To help reduce the misuse and misunderstanding of current science, scientific research needs to be explained in language the public can understand.

Terms once only used in academic circles are increasingly being used on social media. But that also flattens their meaning, ...

The Georgia carpet industry’s long use of PFAS, known as forever chemicals, polluted drinking water and the environment across swaths of the South.

The meaning of life has puzzled philosophers for millennia, but new research suggests it could be as simple as lending a helping hand ...

The students were visiting Duke researchers as part of a science communication class run by Amy Sheck, a teacher and Dean of Science at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM). A ...

Researchers mimicked the air-trapping tricks of diving bell spiders to create aluminum that stays afloat—even when punctured ...

Premenopausal women presenting with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are a unique and often underrecognized patient population. Although they are traditionally considered at lower cardiovascular risk ...

Life on Earth may have started with a molecule that still runs our cells today. As researchers probe ribonucleic acid in the lab and in ancient rocks and space dust, RNA is yielding clues that are far ...