A tiny marine worm with no mouth, gut, or anus has helped overturn a long-standing assumption about how animals obtain...

On-chip lasers are moving from laboratory demonstrations toward technologies that could reshape coherent communications, advanced displays, precision sensing, imaging and...

Water is often described as the universal solvent, but that familiar label captures only part of its importance. In living...

Industrial wastewater could soon be treated with a material that is not only highly effective at capturing toxic lead, but...

A molecule that can be opened, closed, made to glow and even directed to form different products with different wavelengths...

Hydrogen is often described as a clean energy carrier, but producing it at the purity required for fuel cells, industrial...

A catalyst made from discarded fish bones could turn one of agriculture’s most persistent waste streams into a concentrated source...

An international team of astronomers has uncovered a previously hidden chapter in the life cycle of stars by observing fragments...

A new strategy could help transform aqueous zinc–iodine batteries from promising laboratory systems into practical large-scale energy-storage devices. In a...

New Carbon Nanotube Strategy Could Make Wearable Strain Sensors Last for Years Wearable strain sensors are rapidly moving from laboratory...