Biotechnology could help the US break China’s monopoly on the minerals used in clean energy technologies

The origin of chirality in asymmetric autocatalysis is due to carbon isotope substitution.

Francis Halzen honored for work on IceCube Neutrino Observatory, used to discover ghostly particles from far off universe

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 was awarded to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”

Menopause is an important biological transition with up to 72 symptoms that shapes aging trajectories across organs and encompasses ~40% of the female lifespan. Although menopause awareness is increas...

The 20 fellowship recipients across the arts, humanities and sciences will each receive an $800,000, no-strings-attached stipend for their work.

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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Orangutans expand their foraging skills by combining observation with trial-and-error learning

Cultural learning permeates human skill and knowledge acquisition. To understand its importance for nonhuman apes, we analyzed just under 7000 records of behavioral bouts of social and individual lear...

Second-generation C-to-N swap turns the first generation’s failure into a feature

Despite recent proof-of-concept advances, aromatic carbon-to-nitrogen replacement reactions remain substrate specific and exhibit an overreliance on harsh oxidation methods that preclude their deploym...