Earth's atmosphere might have contributed to the origin of life more than previously thought. In a study published in the ...

While daydreaming on a bus, and then while dozing by the fireside, Auguste Kekulé realized that carbon atoms can combine into ...

High-precision laser spectroscopy measurements on the thorium-229 nucleus could reveal new physics, say TU Wien physicists ...

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

Over three days in November 1995, climate scientists and IPCC government delegates convened in the Palacio de Congresos in ...

India had the wherewithal in the previous decade to help crack an important scientific mystery, but now China has surged ahead ...

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

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 ...

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

Karin Tanabe and Victoria Kelly explore the ramifications of atomic bombings on Japan in their documentary, "Atomic Echoes," streaming on PBS. (Beatrice Becette for Blue Chalk Media) Michas Ohnstad ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan — Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging survivors expressing frustration about the growing ...