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 ...

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

You scratched that bug bite and now it's a big itchier bump. Some science explains why scratching really can make things ...

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

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

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.

“In an open-pit uranium mine in the southeastern part of the Gabon Republic, near the Equator on the coast of West Africa, ...

Robots and AI are running experiments around the clock, from battery chemistry to cancer therapies. But can they be trusted ...

The surprising discovery of mysterious blobs inside our cells is revolutionising our understanding of how life works, and how ...

Barry Sharpless and his team first popularised the concept of ‘clicking’ two molecules together back in 2001 – 25 years ago this month. The review paper that launched a new field has now been cited ...