Research and development

"The deep mantle is a weird place with mysterious features..."

"We want to characterize stars that are similar to our own solar system, because that's our best guess as to what other planetary systems might have life."

More accurate predictions about the methane cows produce could help in the fight against climate change.

Researchers have developed a straightforward way to make a type of conducting polymers with high surface area—called “nanoflowers”—potentially useful for energy transfer and storage.

New discovery suggests that all life may share a common design principle.

As part of an effort to identify distant planets hospitable to life, NASA has established a crowdsourcing project in which volunteers search telescopic images for evidence of debris disks around stars, which are good indicators of exoplanets.

Taking antibiotic drugs may make us more susceptible to other infections down the road, a new study with mice suggests.

Scientists knew some trees clean up pollution from soil, but new research shows that the process isn't a one life-form job after all.

While most exploding stars burst and the slowly fade, these do something more mysterious.

Worry about the extra travel time might keep you from walking or biking to work, but it might not take as long as you think.

Insight into how plants make cellulose could lead to a better understanding of how to break it down for renewable fuels.

The debut novel of Justin Torres, assistant professor of English at UCLA, has been translated into 15 languages and was recently adapted into a film of the same name.

"Large mobile predators such as sharks may be a very important source of nutrients for even the smallest reef creatures, such as corals."

Science-fiction-like devices that could detect viruses or cancer in blood or sniff out traces of chemical weapons could be a reality thanks to a new discovery with sensors.

Helium "was always considered to be unreactive—the element that doesn't react with anything." Not so, say researchers.