It seems like every day a new study finds tiny plastic particles called microplastics where they should not be: in our bodies ...

Studying and designing novel materials is a central application of quantum mechanics. Chemists, materials scientists, and ...

The words on this page mean something because they are assembled in a particular order and follow the complex rules of ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WBCD) — Charleston Waterkeeper has opened a first-of-its-kind Community Science Lab, inviting residents, ...

On the windowsill of a science laboratory high above the clamor of the Harvard Medical School campus, tidy rows of sunflower, avocado, and lemon plants bask in the afternoon sun. Every day, scientists ...

What does a scientist look like? A bright-eyed intellectual donning a white lab coat and goggles? Often, yes. But these days, they could take on the look of a stack of computer servers softly humming ...

Tucked beneath snow-capped mountains in Montana, the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory is unlike any other lab in the country. It's where scientists are starting fires to better understand how they ...

Kelly Chibale says that the hunt for new drugs is kind of like a fairy-tale quest. And it takes a lot of time and patience.

Proposals include transferring a supercomputer to the University of Wyoming and shifting a space weather lab to a private ...

New Heights Charter School of Brockton opened its first science lab, offering students hands-on STEM learning opportunities.

Hopkins experts warn that dismantling the nation's premiere weather-forecasting resource, NCAR, would leave us more vulnerable to the effects of extreme weather events ...