Hailed as one of the 50 most important women in science, she found ways to study rare radioactive isotopes and advanced the ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

Irene Curie was born in Paris, France, in 1897. In an unusual schooling setup, Irene was one of a group of children taught by ...

Virtual particles may not be real, but they help physicists track how forces move, and allow for incredibly precise ...

The adage goes “like mother like daughter,” and in the case of Irene Joliot-Curie, truer words were never spoken. She was the ...

Researchers from the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and CIBER-BBN, in collaboration with teams from the ...

In a new study, scientists have shown that chemical receptors that plants use to recognize nitrogen-fixing bacteria have ...

Low nitrogen availability is the number one limitation to plant growth in most ecosystems. Plants in the bean family and other closely related families evolved a symbiotic relationship with bacteria ...

Can you imagine falling 10,000 meters (33,000 ft) from a plane, being trapped underwater for days or surviving a massive radioactive discharge? All this seems like a death sentence, but today you’re ...

Nicholas Spada is one of the only scientists in the world using a nuclear x-ray process to study deadly nanoparticles in ...

The biological study of species offers no equivalent to such transmutation. An individual which belongs to a given species ...