A daily habit as common as a bacon sandwich at breakfast may carry outsized consequences for the roughly one in four adults ...

On the far right side of the periodic table, just beneath oxygen, sits a lesser-known group of elements called the chalcogens, or “ore-forming” elements. While sulfur is widely recognized for its role ...

Airborne genetic material can be used to paint a picture of ecosystem health, watch for invasive species and even identify ...

But some antibiotics may also push bacteria to release tiny particles that can make inflammation worse. While inflammation is part of the body’s natural defense against infection, too much ...

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have identified simple rules that explain how complex protein structures ...

A breakthrough experiment has shed new light on one of astrophysics’ biggest mysteries: the origin of rare proton-rich elements. For the first time, scientists directly measured a key reaction that ...