After conventional wisdom seemed to make peanut allergies worse, a 15-year scientific journey led to “landmark” recommendations that now appear to be reducing their incidence.

By the late 1960s, commercial microwave ovens were small and inexpensive enough to become fixtures of the modern kitchen. And by the 1970s, scientists were starting to wonder just how this form of ...

Two decades ago, the mathematician Moon Duchin spent her summers teaching geometry at Mathcamp, a program for mathematically ...

According to Gary Wessel, a professor of biology at Brown, the “two targets” of hormonal birth control in women are the ovaries and the uterine lining for implantation. A hormone called ...

In 1916, a Polish scientist discovered how to create a mono-crystal, which later became the basis for integrated circuits and semiconductors.

A company’s plan to edit the genomes of human embryos worries some researchers — but it might reflect the changing attitudes ...

When you hear the term computer simulation, the first thing that pops into your mind is the bright, colorful graphics that ...

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and their collaborators have created one of the most comprehensive single cell maps of the developing human brain. The atlas captures nearly every cell type, ...

Scientists at UC San Diego have moved one step closer to unlocking a superpower held by some of nature’s greatest “masters of ...

Experts from Peec AI have analysed 100 million passwords from data breaches over the last six years to reveal the most common ...

Traditional search engines primarily work by indexing and retrieving webpages that are most relevant to a user’s keyword query. They provide a ranked list of links and the user is typically expected ...

At-home tests of the gut's microbiome are trending, but doctors say the technology is getting ahead of medical knowledge. In ...