A doctoral student re-created a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.

Watching proteins move as they drive the chemical reactions that sustain life is one of the grand challenges of modern ...

UC Santa Cruz team achieves synthesis of beneficial neurochemical in just two steps, promising to break a bottleneck in drug ...

Blasting meteorite samples with CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, the team found that the material "became stronger". That ...

Natural UV-protective compounds from algae are revealing unexpected biological activities. Scientists have found that certain natural compounds produced by algae and cyanobacteria may offer benefits ...

Researchers in the Raman Lab at UW recently published a study discussing sending microbes into space at the International ...

A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust ...

“We usually think of water as so benign, but when it’s divided in the form of little droplets, water is highly reactive,” ...

A team of scientists has replicated one of Thomas Edison's early experiments from his quest to make the lightbulb, but with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. pitch drop lab experiment Sometimes science can be painfully slow. Data comes in dribs and drabs, truth trickles, and veracity ...

In 1927, Albert Einstein and Neils Bohr debated the nature of what’s known as complementarity—the idea that a photon’s dual wave-like and particle natures can’t be measured at the same time. Now, two ...

A near-100-year-old debate between the theoretical physicists Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr has finally been settled—and not in the former’s favor. A team of physicists in China have realized a ...