Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...

Neurons may get all the glory, but they would be nothing without glial cells. While brain cells do the heavy lifting in the nervous system, it's the glia that provide nutrients, clean up waste, and ...

Professor Jeffrey Grossman is on a mission to get students to think critically about materials they interact with every day.

Long persecuted alongside other large carnivores, the wolverine ( Gulo gulo) probably began its recovery in Norway and Sweden half a century ago, after both countries moved to protect the animal. That ...

In a study published in Science, researchers detailed how they used advanced language models to fast-forward evolution, simulating hundreds of millions of years of genetic changes ...

Light and electron microscopy have distinct limitations. Light microscopy makes it difficult to resolve smaller and smaller ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.

New research reveals that bacteria form species and maintain cohesion through frequent DNA exchange within species. This ...

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has named Fred Hutch Cancer Center postdoctoral researcher Grant King, PhD, a Hanna H.

Several faculty at the University of California, Davis, are among the recipients of presidential awards for excellence in STEM mentoring and research announced by the White House Jan. 13 and 14. The ...