When UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna first began studying how bacteria fight virus infections, she had no idea it ...

When former President Trump signed the Great American Outdoors Act on August 4, 2020 it marked a rare pro-science moment in a presidency filled with anti-scientific rancor. With 59 senators from both ...

Physicist Jun Ye is ready to take on some of science’s most difficult questions at University of Colorado Boulder’s new quantum physics and engineering center. Physicist Jun Ye will lead a new center ...

Thinking about science and technology in terms of return on investment misses the point. Here’s what kids really need to know. No lightsaber ever came to be, but I’ve been teaching undergraduates ...

Telling people about the consensus among scientists can help, study finds, but researchers think that personal conversations are needed, too. Climate-communication researchers who spoke to Nature’s ...

Actions taken by the Trump administration have spurred changes at America's major science agencies — and if worst comes to worst, these shifts may jeopardize our understanding of how the brain works ...

Studying abroad is a fun, fulfilling, exciting experience. If you've never contemplated studying abroad as an undergraduate chemical science major, consider the following: Studying abroad can make you ...

Oreology: It's the science behind the "twist, lick, dunk." A group of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology dug deep into the science by devising an Oreometer, a device designed to ...

The study opens up new scenarios in the field of electronics. “Using simple and low-cost materials, , we can develop innovative applications such as physical, chemical or environmental sensors on any ...

A new article published in Nature Communications offers insight into how government planners can better account for the many ...