The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog contends that curiosity-driven research helps us understand the world and could lead to unexpected benefits.

Not all plants can be stored in a seed bank. Cryopreservation offers an alternative, but critics question whether this form of conservation will work.

Private listening out in the open is possible thanks to acoustic metasurfaces that precisely bend and direct sound waves.

Two preventive tools — a maternal vaccine and a monoclonal antibody — were tied to a recent drop in RSV hospitalization rates for U.S. babies.

Orange cats are so goofy that people joke that the chaotic kitties share one communal brain cell. But most of these domestic felines — along with multicolored calicos and tortoiseshells ...

Fluoride supplements have been used in the United States for decades and have proven to be safe and effective for decreasing cavities.

Screening for cervical cancer many soon be possible within the privacy of your own home. On May 9, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the Teal Wand, a tamponlike tool people can use to ...

Wavelike patterns in 115-million-year-old amber suggest that a long-ago tsunami inundated what is now northern Japan, researchers report May 15 in Scientific Reports. Tsunamis can be destructive ...