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Friendship isn't a tit-for-tat balance sheet, but that's how researchers have traditionally defined it. New studies are refining the model to be less about transactions and truer to real life.

Just a gram of these tiny crystals can have an internal surface area as big as a soccer field. A materials expert explains the almost magical chemistry of MOFs.

The discovery that superconducting circuits can behave like quantum particles was a revolutionary development in the field of quantum technologies.

The triple whammy of deep staff cuts, shutdown furloughs and the expiration of an information-sharing law leaves national cybersecurity in a perilous state.

Your DNA contains millions of genetic variants that interact with each other in ways that affect whether diseases such as schizophrenia and heart disease develop, and with what severity.

Regulatory T cells help your immune system distinguish between 'self' and 'nonself' - and can open doors to better treatments for cancer, autoimmune disease and transplant rejection.

Space weather isn't referring to rain clouds that float through the galaxy. Instead, it's caused by massive explosions of particles that shoot out from the Sun.

Virtual particles may not be real, but they help physicists track how forces move, and allow for incredibly precise measurements in particle physics.

The federal government is more likely to fund curiosity-driven basic research, while industry is more likely to support research that has a clearer eventual payoff.

By cranking up the difficulty on the test task, researchers found that children are capable of finding systematic solutions to complex problems far earlier than psychologists had believed.