Most vaccines work like a “wanted” poster. They show the immune system a specific feature of a microbe so it can recognize ...

The woman, who lived about 2,500 years ago, was around 25 to 30 years old at the time of her death. Archaeologists found her lying on her side on a wooden bed inside a larch log burial chamber. She ...

Prices for popular high-capacity hard drives in Europe have risen by as much as 60% in just four months, with an average ...

During the development phase, the team also tested prompts asking candidates to describe a past time they had authority over ...

Statistical analysis reveals ancient bone carvings hold complex information rivaling early Mesopotamian scripts.

A new paper provides the first statistically derived estimate of bee species richness around the world. But this is about more than bees.

For much of modern biology, scientists argued that viruses are not alive, pointing to a basic limitation: they cannot make proteins on their own and must depend entirely on the cells they infect for ...

At any given moment, 89,000 terawatts of raw solar power is slamming into the Earth’s atmosphere. It is a mind-boggling amount of energy. But right now, our best technologies are essentially trying to ...

Among the most feared are the so-called ESKAPE pathogens, a rogues’ gallery of microbes that “escape” many treatments and drive stubborn hospital-acquired infections. One of them, Acinetobacter ...

That doesn’t make the effort futile. It places it in context. Bio-based foams represent one strategy among many: redesign packaging, reduce unnecessary cushioning, regulate the worst offenders, and ...