Michael Calzadilla and colleagues describe a violent black hole outburst that provides new insight into galaxy cluster evolution.

MIT graduate student Seth Cazzell shows controlling pH enables reversible hydrogel formation in wider range of metal concentrations.

Polymer may pave the way for drugs to which bacteria are significantly less resistant, a breakthrough that could save hundreds of thousands of lives per year.

Technique may help remotely image and assess health of infants, burn victims, and accident survivors in hard-to-reach places.

Method concentrates radionuclides in a small portion of a nuclear plant’s wastewater, allowing the rest to be recycled.

Using limited data, this automated system predicts a company’s quarterly sales.

Specialized dye, delivered along with a vaccine, could enable “on-patient” storage of vaccination history.

An immune molecule sometimes produced during infection can influence the social behavior of mice.

Biologists devise an efficient method to prepare fluorescently tagged proteins and simulate their native environment.

A molecule that’s known for its smelly and poisonous nature on Earth may be a sure-fire sign of extraterrestrial life.