The ozone layer’s most famous wound opened over Antarctica, but the damage may have started much earlier, and somewhere else ...

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Microplastic pollution has become one of the defining environmental challenges of the Anthropocene because it does not stay ...

A deeper look at what one supercentenarian’s labs can teach us about aging, cholesterol, and what really matters for ...

A recent study suggests that a common chemical byproduct created by the breakdown of automobile tires might interfere with ...

Researchers have solved a long-standing mystery of how abnormal chromosomes drive cancer, identifying 81 new genes involved ...

Ammonia rarely makes headlines, but much of modern life depends on it. The compound of nitrogen and hydrogen is the key ingredient in the fertilizers that help feed roughly half of the world's ...

Self-propelled nanoparticles use tumor cell chemistry to find target proteins more efficiently and trigger their removal.

Sofinnova Partners, a leading European life sciences venture capital firm, today announced that its portfolio company Myricx Bio ("Myricx") has reached agreement to be acquired by Novartis, for up to ...

By analyzing data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Dutch astronomers have investigated a young, oxygen-rich supernova ...

A team of scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Cleveland Clinic and IBM has calculated nine molecular ...

Two-dimensional perovskites are often seen as leading candidates for future LEDs and solar cells ...