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 ...

The detection of the molecule phosphine in a brown dwarf’s atmosphere may help astronomers in their search for life elsewhere ...

The 49ers offense will be without five Week 1 starters on Thursday night. Thursday night might prove too much for the 49ers’ offense, which will now be without Purdy, Kittle, Jennings, Pearsall, and ...

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 ...