In a first-of-its-kind breakthrough, a team of researchers has developed an artificial adhesion system that closely mimics natural biological interactions. Their research focuses on understanding how ...

A new study is the first to show that living organisms can be persuaded to make silicon-carbon bonds--something only chemists had done before. Scientists have "bred" a bacterial protein to have the ...

You may not remember much from high school chemistry, but you probably recall learning the fundamental lesson that carbon, the quintessential element of life, can form four bonds with other molecules.

Are friendships formed with those we truly like? Or do we settle for whoever happens to be around? This question is hard to answer in humans, and even harder in other animals. But a new study of ...

The myth of the irreconcilably divided worlds of art and science is still alive. But it’s nonsense, says Joan Weinstein, director of the Getty Foundation – the two have always been intertwined. She ...