Scott Paton

What if scientists could turn back the clock billions of years and watch the first stars flicker to life? There is no time machine capable of carrying us the...

For more than a century, medical imaging has transformed healthcare by giving physicians an increasingly detailed view inside the human body without surgery....

The future of artificial intelligence can seem a long way off—until someone proposes building a data center down the road. Meanwhile, the headlines pose anot...

Human ingenuity has produced technologies capable of improving life while creating problems their inventors failed to anticipate. Artificial intelligence bri...

Black holes are among the universe's great paradoxes — regions of space so dense that light itself cannot escape, yet so influential that they help shape the...

Discovery, born from a failed experiment, may now chart a path toward safer and more effective treatments for genetic disease; a great reminder that even som...

Approximately 2600 years ago, in the Middle Eastern land of Nineveh, the Assyrian king ordered the curation of what is believed to be the first library of hu...

Traditional experiments measure what happens; molecular modeling can reduce guesswork, guide physical experiments and open questions that would otherwise be ...

As supercomputing becomes more tightly woven into biomedical research, drug discovery is becoming less like trial-and-error and more like engineering, transl...

A bubble floating on the ocean looks serene — a glimmering dome of water catching the light in an iridescent sphere. But beneath that fragile beauty, powerfu...

For patients living with sickle cell disease, new insight offers something invaluable: not just understanding, but the promise that smarter, gentler treatmen...

Worldwide, opioids are also responsible for the majority of drug-related deaths. Researchers are working on a potentially life-saving measure that may be as ...

Solar panels and wind turbines increasingly dot the landscape, but the future of clean energy may well depend on how smoothly we burn hydrogen.

Picture a Northern California vineyard, rows of grapevines bathed in morning fog, workers hand-thinning vines, exposing them to sunlight, and the slow rhythm...

Ensuring that federally funded research benefits all Americans requires explicit investment in AIeducation infrastructure. Most U.S. colleges lack the specia...

In disasters like Hurricane Katrina, the trauma of losing everything someone's ever known can break them not just financially and situationally, but psycholo...

Molecules — the unseen architects that form everything from the DNA in your cells to the planets in distant galaxies, crafting the very fabric of reality whi...

From its humble origins, controlling the scourge of mosquitoes in the South to its role as one of the preeminent public health organizations in the world, th...

Tapping nature’s renewable resources is a splendid idea, but curbing our own wasteful use of energy is now a priority as well.

In 1634, a great three-masted ship named the Dove set sail from England, transporting colonists and supplies to a new settlement in North America. The vessel...