Sponge-like nanoporous gold could be key to new devices for detecting disease-causing agents in humans and plants, say researchers.

As California wildfires burn tree canopies and forest floors, plants commonly found in more southern areas of the western United States are moving in.

Context is critical, not content: our memories must distinguish not just what happened and where, but when an event occurred—and what came before and after.

Chemists have developed a cheap way to convert cellulosic materials such as corn stalks and straw into gasoline-like fuels.

Growing up on the space shuttle weakens a key part of the immune system of fruit flies. t’s well established that spaceflight affects immune responses, says Deborah Kimbrell.