WASHINGTON — You’ve likely heard it since childhood: Don’t scratch that bug bite or rash, you’ll make it worse. But why would ...

We’re just beginning to decode this faint optical “signature of life” and what it could reveal about health, disease, and the ...

A lot of things can cause itchiness, sometimes serious diseases. Whatever the cause, doctors have long warned that scratching too much can damage the skin. Now researchers better understand why even a ...

There's something almost uncanny about walking into a science classroom and being able to gauge, within the first five ...

A slew of start-ups and academic labs are leaning on AI agents and bots, rather than humans, to speed up their chemistry ...

On the eve of the 250th anniversary of America's founding, thought leaders, politicans and historians reflect on the origins ...

Researchers have developed a self-driving chemistry lab that can autonomously search through hundreds of catalyst recipes and ...

Developing new medicines can require thousands of chemistry experiments to identify the right recipe for a safe, effective ...

Developing new medicines can require thousands of chemistry experiments to identify the right recipe for a safe, effective and ideally affordable drug.

So it’s perhaps unsurprising that in the 250 years following its birth, the US grew into one of the world’s scientific ...