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

Andrea Richard receives funding from the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration.

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

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 ...

Scientists are exploring how RNA might have jump-started life four billion years ago and how it's now advancing drug ...

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

A single speck of light—captured inside a lab at Oxford—turned the abstract into the tangible. It didn’t just win a prize; it showed that we ...

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

Explore the crazy implications of a universe where protons never decay! From eternal atoms to the degenerate era, this video dives deep into the distant future of everything.

"This is the moment where the metal detector has gone off and you've dug up something shiny. You still need to find out ...