As the global population grows, the pressure to produce nutritious food more efficiently continues to increase. At the same time, food manufacturing ...

Managing heat efficiently inside solid materials is essential for developing faster, more reliable electronics. Until now, a wave-based form of heat ...

Four of Google’s top AI researchers are leaving to start their own company, and Google is backing them on the way out. Jeff Dean, ...

Linus Pauling was one of the most brilliant scientists of the 20th century. He won two Nobel prizes and transformed our understanding of chemical bonds ...

What allows people to keep working toward a goal when the challenge becomes more demanding? Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have identified a ...

Dark matter is usually described as an invisible substance that responds only to gravity. But scientists are now exploring a more complex possibility: dark ...

The Galápagos Islands have long been one of the most important places in the study of evolution. When Charles Darwin visited the islands in 1835 aboard the ...

That question is at the center of a new paper published in Nature Astronomy, where researchers examine the often-overlooked problem of "false negatives" in ...

Untreated cavities send thousands of young children in the United States to emergency departments each year. Because hospital doctors usually cannot repair ...

Scientists led by UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography are warning that oxygen is disappearing rapidly from oceans and freshwater systems, ...