Sticks and stones may break your bones, but this reaction edits skeletons

Since Friedrich Wohler synthesized urea (by accident) back in 1828, chemical synthesis—and organic synthesis for that—has…

The enigma of bronze age tin

The origin of the tin used in the Bronze Age has long been one of the…

How new loops in DNA packaging help us make diverse antibodies

Diversity is good, especially when it comes to antibodies. It’s long been known that a gene…

Land restoration in Latin America shows big potential for climate change mitigation

Land restoration in Latin America and the Caribbean is picking up pace and scaling up projects…

Communities that Care prevention system helps to protect youth

Students in Pennsylvania school districts that participated in Communities that Care (CTC) coalitions were significantly less…

Researchers find waterhemp has evolved resistance to four herbicide sites of action

A research study featured in the journal Weed Science provides worrisome new details about the evolution…

Environmental pollution in China decreases

For decades pollution in China has paralleled economic growth. But this connection has been weakened in…

A molecular string phone at work

Researchers from the Department of Atomically Resolved Dynamics of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure…

NASA's WFIRST will help uncover the universe's fate

Scientists have discovered that a mysterious pressure dubbed “dark energy” makes up about 68% of the…

Feds finalize plan to open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling

The Trump administration announced Thursday its final plan to open Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to…