Each year, the Department of Chemistry invites high school students to campus for STEM Day, where they learn from Brown University students and faculty about life in science, technology, engineering ...

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Rice University researchers have developed a two-step recycling method that pairs microwave-induced plasma with citric acid ...

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If NIH prioritizes human-based science in its ongoing overhaul of biosafety policies, the oversight system that has evolved for review of a wide-swath of biological research could atrophy and expose ...

The US penny has been around since 1793. Lamenting its passing is faintly obscene compared to other things that the US ...

In the journal Science Advances, scientists in Sweden and the U.S. report the first-ever direct observation of a type of ...

A 17-year-old whose science experiment led to a massive probe by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and hazardous materials response in his Irvine neighborhood broke his silence Tuesday, saying ...

Congratulations to Grace Wade for succeeding in her New Year’s resolution to run a half-marathon last year. I’m a little sceptical about some of the claims derived from countless PR-fodder surveys ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Everyone knows it's cold it is outside. The entire Philadelphia region has remained below freezing for the seventh day in a row, with little relief in sight. But we are tapping ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through science decades later. Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist and founder of ...