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

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

Traffic leaves more behind than exhaust. Every mile also grinds away tiny bits of tire rubber, and when one common tire ...

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.

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

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 ...

Rotaxanes are dumbbell-shaped mechanically interlocked molecules in which one or more ring-shaped molecules are threaded ...

A study led by biomedical scientist Erica Heinrich at the University of California, Riverside, highlights a critical gap in ...

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