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There are over 100 known elements in the periodic table. These 8 ways of making them account for every one.
Yorkicystis lived during the “Cambrian explosion,” 539 million to 485 million years ago – hundreds of million years before the dinosaurs.
Purely physical and chemical processes can deceive us into thinking that life is present, when it actually is not.
Scientists discover surviving viruses in 15,000-year-old glacier ice on the Tibetan Plateau in China.
If you put very fine black powder powder in a confined space it explodes in a cloud of heat, gas and noise.
These were the stories you clicked on the most.
A conversation with an advanced alien species is likely to be simple and to take 1,000 years. It might also be dangerous.
One award was for a medical procedure that incapacitated thousands of people.
Scientists find that an RNA-DNA mix may have created the first life on our planet.
If love is an addiction, your first love is the first dose.
Using DNA from samples of extinct flowers, synthetic biologists managed to approximate long-lost floral scents.
The false assumption the Multiverse relies on is that something which exists requires an explanation.
The author of Frankenstein had an obsession with the cemetery and saw love and death as connected.
Scientists do not know what is causing the overabundance of the gas.
Three cutting-edge techniques – the gene-editing tool CRISPR, fluorescent proteins and optogenetics – were all inspired by nature.
From Aristotle’s lazy cosmology to Immanuel Kant’s “scientific” racism, great minds are not immune to very bad ideas.
It’s not a huge leap to imagine we could target the biological processes that mediate our behaviours.
An innovation’s value is found between the technophile’s promises and the Luddite’s doomsday scenarios.
Now they’re pointing the way to future battery technologies.
It’s been 100 years since we discovered that the Universe was expanding. But if it’s expanding, then what is it expanding into?
The English writer left behind a mind-expanding collection of books.
An important step toward figuring out our space station future.
One day, we could fly across the U.S. in half an hour. A state-of-the-art hypersonic flight testing facility at UTSA could help make that dream a reality.
When you’re a genius, how do you make ends meet?
Scientists are finding tumor signals in spit that could be key to developing diagnostic tests for various types of cancer.
With a finite 13.8 billion years having passed since the Big Bang, there’s an edge to what we can see: the cosmic horizon. What’s it like?