Like many Americans, I am optimistic about the direction our country is headed. With President Trump back in the Oval Office ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton ...

Engineers have long designed robots that crawl, swim, fly, and even slither like snakes. But no robot has ever matched the ...

I love me a bio-inspired robot that pulls off challenging feats by taking cues from the natural world. University of California, Berkeley (UCB) researchers have now shown off the one-legged Salto bot ...

Two months have passed since the Trump administration froze and proposed major cuts to NIH funding, and for Pitt researchers, ...

When we think of big cats, images of majestic creatures prowling through the forest or lounging on a tree branch often come ...

Some notoriously difficult to treat infections may not be as resistant to antibiotics as has been thought, according to new research using a microfluidic device that more closely duplicates the fluid ...

A drug-resistant type of bacteria that has adapted to health care settings evolved in the past several years to weaponize an ...

Four senators at York University and a member of its academic planning and research committee are asking for a judicial ...

On a recent trip to Tennessee, I lost count of how many people told me the same strange and unusual thing about Great Smoky Mountains National Park. If you stacked up all of the park’s salamanders ...

B7, the youngest member of the North Coast's California condor flock, has died from lead poisoning after just three months in ...

Through a course in dendrology, the study of the taxonomy of woody plants in the absence of flowers or fruits, two experts in ...