Vishnu Kannan had just begun learning math as an early elementary school student in Howard County when his older brother came to him with a math problem. If he could solve it, he’d earn a dozen ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

By converting plastic waste into a microbe-friendly food source, scientists have built an upcycling pipeline that turns the waste into a variety of useful products. The findings are detailed in the ...

In 1921, Otto Loewi woke from a dream with the idea for an experiment that proved nerves communicate using chemicals, not just electricity. By showing that stimulating one frog’s heart released a ...

A new ultrathin photodetector from Duke University can sense light across the entire electromagnetic spectrum and generate a ...

On Friday, Feb. 27, the sun was shining and students in matching gray hats walked around the Detroit Zoo. To the naked eye, the small groups of children walking around with their chaperones would seem ...

Experiments on animals (“in vivo” experiments) have long been the norm for learning about human health and disease, because testing on live animals enables researchers to investigate how chemicals, ...

The tiny bots follow patterns of light and "artificial space-time," navigating like craft following the curved space around a black hole.