We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints that poorly understood prions may have been the vital missing ingredient ...

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 ...

When Vladimir Putin put his country's nuclear forces on "special" alert shortly after invading Ukraine, he effectively raised the specter of nuclear war—a threat not heard of since the end of the Cold ...

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 ...

There are no rows of white crosses along the Satsuma Peninsula or victory memorials dotting Kagoshima Bay. No markers at beaches on Kyushu bearing names of American car brands — Buick, Cadillac, Stutz ...