Picture a mouse taking rapid, staccato sniffs of a crumb it's found while foraging for food. Now compare that with a human leaning in for a single, deep inhale to gauge whether a cantaloupe is ripe.

From the lightbulb to the airplane, to medical breakthroughs and the internet age, the past 250 years have been defined by ...

From the air we breathe to the food we eat, we are constantly exposed to thousands of chemicals—yet how these exposures affect our health has remained surprisingly difficult to understand. A new study ...

In 'Science' commentary, JHU President Ron Daniels describes how the historical partnership between research universities and ...

Fourteen members of the University of Chicago faculty have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships.

For more than three decades, researchers studying genomes have relied on foundational resources such as Repbase and, more ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nitya Kumar, 25, an Adobe employee who lives in India. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I landed a product design role at ...

WHA’S like us, eh? Pretty much everybody as it turns out. What about clans? That’s just us, right? Well, yes. And what’s that other one?

Dima Romashin, Founder and CEO of Efferon, is a healthcare entrepreneur who has spent the past decade building the company ...

For decades, scientists suspected water secretly behaves like two different liquids. A new AI-powered study has finally ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation has selected five new teams to design experimental quantum technologies, from networks ...

The Industrial Internet of Things has made machines visible. It is now shifting the focus from collecting data to acting on ...