New research uses AlphaFold and artificial intelligence to accelerate the design and synthesis of a drug to treat hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common type of primary liver cancer. It is the first successful application of AlphaFold to hit identifi…

Black swallowwort is a difficult to control invasive vine that thrives in natural areas and perennial cropping systems across northeastern North America. To date, though, no scientific studies have been conducted to determine how the weed responds to common c…

Physicist and code specialist Dr. Sandipan Mohanty has been working on molecular biology simulations for the world's fastest supercomputers for 20 years. Together with researchers at Sweden's Lund University, he has now gone one step further and taken the pro…

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Sky brightness is increasing even faster than satellite measurements of artificial light suggest, says a new study.

Monitoring biodiversity distribution is made easy with this drone that autonomously lands on tree branches to collect DNA samples.

The closest New Moon for 992 years is expected to cause exceptionally high tides early next week that could could serious flooding in coastal areas.

Shrunken seashells and unusually dark sediment cores have helped geoscientists better understand the chronology and character of events that led to Ocean Anoxic Event 2, nearly 100 million years ago.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Light pollution caused by the incessant nighttime glow of electric lights appears to be intensifying, according to research using observations from tens of thousands of people at various locations around the world.

A team of researchers from the University of Texas have discovered something unexpected in new data collected last July by the James Webb Space telescope: ba...

Aussie Ark in Australia administered the first health checks for the endangered Tasmanian devil joeys. RELATED: Spanish archeologists uncover ancient crocodi...

The first person to call me doctor changed the course of my career. My fleeting encounter with Mary will be one of many transient ties that ultimately sustain a lifetime in health care. Like many patients, hers was an uneventful hospital stay. She had recover…

Menelaos Raptis, a young student from Thessaloniki, Greece has become the newest member of the NASA research team.

The animals crouch and sprint to take standing up in their stride.

ALMA scientists used the unique hydrogen radio recombination lines on MWC 349A to reveal hidden collimated jets. While using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to study the masers around oddball star MWC 349A scientists discovered somethi…

A high-altitude telescope in Chile allows for clear view of night sky

Bacillus subtilis eliminated most S. aureus in the gut, and without harming microbiome

Microscopic tractor beams have been in use for years. Now a team of researchers demonstrates a macroscopic tractor beam for the first time.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, Bhavya Lal, associate administrator for Technology, Policy, and Strategy, as well as other agency speakers, will participate in the 2023 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)…

A Chinese launch startup has performed hot fire tests as part of development of a planned reusable stainless-steel rocket inspired by SpaceX’s Starship.

RESEARCHERS believe they have finally solved a 500-year-old “paradox” by Leonardo da Vinci. There are many things in the world of science that have perplexed scientists for decades. One…

In salt water solutions, water molecules rapidly move around salt ions at a scale of more than a trillion times a second, according to both experiments and simulations led by scientists at New York University and the Sorbonne.

Alaska man can see the Northern Lights from his doorstep

Have you ever wondered what exists beyond the Milky Way? Astronomers now have answers.

It's not at every university that laser pulses powerful enough to burn paper and skin are sent blazing down a hallway. But that's what happened in UMD's Energy Research Facility, an unremarkable looking building on the northeast corner of campus. If you visit…