The Millennium Seed Bank at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew marks its 25th anniversary. It stores over 2.5 billion wild plant seeds from around 40,000 species to guard against extinction. Opened in ...

The device helped people with an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration, which affects about 1 million people in ...

By shuttling silver and mercury between binding sites in DNA, scientists make the molecule switch conductance levels like a ...

Once a sperm has broken through to an egg cell in order to fertilize it, the two cells need to hold together tightly. This ...

Have you ever wondered about the groundbreaking moments and discoveries that shaped our modern lives? From how we communicate ...

Establishing National Quantum Laboratories. These national labs are a pretty big deal. They’re not just buildings; they’re ...

Federal funding has long played a crucial role in supporting research at Duke, a point underscored in a 1989 letter to the ...

Scientists have found that on Titan, substances that should remain separate can actually combine under freezing conditions.

Some scientists looking to preserve vulnerable species have turned to a controversial technique: synthetic biology. This ...

Every year, MIT Technology Review puts out a list of people under 35 who are doing really cool stuff with technology. It’s called the 35 Innovators Under 35, and it’s a big deal. These are the folks ...