One ocean-dwelling creature found in tropical waters is known to be able to reverse its own life cycle, cheating death. The jellyfish, Turritopsis dohrnii, was first discovered in 1883, but it was ...

Living cells pay a hidden energy price not just to run chemical reactions, but to keep them on track and block all the ...

A new JSTAT study shows how to compute the minimum energy cells use to sustain certain metabolic pathways while suppressing ...

The claim is ubiquitous: if we’re to meet our climate goals, we need a mass buildout of renewable energy production. But this ...

Anyone who fantasizes about the new and improved version of themselves that awaits on the other side of the ball drop can relate to the special blend of optimism and self-criticism that the New Year ...

Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to disprove the quantum mechanical principle of complementarity put forth by ...

A “vampire” woman with a rare case of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome triggered by the sun has revealed how she copes knowing that just 30 seconds of UV exposure would leave her hospitalized. Although Emily ...

Ms. Chozick, a former New York Times reporter, is the author of the forthcoming novel “With Friends Like You.” Back in 2005, when I was recently out of college and new to New York, one of my closest ...

A 2007 photo of Marty Reisman, who loosely inspired Timothée Chalamet's character in Marty Supreme Neville Elder / Corbis via Getty Images Marty Reisman, one of the world’s top table tennis players in ...

President Trump recently announced a new youth athletic competition to celebrate the upcoming 250th anniversary of the United States. While Trump seems proud of inaugurating these new “Patriot Games,” ...

Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, was walking through the Dadès Valley in the Central High Atlas Mountains of Morocco when she saw something ...

Scientists have created a new way to watch plants breathe—live and in high definition—while tracking exactly how much carbon ...