A life science company leaves a trail of public disclosures behind it.  Until recently, piecing that trail together took real ...

Brion Gysin (born John Clifford Brion Gysin) was born on January 19, 1916, in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England, and died in Paris on July 13, 1986. His father was a Swiss-Canadian army captain who was ...

A systematic repurposing pipeline identified uterus-selective tocolytics with efficacy in human myometrium and preclinical models.

It’s easy to take all the devices, tools, and equipment we use every single day for granted. Yet someone had to invent all the little things that make our lives run the way they do. In the case of the ...

A decomposable material from Kenya is gaining international attention, and it's made from water hyacinth. What makes the product so attractive is that it connects two environmental issues in a single ...

There’s only one place where you can get clones, time travel, simulated realities, irradiated and irritated giant lizards, and space fights and beyond. (Maybe not all at once, but we can dream.) ...

Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Simone Giertz started her career on YouTube building what she called “shitty robots”—deliberately flawed contraptions that made ...

The following is the first installment of Alex Hutchinson’s Sweat Science 101 newsletter series, a ten-part crash course on how to train, fuel, and recover. Sign up today. I’ve been writing the ...

Leaders and researchers from LLNL and Pacific Fusion stand beside Sirius during a celebration May 15 for the prototype’s 3,000-shot milestone at the lab. (Photo by Garry McLeod courtesy LLNL) The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. German anatomist Gunther von Hagens stands next to plastinated human bodies on display in the exhibition "Body Worlds and The ...

A Cold War-era law called the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951 allows U.S. government agencies to suppress patents deemed threats to national security, fueling decades of conspiracy theories about hidden ...