Jessica Stoller-Conrad

Efforts to protect our skin from mosquitoes on a summer nigh may work for a while, but not forever.

Scientists have made synthetic structures out of DNA or protein before. Now, a team has created nanowires from a combination of the two.

A new “artificial leaf” system that uses solar energy to split water can safely and efficiently create hydrogen fuel.

DVDs and Blu-ray disks contain so-called phase-change materials that morph from one atomic state to another after being struck with pulses of laser light.

For the first time scientists have observed the dust contents of galaxies as seen just 1 billion years after the Big Bang.