Preeclampsia, a complication of pregnancy that involves high blood pressure, could have led to a decline in Neanderthals' fertility, a new study suggests.

California-based fusion start-up Inertia Enterprises has raises $450m to commercialise laser-driven inertial fusion and build grid-scale power plants.

Casimir cavities are mysterious spaces between microscopic metal plates in a vacuum. Areas of diminished energy between the plates cause them to push toward each other, as if trying to fill the ...

Experiments reveal that unsaturated lipid membranes promote vesicle fusion and DNA retention during freeze–thaw cycles, highlighting icy environments as potential drivers of protocell evolution. Today ...

At UMass Lowell’s first International Day of Women and Girls in STEM event, Jan had the opportunity to pay that support forward. Standing beside her research poster at Alumni Hall, Jan explained to ...

Imaging science Ph.D. student Muhammad Akif Qadeer awarded Optica Foundation scholarship for his work in developing ultrafast ...

How will a warming Arctic affect plant growth on Svalbard? Researchers encased plant plots in a thick layer of ice during the ...

Supply is outstripping demand for life sciences, but AI and new biotech could help absorb some of the new space, according to ...

Valdez and his wife Ariana, another Learning Lab graduate, started dating at Fullerton College and now have three kids. He’s teaching his eldest daughter, 11-year-old Annemarie, to play golf and looks ...

For the first time, researchers in China have accurately quantified how chaos increases in a quantum many-body system as it evolves over time. Combining experiments and theory, a team led by Yu-Chen ...

Our contributor recalls going from never having met a practicing chemist in his life to becoming a leader in science, and the biggest leadership lessons he’s taken with him ...

Researchers have known for decades that different brands of lab machines produce different results. The fix is easy — but not ...