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Of all the species that have populated Earth at some time over the past 3.5 billion years, more than 95% have vanished — many of them in spectacular die-offs called […]

Materials scientists are creating next-generation mixtures with remarkable properties.

Researchers at Tsinghua University in Beijing have created a mirror-image version of a protein that performs two of the most fundamental processes of life: copying DNA and transcribing it into […]

Silicone polymer mimics youthful elasticity of skin.

Machine-learning approach mines unpublished ‘dark’ reactions that don’t work, as well as ones that do.

Ambitious effort depends on transformation of rhino tissue into sperm and egg cells.

The microbiologist spent years moving labs and relishing solitude. Then her work on gene-editing thrust her into the scientific spotlight.

Molecule that controls flowering time misfolds when expressed in yeast.

Fossils found in the Panama Canal are the oldest evidence of monkeys in North America.