Two bacteriologists showed that mutations arise spontaneously in bacterial cultures, thereby disproving Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ...

Matter with “forbidden” symmetries was once thought to be confined to lab experiments, but is now being found in some of the ...

Aluminum has long been treated as a workhorse metal, valued for its light weight and corrosion resistance rather than any ...

Google's tool for predicting how proteins “fold” turns 5 this year. How is it fitting into biological research—and where is ...

Apollo samples provide evidence: Researchers analyzed Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions and, for the first time, ...

If so, laws might change when the universe itself changes phase. In the early universe, as temperatures and densities shifted, forces split apart from a unified origin. What we call “laws” may be like ...

When visiting the towns of Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland, remnants of the war are clear as the legacy of the atomic bomb ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed visitor, reveals shocking data: high nickel content and unique cryovolcanism ...

New film Hamnet, named for Shakespeare’s son, is a tender backstory to his seminal play Hamlet; meet the production designer ...

Scientists are intrigued by how gold nuggets form, often tucked in quartz veins. The process seems to involve earthquakes and ...

Natalia Khodemchuk, the widow of the first victim of the 1986 nuclear disaster, died from the impact of a Shahed strike on ...

Transmission electron microscopes (TEMs) have been advancing our knowledge of the very small for nearly 100 years. Since their advent, they have helped scientists see structures as small as individual ...