Drier, less predictable environment may have spurred human evolution

Evidence of a variable but progressively drying climate coincides with a major shift in stone-tool-making abilities…

Salt: Mover and shaker in ancient Maya society

Salt is essential for life. As ancient civilizations evolved from hunters and gatherers to agrarian societies,…

Nobel Prize in Economics 2018

The 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is being awarded…

Smallest integrated Kerr frequency comb generator

Optical frequency combs can enable ultrafast processes in physics, biology, and chemistry, as well as improve…

Neoadjuvant combination checkpoint blockade trial yields high response rates for patients with high-risk stage three melanoma

Combination checkpoint blockade before surgery (neoadjuvant therapy) produced a high response rate among patients with high-risk…

Mystery of Saturn’s moon Titan’s atmospheric haze

Experiments have helped scientists to zero in on a low-temperature chemical mechanism that may help to…

When yesterday’s agriculture feeds today’s water pollution

Water quality is threatened by a long history of fertilizer use on land, scientists find.

Copper ions flow like liquid through crystalline structures

Materials scientists have sussed out the physical phenomenon underlying the promising electrical properties of a class…

Getting a grip on the slow but unique evolution of sharks

Scientists have decoded the whole genomes of two shark species for the first time and improved…

There’s a better way to decipher DNA’s epigenetic code to identify disease

A new method for sequencing the chemical groups attached to the surface of DNA is paving…