A chance discovery at Nagoya University in Japan has shown that a well-known brain enzyme has a hidden ability: It builds a ...

A machine learning-powered simulation is giving researchers a new window into the processes that create some of the universe’s heaviest elements.

Silver iodide is an electrical insulator, which rules out most surface-imaging tools that rely on electrons or ions. The team turned instead to noncontact atomic force microscopy, which reads the ...

The formation of continental crust is a major unresolved question in Earth science. Volcanic arcs, such as the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, are thought to be an important source of new continental ...