A normally land-based microbiologist sets sail to find the building blocks of novel antibiotics in marine bacteria.
A normally land-based microbiologist sets sail to find the building blocks of novel antibiotics in marine bacteria.
Inducing certain brain patterns extends non-REM sleep in mice.
Scotch tape and a scalpel provide a MacGyver-esque approach to microfabrication.
An Oregon teenager spent a summer in a New York biochemistry lab helping to discover a novel molecule that could become the next commercial nonaddictive painkiller.
Do-it-yourself science is likely as old as science itself, driven by an inherent curiosity about the world around us.
Fearless cockroach hunter Coby Schal investigates how insects communicate via chemical cues, then subverts those signals for pest control.
The global spread of dengue virus has immunologists and public-health experts debating the best way to curb infection.
Patients are sidestepping clinical research and using themselves as guinea pigs to test new treatments for fatal diseases. Will they hurt themselves, or science?