Not all stars are created equally. Astronomers believe that the first stars to form after the Big Bang were mostly made of ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Findings of the Cancer Research UK-funded TORPEdO trial presented at the American Society of Radiation Oncology Annual Meeting. Results show that proton beam therapy delivers similar results to ...

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 ...