As the 17 members of Nicole Smith’s third-grade class settled in earlier this week, Bella Hennessey eyed the contents of the test tube at her work station. “It looks like vomit,” she said to her lab ...

Four University of Rhode Island researchers have developed and tested a cost-effective, easy-to-use tabletop device that can ...

BME PhD student will study point-of-care diagnostics, including how they can account for biomarkers and variations specific ...

Once a drug target is identified, it often takes decades until a chemical compound is developed that can hit the bullseye and ...

Scientists have recreated plasma fireballs in a lab to investigate the disappearance of certain gamma rays in space.

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University of Nebraska's drug design centre director is communicating his team's scientific breakthroughs with tattoos and ...

Deep within the world's oceans lurk marine bacteria armed with plastic-munching enzymes, their evolution seemingly sculpted ...

Home fertility tests could give people false hope – or unnecessary anxiety – about their chances of having a baby ...

As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for ...

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, a German physicist, is credited with the groundbreaking discovery of X-rays. Location: Physical ...

I mailed off a stool sample hoping for answers to my bloating and burnout. Here’s what I learned about gut health, ...