A virtual biotech run by AI agents combed past drug trials and found that drugs with narrowly active targets were more likely to succeed.

In 2015, ESA astronaut Tim Peake carried rocket seeds to the International Space Station, launching a groundbreaking research ...

The difficult "homework" left behind by NewtonWe hear about Isaac Newton's "Law of Universal Gravitation" in school science ...

Water-rock chemistry helped methane-producing microbes survive extreme alkaline conditions modeled on Enceladus’s hidden ...

From searching for micro-cold trap ice to exploring underground lava tubes and testing space-made materials, NASA is laying ...

This week, more than any individual "major discovery," it was impressive to see the expansion of scientific exploration ...

A droplet of salty water full of DNA strands added, multiplied and divided numbers by settling into the right answer as it ...

Enceladus is covered in ice, but that layer might hide a subsurface ocean. Researchers have long wondered if the salty body ...

A humble elevator shaft was recently used in a test of the constancy of the speed of light. Credit: Jason Wong/Flickr, CC ...

A statewide initiative pairs climate-focused coursework with community service – and is spreading to other states ...

Is there life elsewhere, or is Earth unique in the universe? This is one of humanity's great unanswered questions. One way to approach this mystery is to investigate how life began here on Earth. Our ...

NASA is set to launch SpaceX’s Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station on Thursday for a long-duration science ...