Scientists are problem solvers. They devise ways to tap new resources for building electric vehicles and to track stealth movements of environmental contaminants. Scientists are also detectives.

In the book ‘Night Magic,’ Leigh Ann Henion writes of encounters with salamanders, bats, glowworms and other life-forms nurtured by darkness.

A long-standing idea of why lithium ion batteries die focuses on lithium movement into the cathode. Instead, hydrogen may be to blame.

Brain scans revealed that teenagers with larger attention-driving networks were more likely to develop depression.

Some sea robins have taste buds on their six crablike legs that help the fish ferret out prey buried in sand as they walk.

New maps of wind impacts beyond Helene’s ‘cone of uncertainty’ track highlight how a hurricane’s power extends far inland.

Burying wood can store carbon for thousands of years, according to an analysis of an ancient log unearthed in Canada.

Cosmological data suggest unexpected masses for neutrinos, including the possibility of zero or negative mass.

A DNA analysis of the kefir cheese, first found about 20 years ago on 3,600-year-old mummies in China, confirms its age and pinpoints its origins.

A drug called bumetanide, which is used to treat edema in people, reduced this cellular swelling and resulting cell death in mice. Mice given the drug after an injury were better able to move their ...

When inhaled, metals left by the shrinking lake could cause inflammation. Experts say more studies are needed to understand the impact.