In this interview, Professor James J. Collins, founder of the field of Synthetic Biology, discusses his journey to founding ...

Scientists have created an artificial RNA system that can copy itself using simple building blocks and temperature changes.

Climate change left its signature on the atmosphere early in the industrial revolution, reveals a thought experiment ...

Marine scientists have long marveled at how animals like fish and seals swim so efficiently despite having different shapes.

On the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Abbey Road came in higher than any other Beatles album, at Number Five. It’s got classics like “Come Together,” “Here Comes the Sun,” ...

The Tulane team has developed a handful of other assays for TB detection, including mass spec test for paucibacillary TB that is being commercialized by Nanopin Tech, and a non-sputum CRISPR-based lab ...

Kits sold directly to consumers to check a variety of health metrics provide little value when it comes to guiding health ...

Cornell researchers have found a new and potentially more accurate way to see what proteins are doing inside living cells - using the cells' own components as built-in sensors.

You may think you know static electricity, but its true nature has long eluded scientists. We’ve now made a huge leap towards ...

The Los Angeles County wildfires unleashed all kinds of contaminants once locked away in paints, plastics and elsewhere.

Emerging ‘co-scientist’ systems use teams of chatbots to mimic the deliberations of a research group. Do they really help?

The Academy Tech Lab can spawn in a variety of locations around the map, but there is always one guaranteed location — ...