over the course of billions of years