Despite being one of the most familiar substances on Earth, water holds many secrets that scientists are still working to ...

Discover how scientists used advanced tools to confirm Jackson Pollock's use of manganese blue in his iconic painting.

Discover how scientists used advanced tools to confirm Jackson Pollock's use of manganese blue in his iconic painting.

That’s precisely why Timothy Brewster, an organometallic chemist at the University of Memphis, thought it would be best to ...

Let’s say you boil one litre of tap water in a kettle in the morning, and your tap water has a fluoride content of 1mg per litre. You make a cup of tea taking 200ml of the boiled water. You then make ...

Open Molecules 2025, an unprecedented dataset of molecular simulations, has been released to the scientific community, paving the way for the development of machine learning tools that can accurately ...

An enduring challenge for the commercialization of genetic therapies is delivering the therapeutic molecules to the proper destination within the body. Viruses are natural delivery systems for nucleic ...

We know Earth formed roughly 4.54 billion years ago and that the first single cell lifeforms were present roughly 1 billion years after that. What we don’t know is what triggered the process that ...

Earth, in its infancy, offered all the elements needed to construct life. But they couldn’t just assemble themselves into biology’s building blocks. That process, called prebiotic synthesis, required ...

As soon as the end of February, NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will launch a new telescope into orbit around the Earth called SPHEREx. Its goal is to examine nothing less than the essential ...

Terrestrial planets like Earth form when interstellar dust coalesces to form a rocky core. Though much of Earth’s crust is made up of inorganic minerals rich in elements such as oxygen, aluminum, and ...