Major depression is not only a crisis of mood, it is also a crisis of biology that reshapes the brain itself. As genetic tools sharpen, scientists are now tracing how inherited risk for depression is ...

Brookings Institution's report details the best ways to minimize risk and utilize benefits of AI for students.

The origin of life from Earth's primordial chemistry has long fascinated and perplexed us. Generations of scientists have endeavored to understand how complex biochemistry developed from organic ...

Sukaina Shivji, Laura Zhang and Darina Andriychenko Leonenko have been named recipients of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 ...

Biological invasions are increasing globally and are a primary threat to native ecosystems. Declines in native biodiversity due to invaders, including ...

Advances in synthetic biology, planetary engineering, and ultra-low-cost launch systems have dramatically altered how ...

Burrowing shrimp are a well-documented native pest species in Willapa Bay that have been a nuisance to bottom-culture ...

Mukesh Bansal has partnered with ex-Google top executive Peeyush Ranjan to foray into edtech with the launch of new startup ...

Getting a new herbicide approved may take 12 to 15 years and cost over $300 million, and that is just for the successful herbicides. The last new herbicide modes of action occurred about 40 years ago, ...

Scott Shaw, a University of Wyoming entomology professor, recently contributed to a comprehensive new book on Darwin wasps, insects that have a vital role in agriculture.

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about the behavior or nature and evolution. Now, USC researchers want to add a ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...