Alcohol industry social responsibility schemes strengthen their own commercial interests while failing to reduce harmful alcohol use, according to a new worldwide study. Far from confirming industry c..

Scientists have shown how thalidomide analogs mediate degradation of many more proteins than previously anticipated. These proteins — zinc finger transcription factors — play a role in cancer and de..

Teachers felt immense pressure from school leaders and families to respond in a certain way — or not at all — in their classrooms following the 2016 presidential election, according to new research.

A new study quantifies for the first time how quickly rapid advancements in genomics may benefit patients. The research includes a five-year review of more than 300 epilepsy cases that showed about a ..

Separate studies explore why women are less likely to receive bystander CPR. A small survey found that people may worry that chest compressions by bystanders will seem improper or may hurt women. A vi..

The solar wind is not a calm summer breeze. Instead, it is a roiling, chaotic mess of turbulence and waves. There is a lot of energy stored in this turbulence, so scientists have long thought that it ..

Imagine building a machine so advanced and precise you need a supercomputer to help design it. That's exactly what scientists and engineers in Germany did when building the Wendelstein 7-X experi..

The cosmos is a void dotted with stars and an ever-increasing number of newly-observed planets beyond our solar system. Yet, how these stars and planets formed out of clouds of interstellar dust and g..

Antimatter is an exotic material that vaporizes when it contacts regular matter. If you hit an antimatter baseball with a bat made of regular matter, it would explode in a burst of light. It is rare t..

We all know microwaves are good for cooking popcorn, but scientists have recently shown they can also prevent dangerous waves in plasmas and help produce clean, nearly limitless energy with fusion. Fu..