An asteroid hurtling toward Earth could be deflected without a spacecraft ever touching it.

Physicist and engineer Bhavin Shastri is working to create the first photonic computer modeled after the human brain.

When biogeochemist Jacqueline Gerson first traveled there in 2017, she found herself on a boat headed downstream through the forest. As the riverbanks passed by, she observed a scenic shift. At first, ...

The neuroscientist considers themself an outsider, which allows them to embrace people who have been marginalized, including people who have HIV.

Scientists are problem solvers. They devise ways to tap new resources for building electric vehicles and to track stealth movements of environmental contaminants. Scientists are also detectives. They ...

Lithium is an essential ingredient for batteries in electric vehicles but getting enough will become a problem.

Andrea Gomez, a Berkeley molecular and cell biologist, applies her wide-ranging curiosity to brains’ mysteries ranging from synapses to psychedelics.

Theoretical physicist Tracy Slatyer proposes new scenarios for dark matter and helped discover the Fermi bubbles.

Like a steampunk fantasy-world, which pairs high-tech with an old-timey setting, Nicole Yunger Halpern melds old and new science.

The Stanford biophysicist thinks that understanding the mechanics of cell movement could allow scientists to manipulate immune cells.

The world is awash in information. Communications researcher Yotam Ophir digs into news articles and survey results to show how beliefs form and spread.

Practitioners of Ayurveda — a traditional Indian medicine system — have used the ashwagandha plant for thousands of years. These days, another group is giving the plant a fresh surge of ...