Well-preserved ancient plants and other finds at the Clarkia fossil beds hint at what kind of evidence any Martian life may have left behind.
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Within the next few decades, we may well have hard evidence for the existence of alien life on worlds light-years distant from Earth.
“When molecules misbehave, it can lead to great insight.”
Simple physics makes hauling vast ice chunks thousands of miles fiendishly difficult — but not impossible.
In December 2022, a company called BioAge Labs published findings on a drug that worked to prevent muscular atrophy, or the loss of muscle strength and mass, in older people.
The emergence of life in the universe is as certain as the emergence of matter, gravity, and the stars. Life is the universe developing a memory, and our chemical detection system could find it.
One of the winners. Dr. K. Barry Sharpless, is now the fifth person in history to win two Nobels.
Scientists are still figuring out why tirzepatide causes weight loss. One theory is that they “accidentally” created a new hormone.
What kind of object will you form? What will its fate be? How long will a star live? Almost everything is determined by mass alone.
Growing evidence suggests a link between the debilitating neurological illness and the microbes that live in our intestines. The vagus nerve may be a pathway.
It’s an agricultural moonshot: Scientists hope to increase plant yields by hacking photosynthesis, the process that powers life on Earth.
Cancer cells hoard iron in unusually high quantities. Scientists have discovered how to leverage this to create safer cancer drugs.
Finding this missing piece of water’s path through the universe offers clues to how it came to be on Earth.
When you bring two fingers together, you can feel them “touch” each other. But are your atoms really touching, and if so, how?
Stars are born, live, and die within the spiral arms of galaxies like the Milky Way. These 19 JWST spirals deliver unprecedented riches.
“Lac-Phe” grants obese mice the benefits of exercise — without exercising. But don’t expect an “exercise pill.”
Crystallization is an entirely random process, so scientists have developed clever ways to investigate it at a molecular level.
At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?
Life is possible because of asymmetries, such as an imbalance between matter and antimatter and the “handedness” (chirality) of molecules.
2023 is an exciting time for the study of quark-gluon plasmas.
The plant-like sea creatures contain a molecule that improves memory, learning, and even hair quality, according to a new study in mice.
Undeterred by years of failure, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman proved that mRNA is the future of vaccines.
The intensely white coloration of the shrimp is a remarkable feat of bioengineering.
The technology could yield “made-to-order resistance genes” to protect crops against pathogens and pests.
AI was key to making Moderna’s COVID mRNA vaccine. Its role in mRNA therapeutics will rapidly grow in the coming years.
By probing the Universe on atomic scales and smaller, we can reveal the entirety of the Standard Model, and with it, the quantum Universe.
The chemistry of cooking over an open flame.
The high pitches from the flute and the harp would reach your ears before the notes from the tuba and the cello.