Plastic is a durable tough material that has been adopted for use in countless products. That widespread use has also led to ...

Scientists decoded basic molecular processes in metabolism, investigated premenstrual chocolate cravings, and figured out how ...

Study uncovers key insights about how a new class of antiviral drugs works. Cryo-EM images showed the drugs bound to herpes simplex virus (HSV) protein at nearly atomic detail, while optical tweezers ...

For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing ...

Scientists have uncovered new details explaining why iron oxide minerals are such effective long-term carbon traps in soils.

A newly identified class of RNA molecules has been discovered in bacteria living inside the human body. These circular ...

WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

Opioid receptors are a subset of G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs). These membrane proteins transmit signals into the cell ...

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

MIT scientists have achieved the first-ever lab synthesis of verticillin A, a complex fungal compound discovered in 1970. Its delicate structure stalled chemists for decades, despite differing from ...