Shutterstock The formation of stars is a festinating process that involves massive amounts of dust and gas slowly coming ...

Leo Gross is a physicist who has devoted his career to studying the fundamental secrets of chemistry—that is, how atoms and molecules behave and interact with one another. As leader of IBM’s atom and ...

Fresh “complex organic molecules” have been spotted coming out of a nearby moon that scientists believe could be home to ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 of them on an asteroid millions of miles away. The asteroid in question, ...

Complex organic molecules that form part of the chain of chemical reactions that can result in life's building blocks have ...

It was exactly two decades ago that the Cassini mission discovered that underneath the surface of Enceladus, one of the icy ...

The movement within supramolecular assemblies is critical to their biological activity, including their ability to regenerate cartilage and repair spinal cord damage. The finding suggests that ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...