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There are at least 15 different types of solid water (ice). Now, scientists believe that there might be a second type of liquid water.

It’s not just fun: DNA origami has the potential to revolutionize engineering at the nanoscopic scale.

While ice itself is slick, slippery, and difficult to navigate across under most circumstances, skaters easily glide across the ice.

More than any other equation in physics, E = mc² is recognizable and profound. But what do we actually learn about reality from it?

Asteroid collisions aren’t always bad.

This biochemist is determined to create a new life form by reversing the shape of molecules.

“Block. It puts some writers down for months. It puts some writers down for life.”

In “Life As No One Knows It,” Sara Imari Walker explains why the key distinction between life and other kinds of “things” is how life uses information.

Is the time crystal really an otherworldly revolution, leveraging quantum computing that will change physics forever?

Symmetries aren’t just about folding or rotating a piece of paper, but have a profound array of applications when it comes to physics.

On Nov. 13, 1946, a scientist dropped crushed dry ice from a plane into supercooled stratus clouds.

Astro Mechanica’s “turboelectric” jet engines offer a way to transform both commercial flights and space launches.

A concept known as “wave-particle duality” famously applies to light. But it also applies to all matter — including you.

Due to a crust of carbon, the absence of oxygen, and constant bombardment from meteorites, the planet Mercury may be littered with diamonds.

Gods and angels have been replaced with hi-tech extraterrestrials.

Crafting an effective learning and development strategy can be challenging. Here are five key considerations.

Our Universe requires dark matter in order to make sense of things, astrophysically. Could massive photons do the trick?

Man does not live by measurement alone.

Researchers have discovered 830-million-year-old microbes living inside a salt rock on Earth. Could the same occur on Mars?

Research suggests that to maintain a healthy brain, we should tend our gut microbiome.

Figuring out the answer involved a prism, a pail of water, and a 50 year effort by the most famous father-son astronomer duo ever.

Pando is a stand of aspen in Utah that is 14,000 years old and weighs 12 million pounds. Humans threaten to end its long reign.

Skepticism is appropriate when gazing into the futurist’s crystal ball.

The ten greatest ideas in science form the bedrock of modern biology, chemistry, and physics. Everyone should be familiar with them.

A lucky discovery involving lithium-sulfur batteries has a legitimate chance to revolutionize how we power our world.

They say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. But thanks to these three pioneers in quantum entanglement, perhaps we do.

Our Universe requires dark matter in order to make sense of things, astrophysically. Could massive photons do the trick?

From wearable electronics to microscopic sensors to telemedicine, new advances like graphene and supercapacitors are bringing “impossible” electronics to life.

The drive would provide enough thrust for a spacecraft to travel near the speed of light using only electricity, says physicist Jim Woodward.

If you forgot to defrost your turkey, definitely don’t put it in a deep fryer. Every year, households all across the United States face a troubling dilemma with no good solutions: […]