Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Wen Zhu has earned the Maximizing Investigators' Research Award, or MIRA, ...

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Plastic is an essential material in the modern world, but it's also environmentally costly to produce and a major pollutant.

Cambridge scientists built a two-part cancer drug that activates only in tumors with high enzyme levels, showing promise in ...

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A collection of short dispatches from the field of climate microbiology conveys the contributions that single-celled life ...

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Researchers have revealed a previously unknown way plants shape their growth in response to light—a breakthrough that could ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? A recent ...

Excess fat in brain immune cells weakens defenses against Alzheimer’s. Blocking fat storage restored their ability to fight disease. For many years, scientists believed that fat in the brain had ...