“I wanted to make it possible for anyone – from local authorities to everyday water users – to run rapid, easy-to-use tests ...

The origin of life is surely one of the most important questions in biology. How did inanimate molecules give rise to the ...

New options for testing and treating some of the most common sexually transmitted diseases are becoming available.

Organs often have fluid-filled spaces called lumens, which are crucial for organ function and serve as transport and delivery ...

Enzymes are the molecular machines that power life; they build and break down molecules, copy DNA, digest food, and drive ...

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ...

In October 2001 a Los Angeles County grand jury indicted Saldivar on six counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.

In a redeeming development for one of nature’s most universally denounced pests, researchers from McGill and Drexel ...

MaverickX, which was born in San Antonio and is moving to Austin this year, is built on a bacterium that dissolves rock as a new means of extracting minerals.

Self-administered HPV tests involve inserting a plastic tube — similar to a tampon — into the vagina, then twisting the ...

China creates ingestible, luminous microspheres that detect intestinal bleeding and are retrieved with a magnet, a ...