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The isotopic ratio of sulfur-33 on the moon differs from that of Earth. Did the moon's sulfur instead come from the impactor ...

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer ...

Researchers found a surprising way to solve the biggest problem with hydrogen fuel cells — using a common material, clay, ...

A comet discovered earlier this year, now just bright enough to be visible to the naked eye, is poised to be among the top ...

For the first time, by studying quantum correlations between triplets of secondary particles created during high-energy ...

In 1992, three physicists began an argument about how many numbers we need to fully describe the universe. Their surprisingly ...

MIT researchers found that metals retain hidden atomic patterns once believed to vanish during manufacturing. These patterns ...

The weak nuclear force doesn't play by the normal rules — and, in fact, it breaks one of the biggest rules of all.

Jim Sanborn is auctioning off the solution to Kryptos, the puzzle he sculpted for the intelligence agency’s headquarters. Two ...

Scientists from NASA and Chalmers University have discovered that incompatible substances can mix on Titan’s icy surface, ...

Quantum information systems, systems that process, store or transmit information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could ...