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The infamous case of Typhoid Mary underscores the importance of tolerance in understanding disease.

A new look at the reasons why organisms missing pairs of genes sometimes do much better than normal.

The cell is equipped with multiple redundancies in case something goes wrong. Researchers have begun to map these systems.

The absence of supersymmetry particles at the Large Hadron Collider has settled a 16-year-old bet among physicists.

Science is a constantly changing, self-correcting process. Why do we teach it as a collection of old, settled facts?

Researchers fired a laser at a gas of muonic deuterium in order to measure the size of its nucleus.

Scientists are having a difficult time finding a treatment for the Zika virus in part because so few drugs are safe for pregnant women. But one antibiotic has shown promise.

A camera lens often used by wildlife and sports photographers has helped astronomers learn about dark matter and galaxy formation.

Three physicists have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for rewriting our understanding of exotic quantum states on the surfaces of materials.

How do scientists react to major breaking science news? For astrophysicists after the big gravitational waves announcement, it was meeting for two weeks in Santa Barbara, California.

To develop new model organisms, scientists will have to find species that are easy to grow in the lab.

The first star map from the ESA’s Gaia space telescope is poised to revolutionize our understanding of the Milky Way galaxy.