Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of "proto Earth," which formed about 4.5 billion ...

Unstable atoms emit fast-moving particles that can damage cells in the human body. Some atoms are far more unstable than ...

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

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

In a new study, scientists have shown that chemical receptors that plants use to recognize nitrogen-fixing bacteria have developed the same function independently on at least three separate occasions ...

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 ...

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

Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, stellar formation and galaxy evolution.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has announced a new way to reliably make element 116, livermorium. The results, made by using a titanium beam to irradiate a sample, could point toward the ...

There is usually one bit of genomic DNA in a bacterial cell that encodes for most of its functions, but bacteria can carry other bits of genetic material like plasmids, which could carry a gene for ...

Black Ops 6 Season 5 offered a boatload of content at launch, from new weapons like the ABR A1 to the arrival of 6v6 maps like W.M.D. and Exchange. However, the Reckoning may be the biggest addition ...

An optical Illusion is a visual trick where our eyes and brain perceive different images from reality. These illusions are a type of visual puzzle in which these puzzles creates a misleading effect on ...