Some fascinating observations of K2-18b have come along with horrendous, speculative communications. There’s no evidence for oceans or life.
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From quarks and gluons to giant galaxy clusters, everything that exists in our Universe is determined by what is (and isn’t) bound together.
With a massive, charged nucleus orbited by tiny electrons, atoms are such simple objects. Miraculously, they make up everything we know.
A secret to a long, healthy life may lie in the diversity of gut viruses, which can supercharge bacterial metabolism and resist disease.
ChatGPT’s capabilities are astonishing.
The visible Universe extends 46.1 billion light-years from us, while we’ve probed scales down to as small as ~10^-19 meters.
Earth is the Solar System’s only known inhabited planet. Could Venus, if its phosphine signal is real, be our second world with life?
It’s safe to use your face cream, as long as you aren’t eating it.
While one may be helpful, the other may be harmful.
It weakens the bacteria so that the immune system can destroy it.
Drop sodium in water, and a violent, even explosive reaction will occur. But quantum physics is needed to explain why.
When we feel sick, it’s not just the pathogen to blame. Our brain cranks up the temperature, and the neurons responsible finally have been found.
Get the most out of your coffee.
By studying the oldest animals, researchers hope to pinpoint factors affecting human longevity.
All across the Universe, planets come in a wide variety of sizes, masses, compositions, and temperatures. And most have rain and snow.
Quantum uncertainty and wave-particle duality are big features of quantum physics. But without Pauli’s rule, our Universe wouldn’t exist.
A two-dimensional material made entirely of carbon called graphene won the Nobel Prize in 2010. Graphyne might be even better.
Should we be searching for life on other planets, or technology?
One hypothesis says that sleep helps “clean” the brain of damaged molecules and toxic proteins.
Perhaps the most remarkable fact about the Universe is simply that it, and everything in it, exists. But what’s the reason why?
Science is for everyone, even those possessing strongly held beliefs that seem to conflict with the best available evidence.
The very dust that blocks our view of the distant, luminous objects in the Universe is responsible for our entire existence.
The discovery has enormous implications for the development of novel anti-anxiety medications.
Up until 2002, we thought that the heaviest stable element was bismuth: #83 on the periodic table. That’s absolutely no longer the case.
Inside the “out there” quest for a drug that would help doctors save lives before it’s too late.
Origin of life studies have always focused on a set of strict environments that could give rise to life. Ante-life opens new possibilities.
Antisense oligonucleotide therapy uses small molecules to alter RNA. Researchers have now used those molecules to alleviate a genetic form of blindness.
Asymmetric organocatalysis is an environmentally friendly way of accelerating chemical reactions and creating specific types of molecules.
For over three decades, toxic proteins were believed to cause Alzheimer’s disease. However, recent studies suggest it might be metabolic reprogramming.